Can’t stay anywhere

My son’s sleep is terrible. It has been for months. His quality of sleep must be appalling. He wakes multiples times a night screaming and can’t be settled. We’ve tried adjusting his naps, calming bed routine, earlier and later bedtimes but no change. We tried staying at his grandparents tonight and had to drive home at 3am as he was screaming. I don’t know what to do anymore? Why is it like this? Other kids sleep through? Feel like I’m being punished. He’s not teething at the moment either. It’s putting a massive test of our relationship too (us, mum and dad) We had plans to go away at the end of this month and him stay with them but we’ll probably have to cancel it.

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What do your days look like?

Food/milk/sleep/activities ?

milk when he wakes up,
First nap 11-1 (he starts nursery at 1 so can’t get around this)
Milk before bed around 19:00, asleep around 19:30-8
In day he goes to play groups, nursery, very sociable.
He wakes between 6-7 usually but wakes a lot

Sounds like my day, but my son naps from 12-2.

How much does he eat throughout the day? He might be hungry.

he eats a lot 😂😂😂 prob as much as a 3 year old

Very strange! Sorry, I'm not much help then. Did you try reducing his nap to 1.5, then 1 hour over the course of a few days. It sounds as though he hasn't got enough sleep pressure to get through the night.

I would reduce him to an hour for a good few days. I think they reset after 3 or 7 days, I can't remember what a sleep therapist said to me 🤔

A week.

It could be teething? We have rough nights when it's especially bad!

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