ds has always been a brilliant sleeper, 12 hours every night, rarely waking (maybe once a month if that), doing 7.30-7.30 every day, but since we moved house and dd was born it's been impossible to get him to fall asleep in his bed. When we first moved in he was fine, but he had a nightmare one night (about brollies of all things) and since then he's been reluctant to go to sleep in his bed, he has to fall asleep in our bed then i carry him to his bed.
Granted in the grand scheme of things it's hardly the worst problem in the world, but I would like to get him back to falling asleep in his bed. I asked him about the brollies, he says they come in the dark and scare him, so I've put a nightlight in his room. It has helped in that when he has woken in the night he's not been terrified and has been able to go back to sleep again.
We're going to move him to a big bed in a couple of months and dd will have his cot, so I thought it might be worth waiting until then to make the change back to falling asleep in his bed, we're going to take him to choose his new big boys bed and bedding. I really don't want to turn bedtimes in to a battle, he's such a great sleeper I don't want to jeopardise that. Previously when we've tried to force him, he's got really upset. How do we go about getting him to fall asleep in his own bed, especially as I'm usually trying to put dd to bed at the same time?