Sleep - or should I say no sleep!

I'm really struggling with my sons sleep at the moment and I'm not sure whether it's a sleep regression, a separation anxiety or whether he just doesn't like his bed. He's never been a great sleeper and didn't sleep through until he was about a year old, but even through regressions he'd still be asleep by 715pm. He's recently turned 2, and he is fighting bed time every night. The other night he fell asleep at 1045. I don't know whether it's going to be a case of buying him a new bed. He's currently got a floor bed, we took him out of his cot as he was getting too climby. If it's a bed change, what bed would be recommended?

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I hope you find a solution soon. Im having a similar issue.I’m following this to see suggestions.

How long is he napping for?

My LO took a few days to get used to his bed but as a compromise we got him to sleep in the buggy and transferred him after. I think once he had made the connection between the bed and night time sleep he seemed happier to go down. But having said that his sleep has been terrible recently, he goes down ok now but multiple wakes and shorter night time sleep that I haven't found a solution for yet!

I’d try to stick with the bed and see if you can rework the bedtime routine/hygiene to help understand his new bed/bedtime. So if you bath nightly, keep that the same time, but build to it. I have a 4 year and a two year old and I start giving bathtime cues from half an hour before so they know that it’s coming. Even though it’s still pretty light outside I close the curtain and put the side lights on to help their sleep hormones turn on. We spend about 20mins now in the bath followed by reading one or two books. Then we say goodnight to each other and my two year old is taken up to bed. We used to be able to just put him in, but now he likes a short book and cuddles with just the side light on very low. Then I tell him gently that it’s bedtime now and give him a kiss then put him in bed. Most of the time he’ll stay down but if he stands straight up I’ll pick him up and cuddle him until he’s relaxed properly. The second time he’ll then usually say night mummy to me and I leave.

Sounds like a huge faff but we’ve got it down now so that both kids get the routine and are in bed in 90mins with bath, stories, teeth etc. You’ll find your groove.

@Annabelle he barely naps now. He stopped napping at a year old. Every now and then he'll nap for an hour, if he does nap it's worse

@Natalie he's had his floor bed for a few months now, and every time he falls asleep at 7 and we've got it, it's straight back to fighting the next night

@Sarah I have always done this anyway, but since he's been in his floor bed getting him to sleep has been a nightmare

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