Hello
Ds has slept throught the night since he was 8 weeks old.......has always been perfect sleeping 12-15 hours each night, dropping off on his own, never waking in the night etc.........like I say just perfect...(I got him into a good routine with controlled crying which worked really quickly when he was about 5 or 6m).............
until now.......
In August, he managed to climb out of his cot but was banging his mouth on the way down, flinging himself over the egde...lol........tried it with the dropside left down but he was nearly tipping the whole thing up.............so we got him a big boys bed and for over a month he was just as good as before.......he wouldn't even get out of bed in the mornings, he would sit there calling "mama, dada!" for us to come and get him out!
So because we thought everything was ok we have now chucked his cot mattress away so going back into a cot can't be an option really
Anyway, 2 weeks ago, he just started getting out of bed as soon as we left the room to play with his toys........I tried the put-him-back-in-to bed-and-say-nothing thing..........then ended up taking all his toys out of the bedroom........................next he was running out onto the landing........so I stuck to what I had read about and without talking (or sometimes I just said "into bed") took he back with no fuss about 60times. I thought it would work but it didn't. In the end the only option I had was to stay with him with my head on his pillow talking about trains lol until he dropped off with me there.
Next night that didn't even work so I gave in and took him back downstairs until dp got home and ds fell asleep on him then he put him in bed.
Obviously though, whatever we do, as he will only settle off with us there, everytime he wakes in the night he runs in our room!
I understand that taking him back downstairs and lying on the bed with him is the wrong thing to do...........I've read all these parenting books
Anyway, so last night I thought right I want this sorted.......I am going to be strict and stick to what most the books say........so everytime he got out of bed I took him back and I was there from 6:05pm till 9:15pm and from a rough calculation I must have put him back into bed over 500 times!!! Seriously, he was leaping out of bed before I had got to the door sometimes!
So I can take it that this one does not work for my ds!
Please give me your advice/stories.........I will try anything......
Trouble is I have read everything I can and I can rule out controlled crying as he will not lie in bed to cry! If I hold his door shut he just runs around his room happily occupying himself!
I just don't know what has happened! And it probably feels even worse to me as he was always so good with sleep/bedtime!
TIA
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Lauraa83 · 07/10/2006 12:57
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