ds is 8 months old and was a great sleeper up until 2 months or so ago. He usually goes down to bed asleep at 7 (falls asleep by himself in his cot) then we sometimes get a cry late evening or 1 in the morning...then anywhere between 4-5am he wakes up crying so i give him his dummy and he normally looks like hes gone straight back to sleep but tewn mins later he is wide awake kicking his cot rolling around, this goes on for about an hour then he starts crying and cant seem to fall back asleep by himself so normally results in me rocking and shhing him, he's normally back asleep by 6 then awake for the day around 7-7.30, however the nights he does this waking early morning he is so fussy and i can tell he is over tired throughout the day. this waking is happening 5/7 days a week. i have tried the whole getting up with him at 5am but he is not happily awake i can see he needs more sleep and cant work out why he is waking, ive tried feeding nappy change white noise, but it just seems like he has to have an hour of awake time where he doesnt know what he wants then he finally falls back asleep!
during the day he normally takes 2 naps one around half 9 and one around half 1. they last anything up to 1 and half hours - 2 hours normally ones a long nap the other a short. i see no pattern in his naps and his early wakings. for example days he's had 2 lots of 2 hour naps he somtimes sleep through till 7 other days he'll do his half 4 wake up! days he barley naps he still wakes then or on the odd occasion sleeps through!
to make it worse i went back to work 2 weeks ago and have to be up at 6am anyway o my days are starting at 4am most days and the having a long days on the wards! thankfully im only in 3 days but its still getting to me!
any advice would be great, or anyone going through the same wouldd be great to here from you!