Toddler sleep - corona??

[josephine876]

Hello all

My little boy is 35 months and always been a great sleeper. We do bath, book with milk, brush teeth and bed. Quick song in bed and then he drifts off to sleep. The last week has been horrible. He comes out of his room immediately when I leave and this goes on for about an hour. We go in calmly, reassure him and tell him it's time for bed and earn the room.
We coslept until he was 17 months, he's in a toddler floor bed now.

Might be anxiety or stress... lockdown has a big effect on him as well of purse. He asked me to go into the shop, to go to the play park etc and I've been having to say no to all of these obviously.

I feel horrible and so fed up. It's not that simple to say "I'll sit with him until he falls asleep" because when me or my husband are sitting next to him he starts singing, playing, dancing... it's worse.

Really hope you can offer some words of wisdom!

25 months, not 35 😊

Nothing much to offer in the way of advice but wanted to let you know you're not alone.

We've had a few ups and downs in our lives before COVID took hold (moving house, new nursery and more recently changed to toddler bed from cot) but DS (26 months) was sleeping through the night (albeit waking anytime between 5-6.30am from 7.30pm), otherwise we wouldn't have dreamed of removed bars from bed (despite him attempting to climb out!)

We're in similar boat though recently, in his bed by 8.30pm (as opposed to 7.30pm) and waking around 11pm-12am when he can normally be persuaded back to sleep in his bed however around 2-4am he wakes again and can't be persuaded to the point he cries if we try and I give in and bring him into our bed as I need my sleep (still working FT from home).

I'm hoping overall it's just a phase and not (really!) linked to the current climate and trying to push him back to (his) bed to sleep will win out ... that said take comfort in the knowledge that there's no teenagers who still sleep with their parents! It will pass x