Am really hoping someone can help.
My DS was previously a very good sleeper, going to bed around 7.30pm and sleeping til about 8am. We'd had a few issues with him being not tired enough at bedtime so had started reducing his daytime nap and had cut it out most days. If he has no nap he is exhausted by 6.30pm/7.00pm and falls straight to sleep and was having 12-13hours.
However, he has been using the potty and not wearing a nappy in the day for a few weeks now, and for the past 2 weeks he has been waking up early, taking his nappy off and shouting for the potty. In addition over the past week he has learnt how to climb out of his cot.
I've started putting his potty in his room and he will get up and use it, but then knocks on his door to get up. This can be anytime from 5.00am onwards. If I put him back to bed he's up again the minute I leave the room. We tried him the other night with the bars off his cot, but he just jumped around and refused to settle down and eventually he asked for the bars back on (although I had let him have a nap that day so without a nap he might have settled down as would have been so tired).
So can people please advise, I feel I have the following options:
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Move him into a big boys' bed, leave his potty available and hope he might settle back into bed after having a wee in the morning Would have to continue with no daytime nap for this to be an option.
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Move him into a travel cot we have which is too high for him to escape from, but I think he would just remove his nappy and then not be able to get to potty and probably wet the bed and get upset so probably a non-starter.
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Carry on as we are, with no daytime sleep, and hope it's just s brief phase that will magically end.
4)Let him have an hour's sleep in the day and then a later bedtime (say 8pm?) in the hope he'll sleep in longer in the morning.
Any other suggestions will be very gratefully received
TIA
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