We moved him into his own room a week ago because he is a very light sleeper and I was sick of spending every night not daring to even roll over in bed in case it woke ds up, silently hating Dh for breathing so bloody loudly. It's been a huge relief now not having to worry about all that.
Problem is that he is still waking up during the night but not settling back to sleep. We are exhausted. Please can you look at his sleep pattern and give suggestions?
8.30pm - bath and bf. If he's still not sleepy after this then one of us will read a story to him which calms him down, then we rock him to sleep aiming for him to be asleep by 9pm.
(wakes frequently for rest of evening but self settles).
12am - wakes for bf.
(wakes and is settled by Dh).
4am - wakes for bf.
(wakes again usually around 5ish, settled back to sleep by Dh).
8am - wakes up. If he is bf straight away then he goes back to sleep until 9am, if he isn't then he will wake up for the day but be tired and grumpy (and still cry until he is bf).
The times when I bf him are when he won't settle at all without it, he just starts crying and crying until he starts retching. At least one of the times he wakes up we get him back to sleep only for him to wake up again 10 mins later. He eats lots of solids during the day and drinks water from a cup but won't drink milk from a cup or bottle. He has a dummy for sleep but will keep spitting it out and crying until he is bf.
He's almost 11 months old.
I would love to hear any advice you have
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