Ds is 14 months. For the last few months me and dp have been reluctant co-sleepers. We’ve put it down to teething, colds, generally being a bit poorly but there’s nothing wrong with him. He will just about go down okay, but he will typically wake about 9-10pm and have a bit of a grumble, this will then turn into hysterical screaming within about 5 seconds. Nothing will calm him, unless we take him into our room.
We have tried sleep training/controlled crying and he would get so worked up to the point he would be red faced with tears streaming down his face. Needless to say we gave up with this.
He’s now laid next to me in bed and is quite content after waking up about 5 mins ago. We can tell if he’s poorly because he’ll still cry once he’s in our bed, 90% of the time he will smile and go back to sleep as soon as he realises he’s in our room. If we try and put him in his room, he will massively kick off.
We’ve had no big changes recently. He’s been in his own room since about. 6 months, I’ve been back at work since he was 9 months.
We’re at a loss what to do, and he seems to get worse.
We really don’t want to co-sleep and we don’t want to end up with. 3/4 year old still in the bed.
Does anyone have much experience of this, or suggestions of what the hell we can do?