Hi. A BIG thank you to everyone who replied with their help and advice. It took about an hour and half tto settle hin tonight but the screaming wasnt as loud! We will change his cotbed into a bed over the weekend once we have bought some new bedding that he has chosen. I also spoke to the hv today who gave me a few more tips so fingers and toes crossed!!

Thanks ladies xxxx

hi hun xx

sounds like your lo is enjoying this new found game of getting out of his bed !!

2 options

1 - do your normal bed routine when you put him in bed if he gets out leave him go back after a couple of mins pop him back in bed good night kiss and tuck in every time you leave the room slowly leave the time you go back longer and longer and after a couple of days your lo will have go tthe msg and decided to give up and sleep

2 the other option is if your lo has a screeming fit bring down for a few mins have a nice cuddle on the sofa and say in five mins its bedtime and in five mins go up then carry on with option 2

its really upto you but maybe its time for a BIG BED  and take your lo with you when you go and buy it too good luck x

I suggest you make a big fuss about taking the sides off - LO helped me do it (which was chaos!) but he was very happy about his "big boy bed". We had a couple of great nights and then it started to get difficult so we went down the sticker route and like others its really worked for us.

DD was in a cot until she was about 2 1/2.  She always used to sleep really well then overnight she started screaming and refusing to go down to bed and waking in the night distressed too. 

We decided that something had to give after a week and so made a big thing of changing the cot into the cotbed.   She helped us take the sides off and we went out and bought some new big girl bedding and she helped us put that on her bed.  That night she almost skipped into bed with the biggest grin on her face and went to sleep immediately and slept right through again.

We have also found sticker charts work well in other situations so it should work equally well at bedtimes.

GOOD LUCK!

Our dd was in her cotbed until she was 3yrs as there pretty big arent they, she always slept wonderfully.  When she was a bit older we changed her to a bed but thats when the trouble started she wouldnt stay in at all and she was too tall for a gate shed just climb over.  We tried numerous times putting her back again and again for a whole month but it wasnt working for us and we didnt want her in our bed or have to stay with her until she fell asleep as it then creates a habit.  Taz on here recommended we get a sticker chart and I can honestly say we havent looked back since!! I didnt think it would work but shes been great and always asks for her sticker in the morning we got it from tesco £3 well worth it, shes now sleeping 730til730.  You have to stick to it tho and any fuss or getting out then they dont get the sticker in the morning! They soon learn...... HTHxx

Hi

dp finally got him settled after an hour. he just stayed in the room with him and kept laying him back down. Not sure if this was the right thing to do, maybe dp should have gone out of room and kept going back in after a couple of mins?   Any other advice would be much appreciated xx

He has a cotbed, so just a case of taking the sides down. i dont want to do this tonight has may confuse him more. Thanks for replying xx

Just keep putting him back every couple of minutes it may take a while (took me 2 hours the first time) but keep at it and dont give in, have you considered moving him to a bed maybe he feels cramped in a cot?

hi

my ds has just turned 3 and is still in a cot (i no this probably sounds bad but he never got out and was very happy at going to bed) unitl now .last night he finally worked out how to get out of his cot but i eventually managed to get him to stay there and he slept all the way through till about 7.30 this morning. he has always gone to bed at 7pm but tonight i put him down as ive always done and he got straight out, so i put him back in, he got back out so i just left him at his door (there is a gate) now he is just continually screaming and every time me or dp go back up to him  after leaving him to scream he just carries on and will not go back to bed as he gets straight back out again. he jsut wants to come down stairs. he doesnt have much speech so cannot tell us whats wrong (he is under the speech therapists)   i have had a really bad migrane all day so really do not need this tonight.

what do we do leave him to scream and p*** our neighbours off. let him come down for abit and try again. keep putting him back in bed again and again???

any help or advice very much appreciated because i cant take much more of this tonight or any other night. please help xxx