Guys how are your little ones going for bedtime and overnight?

Our little boy was doing really well with going to bed and sleeping through. He would have the idea call out in the night, but often settled himself quickly.

The last three night though he has screamed (on and off after settling every few minutes) for almost 2 hrs. He is tired at bed time but I can tell he just wants to be patted to sleep. The thing is I just can’t do that as we’ve been there in the past with needing to pat or shush him back to sleep every time he wakes and it ends in me ‘sleeping’ on the floor in his room dishing or patting at every stir.

I am Happy to go in and give cuddles and get him calm and pop him back down. But within seconds of me leaving the room the screaming starts again.

Is anyone in the same boat or worked through this.

I can’t bear to leave him more than a few minutes for sleep training. But he is also a screamer. He’s never had a middle ground at bed time. It’s either happy and going to sleep or screaming 😱

He’s ‘sleeping’ 6pm - 6:30am and one nap about 12:30-1:30.

I thought it could be overtired as I’ve read they need about 1.5-2hrs day sleep, but I just can’t get him to stay down for longer. He’s never been a great day sleeper, so because he was sleeping through, I am thinking maybe this isn’t the reason .

Ah gosh. What do we do. Persevere and it will pass?

Hope you are all going well!