Hi Mitch, we have a 17 month old DS who is also a bad night sleeper. He rarely sleeps through the night, although in the last couple of weeks has started sleeping from 7.30 to 7ish about twice a week so maybe he's changing!

He doesn't have a dummy as it was causing us so much grief we took it off him at about 8 months as we were getting up anywhere from 5 to 10 times a night to put it back in his mouth! He does have a bottle though (only 150ml) which seems to resettle him really quickly. He wakes, he gets his bottle a fresh nappy and is straight back into his cot and asleep within 15-20 minutes. I know that he is old enough to not need this o/n bottle and I know it's just a comfort thing as he eats heaps so he's not hungry but if we try to get him to go back to sleep without it he can cry and yell for over an hour, so it's just easier for us to do a quick 15 min bottle and nappy change.

I don't really have any answers for you, just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone with a toddler who doesn't sleep. Have you thought about going to a sleep school?