Sleep probs - please help!

I don't know what has sparked this but we are having soooo many issues getting Daniel to go to sleep.

Basically this has been going on for 9 days and after trying to get him down for a nap earlier I've had enough and wondered if anyone has any suggestions..

Basically, you go to put him down and he screams blue murder - this happens both during the day and at night. We were starting to make progress but the past 2 days have gone back to being horrible

His routine hasn't changed, he is definitely tired so it's not that we are putting him to bed when he doesn't need to, he's not thirsty or hungry. He has his precious taggie with him always. He's not hot or cold.

We have tried getting him to go to sleep in his cot and also in his big boy bed which is also set up in his room. The only way we can get him to sleep is by staying with him humming songs until he actually falls asleep and waiting until he's in a deep sleep then leaving the room without a sound, if he senses that we are going he starts up again. This can take anywhere between 10 mins and 2hrs We have also got out his old white noise cd and night light to help. Which sorta does help I think.

After 2hrs of trying to get him to go down for his nap I've given up for today. He's tired yawning away and rubbing his eyes but just won't go to bloody sleep! He was happy and talking whilst I was in the room but as soon as I leave the screaming starts.

I've tried leaving him to cry it out but it simply didn't work which is weird since it's worked before. First time he got so worked up I could hear him gagging so I had to go in. The second I got sick of hearing the screaming after an hour.

His ears are fine, there is physically nothing wrong with him.

What can I try?

I miss my nice little boy who slept brilliantly!!

Thats a tough one. Normally I let DS cry it out but in this case it hasnt worked for you. I do suggest that you dont make a habit of humming or being in the room when he goes to sleep. He will get so used to it and it can be the worst type of habit to break.

A random idea, why dont you try putting him into his cot with some books - he might play until he falls to sleep. Hopefully he will grow out of this phase soon.

My DS lies in his cot and kicks the end of it to get our attention. Im really worried that he may smash his cot more (already one bar smashed out) and we are needing it for one of the twins in a couple of months time. They just go through these funny sleep phases.

I'm totally fine with CC/CIO. We have used CC on him before with success. But this time is different, he never used to get himself this worked up before with it

No, that bedtime bath stuff makes his skin dry. But that is his routine anyway. Bath then bottle and bed. Has been that way since he was a month old

God I hope so. He screamed in his cot so we put him in his big bed and he went to sleep from being exhausted. I'm going to try and put him straight into his big bed for his sleep today and see if he does that again

Spencer did this a little while ago but just with his nap not with bedtime itself. I just got him back up cos I actually thought he was in the process of dropping his afternoon nap but a few weeks later and he now has his nap again no trouble, the only thing I can put it down to is that he had a big developmental spurt.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

Glad to hear you are making progress Stacey... we are having similar problems here with our 18mth old and think it might be a bit of a phase. She only has a short-mid length nap once a day and has always been a brilliant night sleeper - but is quite hard to settle for her night sleep recently. We'd put her down and she'd be back up within half and hour screaming blue murder. I think it could have been teething too... which was upsetting her. Tricky too because we've just moved our near 5 mth old into the nursery as well - so they can both set each other off sometimes!

Best of luck and hope Daniel continues to settle well for you They are finicky things these toddlers sometimes!

Sorry no ideas, just sympathise with you!! . Jack seems a lot grumpier during our normal nap and bedtime routine. I have wondered a couple of times if he is hot so have dropped the number of layers he wears and am keeping his windows open until we go to bed. He does seems to be waking a bit earlier too, just before 7am when he used to sleep till about 7.30am