My ds is 26 months. Until 4 days ago he took an afternoon nap (between 90 minutes and 2 hours) every day without any stress. But on Monday he just didn't want to sleep in the afternoon. The same on Tuesday and Wednesday, with increasing levels of hysteria if I left him in his cot. Today (Thursday) I went through his wind down routine, put him in his cot and just shut the door. He screamed for 50 minutes but then went to sleep.
What I would like is some advice:
1: Do you think ds is just trying it on? He's dead tired all afternoon without his sleep, and has been trying to push the envelope in other ways too ("don't want to go to playgroup"; "don't want to eat dinner"; "don't want to have a bath" and last night he tried the same "don't want to go to bed" in the evening too.
2: When he doesn't want to go to bed, he starts by saying he wants to sleep in the big bed (a double bed next to his cot). I've tried putting him there, but he sleeps in a grobag, so he's not tucked in with sheets/blankets/duvet and he just gets up and starts jumping around. Has anyone made the transition to a bed with a grobag or the like? How do you do it?
All advice most gratefully received. Thanks, Lorien