I am writing this because I am so over our lack of sleep at the moment. :frown: Our 14 month old son hasn't slept a full night in nearly two weeks and has stopped going to bed at his usual bedtime of around 7.30pm. (He never really slept a full night - maybe 3 nights he would then a couple of nights he wouldn't). I don't expect him to sleep the whole night everynight but after about 11 nights straight of waking screaming blue murder then not wanting to go back to sleep I am at a loss with what to do with him. We put the first few nights down to teething but it is still going on and he fights bedtime like you wouldn't believe.

We have done everything suggested in all the books etc about a bedtime routine, bath, soft lights and music while getting him ready for bed, reading a story and giving him a bottle. We have done the same routine everynight for months with the same calm lead up to bed and he still fights sleep until my husband rocks him for half an hour or more back to sleep. Then he is up again either at around 11pm or 2.am or 4am and sometimes all three. And getting him back to sleep at these times is near impossible.

I would like to know if my experience is similar to anyone elses at the moment? I feel like my whole life consists of trying to get him to nap and trying to get him to bed then trying to get him back to bed once he wakes up. He rarely sleeps more than about 1 to 2 hours during the day all up.

I don't think he is in any real pain when he wakes during the night because as soon as we pick him up he stops crying and starts talking and pointing to things wanting to play. The minute you put him down in his cot he has a fit, screaming and throwing his body around until you pick him up again. If he is in real pain eg teething we can tell because he doesn't stop crying until we give him panadol or something but most of the time he stops crying when we pick him up. I have tried to put him in bed with us when he won't go back down in his cot but he just sits up and plays in our bed and tries to get off the bed and hit us in the face and laughs:eek: .

Is this just a phase that will pass???