Hi everyone,
My son has always been a low sleep needs child and we’ve always struggled with his sleep. When he was 15/16m old we got a sleep consultant and it was amazing, for around 1.5 month he started sleeping through the night and going to sleep without his bottle after some schedule changes.
I work away a lot, and in September I had a really busy month working abroad in Europe which led to me being away for 2-3 nights each week. He was great throughout with my husband and my parents, but as soon as I returned from the final trip he was beside himself with separation anxiety (the final trip was actually also with my husband so we were both away). Night sleeping became very troublesome again. We got in touch with our sleep consultant again after 2w of bad sleep and she said it sounded like separation anxiety and to sleep on his floor until he got better. I did that for 2 further weeks but he didn’t get any better unfortunately.
It’s now over a month since his sleep has been poor again. We’ve moved him into a new warmer bedroom, we’ve moved him to a double floor bed and taken him out the cot. Nothing seems to be working, he takes forever to get to sleep just rolling around and murmuring and then when he does get to sleep he wakes up at least twice in the night and needs one of us there next to him. So I end up in his bed multiple times a night and it’s very disruptive.
This is our current schedule;
6:45/7:00 wake
12:00 90 min nap (although I’m writing this at 12:20 and he’s still rolling around)
19:00 bedtime routine
20;00 asleep
Any advice would be amazing!