Hi, I'm really hoping someone can help as me and my husband are at the end of our tethers with our toddler who does not want to sleep. He has never been the best of sleepers but over the last few months it has become unbearable. We also have a 10m old who wakes between 430-6 so we are surviving on about 4hrs of broken sleep a night.
Our toddler is 26m and his routine is as follows (we stick to this as much as possible but depends on what activities we are doing)
7am breakfast.
10am snack
1030 (approx) nap
1230 lunch
2/230 snack
5 dinner
615 bath
7 story & bed
When we put him to bed he screams, cries and shouts for about 2 hours, he then sometimes wakes several times in the night shouting and crying, and is then normally awake doing the same any time between 530-630. He is then quite whingy throughout the day because he is tired.
We have tried everything we can think of: PU/PD, controlled crying, changing nap times/lengths, give a banana or similar before bed to make sure he is full,change bed times so he is more/less tired, stopped tv at least 3/4he before bed time, night light, changed from sleeping bag to quilt, less/more toys in his cot.
I went to the HV and she said to stop his bottle of milk before bed. This helped for about a week but then he got even worse.
We would be grateful for any advice and are willing to try anything! Thanks
