Our boy is almost 13 months old now and ever since coming home from a weekend at Grandma's he refusing to sleep in his crib. My wife, being almost 9 weeks into the next pregnancy, isn't tolerating the crying and is bringing him to bed around 10pm. But I don't sleep well when he's there, so it's making the whole family a bit cranky. We've been doing the whole sleep thing really well for seven months and just over the last month, he decided to start getting fussy progressing up to this.

Any suggestions or experiences? I've tried to let him run himself down to sleep, delaying his sleep time an hour, changing the "going to bed music" (what my wife likes really annoys me due to horrible vocal technique on some "classical styled" songs, where it's important), and holding him until he is fully asleep and then putting him in the crib. He always seems to wake up after a bit, half to one hour, and cry his head off.

My daughter always slept well. However, after about 12 months, she started teething, and everything went downhill for a few months. She still "slept" in her crib, but things did not always go so well. We had many a night where we watched Elmo and Murray podcasts until late into the night. Now things are back on track. I think the problems we had were: (1) she was sick at times, and (2) she was teething.

They always say it's good to have a routine, and our routine helped us greatly. But teething and such, there's really nothing you can do about it. Things like that just have to be endured. I don't know if that's what's going on with you guys, but that's my frame of reference. Stay Strong!!

Oh, this is killing us. My wife and I have been at each other since this started. She has to get sleep to go to work and so has been quick to bring him into our bed. But she agrees that it's not what we should be doing. Especially when I can't sleep and then have to try to catch a nap while taking care of our son and trying to wear him completely out of energy during the day.

So I've got an appointment scheduled for us tomorrow with our doctor. He'll check him out and hopefully propose some solutions. So far none of the teething aids has helped. We're trying to adjust his sleep schedule so that he has time to wear down after his bath. It worked on Saturday but didn't last night. We'll see what is recommended and I'll let you guys know how everything works out.

According to our doctor, he's just pushing out molars, maybe all four at once. He directed us to use Tylenol and Motrin, alternating every three hours. we'll start a couple hours before his bed time and see if we can head it off at the pass this time around.

Good luck. Hope the medications take the edge off for him so you all can rest well.

That was one of the most troubling things to me. Once our son started sleeping through the night, I thought that was it. We were set.

No one warned me that we'd have to re-train him and come up with new routines, cope with teething etc. It seemed so unfair at the time.

Hang in there. I agree that teething is just one of those things you have to bear down through.