I’m honestly at my wits end and I’ve no clue what to do.
My 3.5 year old son has started refusing to go to bed. It’s escalated from story cuddle sleep on his own, to needing an extra cuddle, to needing the light on and now to full screaming tantruming and keeping himself awake. Won’t stay in the bed, literally runs at the door as your trying to leave the room. Even if we lie with him to let him fall asleep, he won’t sleep. Today he’s come off the back of not going to bed until 10pm (with me in tow) last night and then waking every hour ( no exaggeration) to make sure I was still there. He tried to go to sleep in soft play today he was that tired but come bed time he refused to go to sleep, DH lay in bed with him for an hour and son decided he was getting back up and just climbed right over the top of DH and downstairs.
We have tried what feels like everything and short of tying him to the bed we’re at a loss at what we can do. We are all exhausted and grumpy.
He has had quite a lot of change recently and we know this has caused it. We had our second son nearly 10months ago, they shared a room (Baby currently sleeping in a travel cot at the bottom of our bed due to this), he’s also started a new nursery this week but we didn’t have any choice with that one, although this has been happening for the past 3/4 months but doubt it’s helped!
Please can someone suggest something we can do to try and help him. I’m quickly losing my sanity!