at what age did your 'worst' sleeper finally get better?!

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Am prepared to be thoroughly depressed by some responses but need some hope...!

My 2.4 year old's sleep pattern is as follows:

• fall asleep somewhere between 830 and 915pm after being laid with on his floor or our bed for around an hour (plus the usual wash/bath/milk and stories beforehand) We have never left him to cry and don't want to as he gets so upset.

• wake sometime between midnight and 3am and come into our (double, not king unfortunately!) bed to sleep / wriggle / kick until somewhere between 630 and 730 (though this morning he was awake and wriggling and chatting from 5am!)

He naps once a day still, usually around lunchtime. Increasingly he resists doing so but then tends to fall asleep at the unhelpful time of 430/5ish... and then bedtime is even harder obviously! We've had the odd day when he's not napped at all and then bedtime has been easier and a bit earlier, but that's very much the exception.

At what age did you worst sleeper finally fall asleep in their own bed fairly quickly and stay asleep there until morning ie 6am onwards?!

Our situation is really taking a toll on us...!

At 12 months. After a few weeks of sleep training. It was that or our sanity

DS4 my 'suprise baby!!' Born when I was 40 and a half

I knew my due date....knew it without any doubt at all. He ended up being born 20 days after due date!! They kept telling me I was wrong but finally admitted they were. He DID NOT SLEEP - dropped his daytime sleeping by about 6 months I tried everything.

HV tried to help and we kept records of his sleeping patterns. After a month of doing this her actual words were 'If he was mine I would throw him through the bloody window '

The first time he actually slept through the night he was 5 years old.

BUT we lived through it. He is now nearing the end of 6th form college, is as bright as a button, a delightful young man who still is not great at sleeping but can sleep for England when its time to get up!!!

I hope you have success. Maybe your HV could help out??? xxx

You don't want to hear this, hard work until 10 (years not months) !!

My youngest child is a terrible sleeper and has only just started sleeping through most nights & he's 6 in a couple of weeks.

Ds is 3 next month and although better, I am still up at least twice a night.

Stay asleep til 6am??? Still waiting.
However, the color changing clock (one level up from a gro clock - you can hit a button, and it will tell you the time), keeps him in his bedroom til 6.15 now.

He was probably about 3 til we got a reliable night out of him (morning started at 5.30 tho). We also had the wakings at 1am, I I was often found in his bedroom from 1-3, dozing on the floor (and once he was out of the cot, both of us in his toddler bed). What happens if you take him back to bed when he comes to see you, even if it involves you sleeping on an airbed on his floor for a bit?

If I were you, I'd also try to do a quiet hour after lunch - stories on the sofa, TV etc and let him rest, and then try your hardest not to let him sleep at 4/5pm.

It WILL get better.

2 years and 1 month, but has regressed again at the age of 4 due to bad dreams and a very vivid imagination.