DS just turned 2. He's never been a great sleeper, but he'd been doing really well for a while now. But for the last two weeks it's like he's scared of his cot. He won't go down for naps or nighttime on his own - he screams if you leave him and will only be cuddled to sleep. Then he wakes in the night and is awake for literally hours. We've tried cuddling him, we've tried sitting next to the cot rubbing his back, we've tried bringing him into bed with us. He eventually falls asleep after being up for 2+ hours. Last night it was 12:30-4am he was awake. Then he's obviously cranky and exhausted all day, making my typically lovely cuddling baby a miserable nightmare.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd welcome them. But also just think I needed to vent as it's really effecting DH and I now. We're both exhausted and cranky ourselves. And I'm feeling like an absolute failure of a mum that I can't make it better.