HELP!! My toddler won't sleep

[MummyAndSon17]

Ok my son was always a good sleeper, used to go off with no problem then not wake up until about 8am.
Since October he's been waking up in the night and will only go to sleep if he's in his pram. (He's 1yo)
I've tried everything I can think of, bath before bed, soft blanket and a cuddle with a bottle, putting him to bed later, giving him something small to eat before bed, cut down his day time naps. I even went as far as spraying a bit of my perfume in his cot to see if it'll trick him into thinking he was in my bed. NOTHING'S WORKED!!
His behaviour aswell is getting too naughty but this whole not sleeping is getting too much for me now. He'll wake up inbetween 3-4am and not go back to sleep till 6 or 7am. And moan and cry for those hours that he's awake.
Last night he was awake from 1am till 5am then he woke me up at 6. I'm beyond exhausted and I'm fed up with having to sleep on the sofa cos he'll only sleep in the pram.
Please help.

My only bit of sleeping advice I can offer is cosleep.

I've tired co sleeping out of desperation but that doesn't work either

I think you need to choose another method and stick it out. Maybe at a time when you have support but you are going to have to go cold turkwy with the buggy.

You say you've decreased his daytime naps... How about going the other way? My 19mo has always needed lots of sleep in the day, and a very late nap - an hour at 4.30, then tea, and bed at 7. Maybe try that?

How old is your DS exactly, in months? There are sleep regressions at 12 and 18 months that can send sleep haywire.

Do you think he could be teething? Incisors and molars can be very painful when they come through and cause night waking.

Also, does your DS have naps plural? And what time are they? It sounds like he has more than one from what you wrote. If so, and if this has been consistently going on for a while (you mentioned October), it might be time to cut down from two to one.

Either way, you need to try and wean him off the buggy for your own sanity. If co-sleeping doesn't work for you (it hasn't for me either) then it might be worth trying a gradual withdrawal method for sleep time, or controlled crying if you can stomach it. But have a think about these other questions first.

@Neighneigh
That's exactly my son's routine. That 4pm nap is the one I stopped him having because I thought it was too close to bed time

@cluelessmummy
He's 17 months now so this has been going on since he was about 9 months old.
He has 2-3 naps a day, one in the morning before lunch One after lunch then used to have one about 4pm but I've cut that one out due to it being so close to bed time.
He's started getting his back teeth but he doesn't seem to be in pain with them. He just bites when he's having a tantrum

I'd consider going to the GP due to the length of time it's been going on, the frequency it's happening and the duration he's awake for.

All babies are different of course, but even at 9 months my DD would refuse bedtime or be very wakeful if she napped any later than 3pm for a 7.30-8pm bedtime or any more than 2 hours 30 minutes of nap time spread over the day. At 17 months we switched to a one nap day (12-2.15pm). I wouldn't advise switching to that straight away but it does sound like your DS might be using his day sleep to catch up on his lack of night sleep, and you are probably going to have to break that cycle, even if it's very incrementally, to see any changes.