Help! My baby never sleeps!

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DH and I are at our wit's end!
DS is 7 months old and slept through the night from 8 weeks until about a month ago. Since then his sleep has just got worse and worse.

We've been trying since 7:30 this evening to get him to sleep with no luck. He's either screaming like someone is trying to murder him or laughing and rolling around - honestly not sure which one is worse! He is really difficult to get to nap in the day as well and constantly fights it, some days were lucky if he sleeps half an hour during the day.

We're exhausted. He was bad in our room so we thought maybe we were keeping him awake and he was a light sleeper, so moved him into his room which has been absolutely awful. We bought a Ewan the dream sheep which makes very little difference.

I honestly don't know what to do. This is affecting my relationship with my husband as we're both so tired all the time were snapping at each other and barely spend any time together. He's been furloughed now so we're taking it in turns during the day to have a nap and half an hour to ourselves but we can't carry on like this.

Any suggestions?

I would let others comment, but I wouldn't have thought a 7 month old not sleeping well at night was too uncommon, my own DS didn't have a full night sleep until 2YRs old which I thought was quite normal. When he wakes at night how long does it take him to go back to sleep? for my DS it was about 30min of us helping him to go back to sleep which was not too bad (1-2 times a night).

Oh, did you mean that you have been trying to put him to sleep from 7.30 to 11.30pm without much success? if so, then that does sound a bit extreme....

Hiya, yeah started putting him to bed at 7:30 as he was grumpy and tired and he'd fall asleep for like 5 mins then be up again.