14 month old refusing to sleep at night !! Help!!

[LillyJean1]

Help!! I am at the end of my tether here. My 14 month old usually sleeps at 7pm. This past week that has not happened. He has always co-slept with me ... Please don't judge as I am going to make the transition to cot during Easter break as it's the only time I can afford the even less sleep as I will be off work for 2 weeks. I am now a single parent of 2 so no help for taking turns. Breastfed until he was 12 months but fell into bottle at bed time as I couldn't get him to sleep any other way. So the past week our routine has been the same where we do bath, book, bottle, bed (my bed) once he's asleep I usually get back up and get organised for my night and spend some time with my eldest. This week hasn't worked at all. Tonight I've been lying in my bed from 7pm and it's now 11pm and he's still awake. I want to cry!! This is just crazy!! I've never been a fan of controlled crying but I swear if he was used to his cot I would have tried it tonight because I feel like I'm loosing my marbles. I still need to get back out of bed when he does sleep to get everything organised so that the morning runs smoothly for school, nursery and work but he's still lying awake. Has anyone else experienced this and what on earth can you advise?

Please any tips??? 😓

Just to add ... I've tried singing, played sleep music on my phone. Took his temp. Gave him water. Nothing is working

I know that not everyone believes that the Wonder Weeks are accurate, but i seem to remember that there is one at 14-15 months which disrupts sleep - might be that? ( for you anyway, sleep deprivation is hellish).

Thank you so much for replying. I'm currently reading about the wonder weeks at the moment. Finger crossed. 😓😓 I am so tired.

Fingers crossed. Even if it isn’t that, remember the unofficial mumsnet motto, “this too shall pass”. Everything is a phase. It won’t be the same in a month’s time, let alone a year. I bought dd1 a gro clock at 17 months and explained about having to stay in bed whilst the moon was up, and she got it surprisingly quickly.

In the mean time, buy nice coffee, sleep whenever (really whenever) you get a chance, be kind to yourself over anything unimportant right now, and repeat to yourself through gritted teeth over and over again “this too...”