Hi all
I am coming to you out of desperation to see if anyone can help me with my precious 2 year old boy.
We moved to a new house 3.5 weeks ago and he's been sleeping really badly since. Reluctant to go to bed, which we expected to be honest. Once we got settled in and tried our best to lay out his room exactly as it was in the old place, established his routine again etc. It got marginally better, although not massively.
He's been waking in the night, thrashing around and screaming his head off 1 or 2 times a night.
DH and I are so sleep deprived now that we are coming to the end of our tethers and I have no idea where to go from here.
He's had a lot of changes going on recently as he's also just started nursery 2 weeks ago.
The more reassurance and attention/cuddles we've given him, the worse he's gotten. I think he's now realising that he can manipulate us and is having tantrums in the day banging his head on the floor. He will tantrum and scream before he goes to bed and seems desperate to get out of going to bed. Once we put him down he will scream for at least an hour before he goes to sleep. Myself and DH go in periodically to reassure him and try to get him to sleep and he's fine. He then starts drifting off and the minute we leave the room he's screaming again.
We've tried every tactic we can think of and are at a loss now. He was never an amazing sleeper and we co slept for the best part of his first year. But after going to the sleep clinic he slept independently for the past year with no troubles.
If there's anything anyone can share that might help I would be so grateful! It's starting to affect our time in the evenings, of which we don't get a lot, our marriage is solid but it's not an easy one right now as we are so sleep deprived and stressed. Same as my beautiful little boy.
Thank you if you managed to read my mammoth essay.