Hi all
I'm hoping for some advice or suggestions.
Every night is a struggle to get my 11 month old boy to sleep. Up until a month or so ago, he would have fallen asleep in my arms at around 7 pm like clockwork. He would then have woken up for his bedtime bottle at around 8 and then straight back to sleep until around 7.30 am. I would then have transferred him into bed when we go to bed at around 10.30 pm.
He is still in our room but in his own cot beside me. We didn't move him into his own room because (1) we went on holiday when he was 7 months and so thought it pointless moving him at 6 months to then have him in our room on holiday for a week and (2) we are moving house in a few weeks and so i thought it best to wait until we have moved.
This past few weeks he is now howling every evening and when I try to hold him for his sleep he flaps his arms around and tries to roll around the sofa. He's only just been pulling up this week so it's all he wants to do but I can see that he is exhausted. When he is this tired, he just keeps falling over.
It's now 10.30 pm/11 pm before he will finally go to sleep every night now. He is waking during the night crying , moving around the cot in every shape and sleeping in later than usual.
I go back to work part time in September and he will start nursery for those 3 days a week. He will have settling days in august for a few hours a week. Our house move will be end of July.
I really want to try to implement some sort of routine given all the changes coming up and have no idea where to start.
I tried putting him in his own room a few nights ago. He woke up crying during the night so I brought him back into our room. My plan was to maybe try to start him off in his room and if he wakes, move him - in the hope that he will eventually sleep through.
He has never been a good daytime napper - mostly his first nap will be around midday/lunchtime for around 30/45 mins. If I go out in car in afternoon he will get another 30 mins whilst I'm driving but that's it.
If I put him in his big cot in his room mid/late morning he will just play and now pull up and stand the whole time then cry because he is tired but he won't sleep there.
Sorry that was long!