DS is 2.6.
Always been a naturally appalling sleeper (but luckily really easy going in the day!). Have done CC with him as a young toddler then rapid return as a bigger toddler, once he was in a bed. That had ironed out the worst of it, though early mornings were unavoidable.
These last 2 months he's been staying awake and whingeing for up to an hour once he's in bed (I've been going in every 10 minutes, tucking him back in & only saying 'goodnight' etc then walking out after 2 minutes max). He'll the wake at 11, then up to five more times after that, every hourish/hour and a half for no obvious reason. I can't seem to figure out why or get him to stop and am desperately tired 
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong or what worked for you? Is it a phase I need to just wait out? Dreading the nights at the moment and can't do anything as well as usual as I've not slept a whole night in weeks. Pretty sure it's affecting him too...
THANK YOU!
AIBU?
to need someone to come and tell me where I'm going wrong?
BenedictCumberbitch · 30/07/2013 18:18
Better than expected, thanks.
He woke up once and did fight it on/off for an hour but that was it 
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Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind though. He seems better behaved today just because he only woke half as many times as usual, despite the long protest at that 11pm waking.
The night light is verrrrrrrrry dim and if I leave him in the total dark he screams the second he wakes up and seems genuinely terrified, as it is literally pitch black where we live.
It's always worst when he's come back from his dads too (he stays there one night every fortnight). He's not naturally clingy or insecure though and it only ever lasts that following night before he seems back to 'normal' 
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