[wanttobemommy]

My little boy who has always had a very easy bedtime routine will not go to sleep at all!!! I can not get him to take a nap without being in the car for at least a half hour (with these gas prices ARGH!!)

But the problem isn't just nap time. I could honestly handle a day where he has not napped but he will not go to bed. He has been in a toddler bed since he learned how to climb out of his crib right before he turned 1. He has never had a problem with going to bed. He has a bedtime movie that we play for him (20min long) and then his T.V. and DVD player automatically turn off.

He has never been afraid of the dark or anything. Even now he isn't asking for the light to be on. (when he wants it on he points to the switch and says push) But out of no where about 6 days ago this whole sleep thing started. It is almost 11 and he is still awake and only freaks out when I attempt to leave his room.

I have DH sitting in there now because I'm really starting to get frustrated and I'm sitting on his toddler bed crying my eyes out trying to convince Jaxon to sleep. I know he has night terrors but he hasn't had one in a long time and he hasn't had one recently.

Does ANYONE have any tips. I'm dying from lack of sleep.

[Samual]

He is at an awkward age and an age where attachment can become quite a bit stronger. Will he go to sleep if your in the room? If he does you could slowly work to be sat by the bed, then getting closer to the door until you just stand outside.

[poliscmjr]

I wish I had some advice for you. I hope things get better for you soon.

Do you think it has anything to do with the new baby coming?

[wanttobemommy]

We have tried the whole going into his room thing but the problem we are having is he will fight his sleep until midnight and then still wake up early in the morning and then top that with no nap and I have a cranky baby and cranky pregnant mommy. I need to get my sleep too. DH works closing shifts so I dont have any help with him until midnight. So I am getting barely any sleep.

I have read that sometimes they can sense that something is about to change and am surely hoping that this is something he will get over soon because we are at a week of almost no sleep. He has a drs appt early tomorrow morning and Im not going to be 100% thats for sure.

My biggest concern is more for the fact that I am supposed to be getting more sleep since I am having some minor complications and went from getting close to 11 hours of sleep a night and an occasional nap to getting 6 hours of sleep and no nap.

[poliscmjr]

How did it go last night and today?

[letschildproofdotcom]

My daughter was the opposite. She is about 2 now, but she has always had a hard time going to sleep. The way I got her to sleep was to lay her down in her bed, give her a hug and a kiss and say good night. She would get up and follow me at first, but I would just put her back without saying anything. After a while she got the message and she just goes to sleep with no problems.

[wanttobemommy]

I caved and let him sleep in my room with us because I'm just too exhausted to do this anymore. He took a ten minute power nap and is currently freaking out because I WAS trying to do my dishes and he wants me to hold him non stop. Then he will let me put him down lay down in his room for like 10 seconds and right as he realizes he is about to fall asleep he starts freaking out. I tried going in with him and laying down next to him but he wont sleep he will sit there and babble

[angelic_ky]

i use to have no problems getting going to sleep on the breast then at 18 mths when she would realise that she was drifting off she would wake her self up and start doing things so she wouldn't go to sleep... so i looked on the internet to see if this was a common occurance and found a lot of ppl complaining of the same thing, a lot of the 'veteran' mums replied saying that this happen a lot around that age, either that use to sleep good hit that age and then wont or they didn't sleep good and now they do, they said it usually a phase and last a few months (of course when you are lacking sleep a few months feels like eternity)... with Gabby i ended up teaching her to go to sleep in her cot

[purelegance]

izzy just went through this about a month ago. TBH, i don't remember what i did to get through it, it's all such a haze. eventually she did allow me to just stand at her door and talk to her. but it helped a lot that DH is a night owl and doesn't normally go to bed until 4 or 5 AM. MIL swears she wasn't sleeping because her "eye" teeth (incisors) took about 6 weeks to come in. we never had a problem with her teething before, but it's just a thought.

[wanna be a young mother]

I was going to say the same thing Amber! lol

Could his 2 year old molars be coming in? Nevy got hers at 19 months and it was HELL for like 3-4 weeks. She would not sleep or nap. She is a side sleeper and putting pressure on her cheek hurt her gums. I caved and gave her a little Tylenol (half the normal dose) just to get some sleep. It worked and I finally figured out it was pain and not just her acting out.

We have had some issues on and off over the last 2 months but I just let her CIO. I know thats not an option for you but its the only thing that works for us. The only other thing I can suggest is trying to put him in a pack n play in your room. That way he is close enough to see you and see you sleeping but at least he's not IN bed with you. That way after a few nights you can move him back in his room in the pack n play and then back into his bed. (thats how we got Nevy back into her crib after being on vacation for 2 weeks. She wouldnt go back in her crib b/c she was to used to sleeping with us while on vacation.