My eight month old was a great sleeper in his moses basket. Started sleeping through about 8-7 around 3/4 months. Transitioned well to cot at 6/7 months and carried on sleeping well with an earlier bedtime and wake time, around 7.30-7 usually. Bedtime routine always the same. He is crawling and has been since 6 months, stands, is cruising furniture and can climb stairs, so basically has had 3 months of full of major developmental milestones and is still going trying to stand unaided etc.
He is weaned now and has three meals a day, a savoury and sweet course and a snack item, plus around 25oz of milk (he is on prescribed allergy formula). He naps at around 9am for 1-2 hours and again at around 3pm for 1-1.5 hours (wondering if this is too late??) with no problems, either in his cot, car seat, pram etc depending on if we are at home or out.
At bedtime he has a bath, pj's and feed then to sleep. He is always very very drowsy or almost completely asleep when i put him in is cot, wondering again if that's a problem? He then goes to sleep well and stays asleep until about eleven to midnight. Then that's it! If I feed him, he will drink it, and still wake up again around 2/3 and 4/5 and feed again and drink it too. If I don't feed him, he'll still wake up at the same times and will grizzle and cry. I cut out milk and replaced with water per HV advice but he will wake and drink that instead and go back to sleep. I don't think he's hungry as he wakes in the morning without crying for food and has plenty all day long, plus he can't be hungry every 2 hours! I am wondering if he has some sort of feeding to sleep association in the cot and relies on it to fall asleep again? If so how do I go about getting him to self settle? Also, when he stirs in the night, he travels around the whole cot and bangs his head - hard, often bruising - and cries and that wakes him up again!
Sorry for all the rambling! I know he's a good baby but that 11-6 stretch is driving me crackers!