My 8.5 month old has always been a good sleeper but recently he’s been waking up around midnight and he’s wide awake. He refuses his bottle so he's not hungry and his nappy is usually not wet or dirty. He’s just wide awake! If I bring him into our bed he just fusses and rolls around kicking us which disturbs my husband who needs to be up early for work.
I’ve tried leaving him in his cot and going in and putting his dummy in but he will roll around and entertain himself for a while but then start to get frustrated and cry. When he was younger I’d take him downstairs in the dark and put him in the Moses basket and he would just eventually fall asleep, now he’s older I don’t know what to do with him, take him downstairs and let him play??? The past two nights I’ve taken him downstairs in his bouncer and let him watch hey bear, which obviously isn’t ideal, I don’t know how else to get him to sleep. If I let him play with toys he could be awake for hours and I’m worried that could interfere with his body clock even more. He’s not a cuddly baby so I know rocking him to sleep wouldn’t work when he’s that wide awake. I’m at a loss.
sorry for the long sleep deprived ramble!