DS has always been a pretty good sleeper but a few days ago he woke up about 4 am, and had obviously had a nightmare or something. I slept through it, DH got up and tried to settle him for an hour then brought him into our bed.
BIG mistake.
Now DS is a PITA to get to sleep at night, and wakes multiple times crying and saying he 'hates' his bed. He can't say why, he has a speech disorder, but when I ask him if he had a nightmare he says 'yes'. We've explained that nightmares aren't real and he has a nightlight beside his bed, it doesn't seem to help.
This morning at around 3am, I dragged his spare cotbed mattress to the other side of the room and put him on that. He was okay for about 15 mins then started crying again saying he 'hated his room'.
I am NOT changing rooms around again, I've only just recovered from the last room swap, and who's to say he won't 'hate' that too, but has anyone got any suggestions?
I was thinking that broken nights were behind us now, but it seems not.