Hello, this might be a bit long because I want to try to cover everything! I would like my evenings back - he won't go to sleep until 9 or 10 some nights and by then I just want to flake out!
6.5mo DS who is BF, being weaned, and teething will go down for naps in his cot (curtains drawn, music on) no problem whatsoever during the day, but will cry until rocked / fed off to sleep at night.
I usually have to feed him once or twice in the night, and then I get him up at about 8am. The night wakings I can cope with, for now (he just has a quick feed and change if necessary and is all over in 10min and back to sleep no problem).
During the day he tends to stay awake from between 1.5 - 2 hrs before getting sleepy and going down for a nap (which can be from between 0.5 - 2hrs).
At night we take him upstairs at about 7pm, dim the lights, put his music on, change him, put him into pjs, have a quiet playtime and read to him until he seems sleepy, dim the lamp a little more, then we say good night, put him into his cot, and go down stairs. Then the crying begins and usually doesn't stop until we wait 10/15/20 mins (depending on his hysteria level) and one of us goes and literally rocks / feeds him to sleep. (Yes, he does wake up whilst being put down in his cot after that, but he has to have gone to sleep first for it to work). (No bath in this routine because he gets far too excited!)
He does occasionally go off to sleep first time, but he has been like this most nights for a few weeks now.
Please Mumsnetters, what can you see in my list of things that is wrong? Up too late, too many naps, have made rod for our own backs? Any ideas of things that I could try, or might it just pass on its own before I go mad? This is DC1, so I am doing my best, but a bit blindly.