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[quote=Anonymous]My kid was an exceptionally terrible sleeper as an infant. Sometime around 18 months he finally started sleeping through the night. We switched him to a toddler bed at 2 because he was climbing in and out of the crib like some sort of little monkey. He slept great in his new bed until the month he turned 2.5- doing 12-13 hour stretches. When he was 2.5 he got a stomach bug twice in one month and threw up both times all night, and after that, everything went downhill. His napping has been all over the place since he turned 2 but at least we could count on the night sleep. Now it's awful, he wakes up between 6-6:30am and I put on the TV so I can at least get an hour more rest before my youngest wakes up. He refuses naps, he will not do quiet time unless he gets some video to watch in bed. I've tried locking him in his room but he will just stand and bang on the door and little brother next door will wake up. I hate that I have to resort to letting him watch almost 3 hours of iPad videos but I don't know what else to do. He goes to bed around 7-7:30pm. I tried putting him to bed earlier but he will not stay in bed and runs around the house and I have to do bedtime with my youngest as well so I can't have him running around the house unsupervised or yelling for me to come and play toys 30 times in a row. He wakes up at 11pm, midnight, 1am, and 3am. By 3am I have to threaten to basically never let him have fun again if he doesn't stop waking up and yelling for me. It's always something- monsters in the room, or he needs to pee or he has already peed and I need to change the sheets, or he needs more water, etc. We got a night light, potty is right next to his bed, he refuses to wear pull ups because he's been day trained for almost a year, he has a bottle of water on his nightstand. I made a monster spray for him to spray for monsters. He has a sound machine and the room is nice and cool, blackout curtains are down. We have the same bedtime routine - bubble bath, teeth brushing, books, and his bottle of water. I am sure that he needs some sort of a nap because if I put him in the car around 1pm, he will sleep in the car for 2 hours. But than he won't go to bed until 10pm. He also becomes awful in the afternoon - crying and yawning and doesn't want to do anything. I have to take care of little brother too so I'm probably getting around 4-5 hours of sleep max per night and it's wearing me down as well. 
Any advice? Im not sure what else I could do. [/quote]

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