My son has never been a good sleeper, about 2 months ago for two weeks he slept straight through the night and it was great. From then on it's gone downhill rapidly. He used to wake up 2 or 3 times in the night, I used to put his dummy back in and he would go straight back to sleep. In the last two months, it has gone from 2 or 3 times a night to every half an hour for the last 3 weeks, but the waking has changed, if i am lucky he will go back to sleep after putting his dummy in, but he wakes up hysterical. I have tried controlled crying, it doesnt work, he just gets even more hysterical, gets out of bed and stands shaking the stair gate at his door. I have tried putting lots of dummies in his bed so he can always find one but that doesn't work. I tried a night light in his room, made no difference. I have to hold him and calm him down, which takes a while, I put him back in to bed, go back to bed and it goes quiet for 10-15min then he starts screaming all over again. He refuses to sleep during the day, I am lucky if he goes down for 45mins in a day, I have tried everything to get him to nap in the day but I can't force him. He is on the go all day, doesn't stop but then comes 4pm and the hell begins, constant crying, clingyness, then dinner at 5 and he is ok for 15-30mins after dinner, then he is crying again, he won't sit and read a book, or sit and watch tv, he has to be stood up, and walking around. He likes to be in control, and doesn't like being in confined space. He hates being carried or hugged or being in his buggy, he has been in a bed since he was 8 months because he didn't like being confined in his cot. He goes to bed between 6-7pm, and once I have done his nappy he will put himself to bed, and goes to sleep instantly, my problem is keeping him asleep. I am pretty good with keeping him in his bed, but I sleep on the 3rd floor of my house and he is on the 2nd floor, so every half hour I am up and down the stairs, so after a few nights of spending every night up and down and not giving in and bringing him into bed with me, I have to give in because I don't have the energy to climb the stairs. I put him into bed with me and he sleeps straight through, but I rarely sleep when he is in bed with me, so either way I am not getting any sleep. I have spent so many weeks at home trying to implement strict routines and nap times and he just won't have any of it. I go back to work full time a week monday, and I honestly don't know how I am going to cope if I don't start getting some sleep. I really am at breaking point, I find myself so tired the slightest thing makes me burst into tears, please help someone!!!
