He just won't go to sleep

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Routine is the same as usual for ds.
Upstairs at 7pm, brush teeth, book, bottle and he usually falls asleep on the bottle (hense the tooth brush before)

Yet

He is laughing, crawling around on the bedroom floor, refusing to settle.

I've now put him in his cot and I'm sat on the floor ignoring him.

The only difference today than every other day is that he slept in until 9 rather than 6.30 and only had one nap at 12. Is there anything I can do to get him to sleep or should I just call quits and take him back downstairs?

How old is he? I’d probably take downstairs with minimal fuss and no screens for 10 minutes and then try again.

Mine are all teens so things may have progressed though

Thank you @Lenny he's 10 months. I might try taking him down again.

I took him down at 8 because DH had made dinner so we left him on the livingroom floor while we ate and then I came back up with him. He just doesn't seem tired. His sister was a demon at bedtime as a baby, but putting her in the cot and sitting by the door just ignoring her used to work like a charm. What happened to my good sleeper

Why don't you just go downstairs?

Sound like the lie in and nap drop has given him an evening boost then

I’d maybe try moving his routine forward tomorrow to 8.45pm and see if that helps.

The only thing that really helped my 3 is low activity, interaction a couple of hours before bed and making the bath story routine as boring as possible

Good luck!

I increase wind down time as they get older. That is the allotted time I give them to settle before going back to them.

Is he able to get out of the cot himself? Just trying to understand as you say he’s crawling on the floor at the moment.

Have you put him down done a simple routine (story or song etc) then left the room immediately after saying good night? If so is there any reaction? If he’s cooing and chattering and safe in his cot (or room if it’s baby proofed) and not upset i’d let him have that time to wind himself down.

My DS is a sleep dodger, he’s now 2.5 and when he got to roughly 18 months old I was tying myself in knots trying to get him back to being a good sleeper. But I was making it worse (not saying you are!) my DH just cut through it with one simple sentence that was obvious when he said it but I hadn’t thought of it - “if he sounds happy enough then leave him to it!”.

I’m not trying to be condescending - we’ve had a lot of nights where he is screaming, crying, yelling for as long as possible unless we go to bedtime routine plan B (we have plans up to D now) which includes one extra story and a quick cuddle - but I wanted to offer it first. He’s got a twin sister who sleeps in the same room and they’re in tandem between good and bad sleeping (when one goes through a period of great sleep the other always goes through a period of terrible sleep 😩) I just aim for a happy medium now

Thank you everyone. He just fell asleep, no rhyme or reason just decided to lay down and was out.

I'll try later tomorrow @LennyPugGoat and see what happens thank you

@Windyatthebeach I've never left him awake in his cot except when he's woken up himself and I've left him happily playing before going in to him because he usually falls asleep in my arms while feeding. I should probably consider trying putting him down and leaving him if he has stopped going to sleep while having his evening feed.

@NaviSprite you probably cut it quite clearly for me haha, dh did say just come downstairs, but like I've said above, I've never done it, but you're right he's happy, he'll be fine.
He was crawling around on the floor, but I'd put him in the cot when I was typing the post, sorry wasn't the clearest.

He can't get out of his cot yet, but he's starts swinging his legs up when he's stood up, it's at its lowest point now too 🙈

Sounds like he was overtired to me? Hopefully a good night for you now!

Thanks all, he was up at 7, so only an extra hour this morning and he's just gone down for his nap. So maybe yesterday was a one off 🤞🤞🤞