If you co sleep I'd like some advice please

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Only co sleepers need answer - thanks ☺️

15 month old is going through a 'I won't go to sleep' phase. It's driving me bonkers.

We had a really good sleep routine up until a couple of weeks ago now it's just gone haywire.

We used to get in bed at 6pm, have stories for 30
Mins then snuggles until he fell asleep at 7pm (practically on the dot every night) then I'd a week away until I was ready for bed.

Now we go to bed at 6pm and he's like a baby possessed running around like crazy, up and down and in and out of bed constantly. Taking him until 8ish to get to sleep.
I know we altered the clocks but I've been getting him up earlier to compensate.

I'm getting really irritated by it now !

Both of my boys did his. I think its when they realised that they were a bit more independent, trying to communicate and started to get an imagination. My eldest use to spend ages doing gymnastics and physical things that he had learn that day and my now 22 month old would spend hours putting his teddies to bed, pointing to things in the room and making me pretend cups of tea.
With both of them it lasted a few months although they are draining. With the younger one, we have made his bedtime later but I have older children so it's not a big deal and I don't want to shorten his naps, even with older children we both still need him to have them.

It seems to be the norm in the UK to let the kids drop the nap when they first start trying to. In other countries it’s considered a sleep regression and most people push through it and reestablish the nap within a week or two; kids typically nap until aged 3 or 4 and they have naps in their first year at school.