12 month ds goes banana's when I put him to bed at 7.30

[MDF]

My ds has generally gone down to sleep fairly well for the last 6 months. But this last week, he has started going ballistic when I try to put him down in the evening. He screams, arches his back and pushes away from me when I try to calm him. I've tried cc but no success. He gets at least 2 hrs kip in the day, sometimes 2.5 hrs, with a short nap in the morning and a long one at about 1.30. He has been weaned from his final evening breast feed for over a month and has been happy with a bath, masage, bottle and story until now. It is not his normal teething behaviour, I think he just wants to stay up with us as life is too good to sleep. Anyone else had a similar problem??

sorry cant help as mines only nine months but an idea is go to put him to bed a 7:30 let him go nuts and say ok you can stay up till 8:00 and thats the latest he will think he has won but he's only going to bed half an hour latter hth

ooh yes MDF - going through this stage right now with ds1 (13mo). The only thing which seems to ensure an easy bedtime is getting him really physically tired in the the pm - going swimming, boisterous play etc., etc. Also not letting him sleep in the afternoon. What time does your ds finally drop off? Does he wake up later to compensate? If not perhaps he does need less sleep now and you could try reducing his daytime kips.

how strange, I did reply to your messages, but some how it seems not to a have appeared. I was proudly saying how I'd managed to get ds off to sleep easily for 3 nights in a run, a result of a very quiet (no splashing) bathtime and a 15 minute earlier start to the whole process. But new found success not gone and I'm back to him screaming for up to an hour. I'll keep trying the cc - I'm going in after 5mins then after 10 mins etc etc, is that the right thing to do?

MDF, dd suddenly started doing this at around 15 months. We did cc according to Richard Ferber's book and stuck to it rigidly and it worked after about 3 nights. She's 20 months now and goes down like a dream.

Thank god we're not the only ones!! My 14 month old has gone to bed perfectly since he was about 4 months and all of a sudden has started screaming the place down for about 1 hour!! He seems terrified of something, but we've tried leaving the door ajar, giving him a cuddle, a drink etc, etc, to no avail. Is cc, just going in after 5, 10, 15 mins and so on? Should we pick him up or not?? Help!! I want peace in the evening again!!