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Bedtime PLEASE HELP!!
Mummy's & daddy's please help! I am a single parent to a 17 month old. We have been in our own house now for 3 weeks. Used to live in a crowded house where we shared a room. First few nights in the house, in his own room he was fine and slept brilliantly. Now, I am close to having a breakdown from exhaustion. We have a bedtime routine. Dinner bath play cuddles and bed. But he will not settle without me in the room. I've tried night lights, motion lights, things that sign, a jumper of mine and favourite toy. Nothing seems to sooth him. It's getting so much now. I leave and he screams and bangs his head on his cot. During the night he'll wake up screaming and if I try to settle him and he wakes up again, I'm so tired I put him into bed with me. Which in know I can't continue. I am seriously reaching the end of my tether. Please help 
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When I wanted my daughter to sleep in her own bed and had managed to try everything possible to stay in it, I told her that she gets a sticker for every night she slept alone. I bought her a few toy of her choice for every sticker she earned. She was very excited and that made her sleep more often in her bed.Good luck hunny!