Please help have lost the plot.

[SleepySheep]

My DS has just turned one and been quite a good sleeper. He still has a short nap in the morning and a longer one just after lunch.

Since Christmas Day he has refused to sleep in his cot at night and will scream until he chokes and which point I put him in his buggy and he's asleep in seconds. He naps during the day quite happily in his cot, it's just at night. I try and transfer him back to his cot when I go up to bed, but am always woken again around 1am. Last night after letting him grumble (not actually cry)for 50 minutes he actually went to sleep in his cot. This lasted until 1am.

Has anyone had similar problems or suggest any solutions?

Thank you!

Oh poor you. M DD refused to sleep in her cotbed one day and would only sleep in the car - cue 40 mile hikes across the countryside in the car, only for her to wake up 90% of the time when we got home. Perhaps you could try cutting down naps to one per day so that he is tired-er by bedtime?

Thanks for replying. On the 3 days he's at nursery and at my mums he only has one nap and doesn't make any difference to night time! Little buggar!!

I'd be looking at what is different between daytime naps and bedtime first? Is it dark when he has his daytime naps? Are there different things in the cot? is he wearing different clothes? sleeping bag? Are there different toys there?

He sleeps in the same - pjs and a sleeping bag, the cot is the same, same sheep with him......it is darker at a night time and I do give him his milk while reading a story in his room....?!?!?

does he seem stressed about going to bed sleepysheep or do you think he is just playing up? What about if someone else puts him to bed?

Mine wouldn't stay in their cots at all tonight, little toerags have only just gone down. Ended up putting a million soft blankets in the lounge and letting them conk out in their own good time on the floor, like baby badgers in their nest. Hopefully if we don't get too focused and worried about these things they will iron out in the end (just a phase etc etc?) here's hoping Is your sleep problem persisting same each night?

We thought he was playing up, but some nights he just screams and other nights he's fine. But then he wakes screaming between 12-3am and fighting as if he's in pain or scared. Perhaps it's teething? Though his dad got night terrors when he was little and someone told me they're hereditory? I have a parents evening tomorrow so we'll see if its the same With daddy putting him to bed.........

Thank you for all you replies x