Oh wow...this is DS7....he pretty much gave up naps around 14 months...he did not sleep through the night until he was about 5 years old. He would fuss and fight at night when it came to sleeping or he would wake up multiple times throughout the night. He didn't have night terrors, he would just tell us that something woke him up. We really did not want to bring him into our bed so one of us would lay next to him until he finally fell asleep....we have a bedtime routine and got that set in stone around age 5, we had to buy a sound machine with multiple sounds because he would hear every noise in the house and it would wake him and that helped. He is now 7 and we read 4 stories together and then I am amazed at what comes pouring out of his mouth as we are laying in his bed together just unwinding...he will talk about stuff that happened last week in complete detail...he says he hates going to sleep because he can't get his brain to turn off and that he has too much to think about. So what I do is allow him time to just talk before bed -it has become one of my favorite times of the day with him....my DH and I take turns each night - one night is his and the next is mine where we read and then lay and talk with DS7 until he falls asleep. I am hoping that one day he will finally be able to fall asleep himself without one of us there!
