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Help! My son won't sleep

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Nc1468 · 17/05/2022 20:25

My first post for a while so please bare with me!

My son is 2.5, almost 3. As a baby he was an amazing sleeper, but as he's got older he's got worse and worse.

We've recently cut his daytime nap out completely as 1. Was a massive battle to get him to go and 2. In the hopes he would sleep better.

So we've tried cutting it out, and before this tried playing around with the timings of the nap, but nothing seems to help.

Almost every night, we have every excuse under the sun as to why he doesn't want to go to bed. When we finally get him to bed he goes absolutely insane, screaming and inconsolable. He has a dummy for nighttime only, teddies that he uses for comfort, a gro clock which has a light on and he asks for his nursery rhymes on which he's always had so I'm at a loss. On average it takes about 90 mins to get him to sleep and it's absolutely exhausting. We have a 15 month old too and I'm anxious of him waking her too.

Not only is it difficult to get him to sleep, but he very rarely stays asleep. On average I'd say 2-3 times one of us goes in and has to put him back to bed. We're drained and none of us are getting any sleep.

Don't know what I want from this, but any advice would be appreciated 🤞

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