Hi all
My little one has always been a terrible sleeper. Hasn't yet slept through the night and he's 9 months old today.
We never set out to co-sleep, but it was the only way we were able to get some rest. However this week, I've finally put him in his cot (although it's in our room for the time being). He has pleasantly surprised me, and 9 times out of 10, I can put him in his sleeping bag, put his white noise on and he was babble and put himself to sleep with no assistance from me whatsoever.
I was absolutely baffled as he is a boy who has always needed to be shh'd, patted or have his back rubbed to sleep. I am SO pleased he has learnt how to drift off alone both for his night sleep and his naps.
My problem is night wakings. For the two nights he has been in his cot, the first night he woke 4 times. The second night he woke 6 times, one of which took 1.5 hours for him to go back to sleep. I had to pick him up to rock him in the end but I'm only doing this as an absolute last resort. Ideally I won't want to be picking him up.
When he wakes in the night, he just whinges. There are times he babbles and just sits up. I've tried to ignore him but he then starts to stand in the cot then I have to place him back down and he needs a lot of assistance from me to go back to sleep.
How can I help him to work on the night wakings? I appreciate it's only early days him being in the cot but I would love to get a bit more than 2 hours of sleep at a time!
Thanks in advance
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9 months of broken sleep!
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S082018 · 06/11/2020 20:24
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