Suddenly having 2-3hr bedtime battles with 10mo- help!

[MintGreenLife]

9 days ago my 10mo suddenly started being really difficult to bed to bed. He’s never been a great sleeper, but generally speaking we’ve never had much of an issue putting him down for bed.

He’s EBF and I feed him to sleep, rock him for a little while and then put down asleep. At the moment he will be tricky to get to sleep (pulling his hair, ear, hitting himself in the head and throwing his arms and legs around while feeding or rocking). Will eventually fall asleep, but then as soon as put down is instantly awake and screaming.

We did go through a phase of not being able to put him down when he was 5 months old which went on two months and we ended up letting him sleep on us and we slept in shifts, until we intervened and started putting him down awake. We only did this for a few weeks though, as couldn’t hack that there was always tears at bedtime. Reverted back to feeding to sleep and it had worked ever since, until recently.

Now he has had one of his top teeth cut through around the time this started, but not sure if that’s responsible as still going on a week later. The same thing happens when he wakes in the night - hard to get back to sleep, won’t go back down.

Does anyone have any suggestions?! I’m feeling completely worn out after over a week of spending 2-3hrs a night trying to get him to bed, and same all over again on his wakeups. He’s ended up sleeping in the pram a couple of nights as no matter what we did he wouldn’t go in his cot 😭

[morescrummythanyummy]

Well done @MintGreenLife

Good luck!