DS is a sleep refuser. He sleeps fine and doesn't usually wake once he's eventually given in. But getting him to surrender to it is getting harder and harder. It now takes up to 2 hours to get him to nap and on average 4 hours to get him to sleep in the evenings.
He usually goes down (falls down more like) between 11pm-1am at night. Wakes about 8-10am, grumpy and tired. He then flops about the house whinging for 2 hours and used to go down for a nap waking for lunch all happy. But now he wont even go for his nap. It is 1.38pm here and i have been trying to get him to nap since 11.30am.
I just don't know what to do. He wont lay down or be held. He arches his back screaming and scratching/punching at my face. He is a big boy and very strong.
We co sleep so i don't have a cot to put him in and we don't do CC.
I used to be able to sing and rock him to sleep but the last few weeks it's getting harder and now seems impossible.
Any suggestions gratefully received. I seem to spend the entire day trying to get him to sleep. He loves the baby drop ins but is usually sleeping late or too tired/grizzly to go.
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MrsKoala · 14/10/2013 21:45
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