I'm afraid I've got into very bad habits with my son and getting him to sleep. It can take up to an hour to settle him in the evening - I have to sit on the floor next to his bed and hold his hand til he drifts off, or he's on my knee. We have a good routine of bath, milk, teeth, then books but then he can't settle himself to sleep at all.
He also wakes up in the night. Every night. It varies from 10.30 to 1ish, very occasionally he'll go through til 4ish. He won't go back off in his own bed and insists on coming in with me or his dad (we have a spare room so we don't all have to squish in the one bed). He will go back to sleep then but then his squirming and talking means we very often don't sleep well when we're in with him. And when we have guests, DP is relegated to the sofa!
All in all, far from ideal. He still has a nap; doesn't take quite so long to settle him in the afternoon but I still can't leave him to it. We're ttc number 2 so we could really do with getting this sorted. We'd also like our evenings back - when I'm at work, I sometimes don't get to eat til 9pm after settling him! I recently got the baby whisperer book but it only seems to address baby sleep issues, not entrenched bad habits in 2-year-olds. What can I do? Please help!
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MsTea · 11/10/2015 19:59
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