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My son is 27 months old and has not slept though the nights since he was an infant. I admit that we have rocked him to sleep then put him in his crib asleep…everything that you are not supposed to do. He is a great napper and sleeps 1-2.5 hours each day. Getting him to sleep at night isn’t the major problem (we have a great routine and have stopped the rocking…to bed at 8:30 and up at 7:00am), it is his night waking. He is a crazy active sleeper, so we graduated him to a full size bed at 24 months…we had thought he was waking himself up by hitting the side of the crib, and had hoped the new bed would give him plenty of room to flip & flop. While it gives him the room he needs, it does not stop waking up. There are 3 major problems with his waking…1. Now when he wakes up he gets out of bed and comes into our room (or wherever we are depending on the hour); 2. When he isn’t wandering the house he will sit up in his bed and SCREAM & cry until his daddy comes in to console him and 3. His daddy is the only one who can put him back to sleep (I put him to bed without a problem, but he freaks out when I come in the middle of the night and will scream until my husband comes in.). My husband does often rock him back to sleep after these wakings because he is so upset. On a typical night he wakes up 2-3 times, and often wakes his sisters (5 month old twins who blissfully sleep through the night!)…I am terrified his sleep problems are going to start effecting them.

At this point, we don’t know what to do. We have tried just about everything. Any suggestions? ANYTHING would be appreciated.

Thank you!