11 month old standing up five million times a night

[noblegiraffe]

My 11 month old has always been a crap sleeper although he had started to sleep for 4 hour stretches a handful of times and I was seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

Then he started to crawl and pulling himself up on the furniture. Now when he is put in his cot to sleep, he is continually rolling over to crawl, sitting up, then pulling up to standing even in his sleep. He needs to be pinned down to go off to sleep and then monitored for a while and flipped back over when he turns to crawl until it looks like he will stay asleep for a bit.

Then 45 minutes later (or even 10 minutes later) I will hear a cry, go into his room and the poor thing will be standing up looking all confused. Then I will lay him down and pin him down until he stops trying to crawl and it starts all over again.

Any ideas short of tying him to his cot on how to stop this compulsion? It's not like I can do controlled crying or anything because he's not going to go back to sleep when he's standing up, and he can't lie himself back down. Co-sleeping doesn't help, he still wakes up all the time.

He's tired, and we're exhausted. I have no idea what to do.

Is he still in a sleeping bag?

It does stop when they are through the developmental phase - not much help though I know.

Yes, he's in a sleeping bag, but it doesn't seem to make the slightest bit of difference?

How long does it last? It's been going on about 3 weeks now and it seems to be getting a lot worse.

My DS learnt to stand and we used to find him like this but we gave him loads of time to practice in the day and now he can lower himself back down again (or let go and fall not so gracefully onto his bum!)

Probably took a couple of weeks?

Also whilst he's doing this, I'd put him to bed a bit earlier so he can catch up on sleep - if he's overtired, he's more likely to have broken sleep at night and becomes a vicious (sp??) cycle.

My DS is a terrible sleeper - we have to give him early bedtimes to sort him out quite regularly!

I second what Iggly said. DS did this briefly but he loves being in the playpen in the day and the practice with the bars seems to have helped, he can stand up and lie down again in his cot by himself.