Sleep

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Mums please help!!

My 9 month old is not sleeping as usual. I try to keep to a routine - bath and nurse to sleep by around 7/7:30pm. He would normally fall to sleep breastfeeding within 15-20 minutes. He’s now fighting with me to stay on the breast, trying his hardest to get away from me, screaming. It’s taking 1-2 hours to get him to sleep which means he’s losing out on sleep as he still wakes up at the same time every morning (7am).

I have tried to transition him from bed sharing to his own cot by getting him to sleep in there and disappearing when he sleeps but he wakes soon after screaming when he finds I’ve left him. I’ve tried to put him in awake, he screams. I’ve tried to stay with him in the room but not look at him, he stands up in the cot and plays.

I’ve tried later bedtimes as I thought maybe I was reading the signs wrong and he’s not tired but if I let him play he screams that he’s tired.

Feeling useless and fed up. Please send help.. the goal is just to get him to sleep easily again, I don’t mind bed-sharing or if he sleeps in his cot, just that he sleeps😫

Other than that he sleeps ok through the night, waking a few times but goes back to sleep which I don’t mind.

Hi,

I have been in the same boat with my son who is now 22 months old.

He may be going through a sleep regression or in the process of hitting a milestone such as sitting, crawling or walking. You will find his sleep is all over the place at times when he is learning to do something new but don't worry in most cases they go back to normal once it has passed.

Lots of people will recommend sleep training but with me i just kept to our usual routine and continued the co-sleeping as that worked for us. Whatever you do stay patient and hopefully things will settle soon ☺️

Basically you need to find another way to get him to sleep. This was when we sleep trained DD, but you could switch out the boob for rocking, cuddling, patting or whatever works for you instead. Make sure he gets enough to eat in the day.