HELP - 2 1/2 year old not wanting to wear DBB at night

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Hi All-

is now 31 months and has been wearing the DBB since 9 weeks

of age. We have never had an issue with him not wanting to wear them

to bed (unless it was a case of him being super tired and wanting to

get straight to bed and not mess with them). All of the sudden he

has been waking up at midnight screaming, crying and yelling to take

his shoes off. He does this off an on until about 4:30-5:00am when I

give in an take them off, so we can all get a couple hours of sleep

before we start the day. He has no issue putting them on when it is

bed time, he just wakes up in the night freaked out about them. I've

brought him back to bed the last couple of nights with me to see if

I can comfort him. He just kicks his feet like crazy and says shoes

off. I've adjusted the bar even though it was shoulder distance to

see if that made a difference and it hasn't. Does anyone have any

suggestions? He hasn't been sleeping well (up 3 times a night)

since August but I don't think it was DBB related because one night

I left his shoes off to see and he still woke up at night. He

definately is angry about wearing the shoes because he verbalizes

it. When I take them off at 4:30am he says thank you and then goes

to sleep. I'm pretty sure we are going to be released from them in 5

months, so I just need to make it through these next 5 months. Any

suggestions? We are so close to finishing to have to go through

this now! It has been breaze up until now!