My little boy has never slept brilliantly, but after we sleep trained him at 9 months he definitely improved and we had a few weeks of decent sleep. Since he turned 1 at the end of November, his sleep has been all over the place - he will often wake for a long period in the night (1.5-3 hours), he’s generally not upset, just chatting to himself or lying awake. We’ve night weaned him so will go in periodically and tell him it’s sleepy time but he rarely goes back to sleep until at least an hour and a half after he’s woken.
On top of this, he’s started getting upset at bedtime - we used to be able to put him down and he’d roll around for a bit, possibly 15 mins or so, and fall asleep, but in the last month he’s got really upset, to the point of being sick. It’s not every night though, which is strange.
He naps well in the day, having between 2-2.5 hours sleep, tends to go to bed at 7, so I don’t let him sleep past 2.30 to make sure he’s tired enough. We’re starting to cut down to 1 nap a day, but he’s already only doing 10 mins about half 9 and then 2 hours 12.30-2.30, so not much different cutting it down.
Is this a phase, or am I doing something wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.