Sleep is for the weak

I'm sure I love my son. Right now though it is Very Very Hard.

He has decided that he can only sleep with a bottle in his mouth, or Boy or myself laying next to him until he falls asleep.

He was lovely - he would go to his cot, drink his bottle, sleep nicely.

Then escape artist Flameboy was born, he was hurting himself leaping to freedom, so the bunkbeds came.

But the problem is, he has always liked sleeping in squished little spaces. When Flamechick was born we had the moses basket, but she wanted space, so went into the proper cot after a couple of weeks. So, for Flameboy I decided we would just use the bassinet bit of the travel cot until he was ready to move into his own room. He hated it. He slept best wedged inside a v-shaped pillow inside the carry cot from the pram. He was in his crib until he was sitting up and leaning out of it, and even then he wasn't impressed with the size of the cot.

The bed is HUGE. Curled up he still fits completely onto a pillow. He hates it, he tries to sleep with Flamechick, he cries at the gate for us, 9 times out of 10 he sleeps on the floor by the gate. Last night, after 18oz of milk in total, the fridge was empty. I refused to sleep in with him. So he screamed, and screamed, and screamed for most of the night (he would sleep in stages, but then wake up and remember he should be screaming).

Today, we're both exhausted. He has just gone to bed now, started the screaming again. He was so red and distressed he was going to make himself ill, so I gave in and cuddled him to sleep.

I don't know how to fix this. Pondering a tent in the bedroom so he gets the closed in feeling. I don't think he can escape the travel cot yet, but I think it would only be a couple of nights.

My lovely little boy is very very broken and I am at a loss as to how to fix it.