9 month old waking in night and not going back to sleep!!

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My little boy has always been such a great sleeper and self settler and over the last couple of weeks it's literally all gone to pot 😫🙈
He's just over 9 months and up until recently was sleeping 6.30pm - 6.30/7am and if he did wake in the night was easy to settle and would go right back off to sleep.
I'm currently sat downstairs with him watching Mickey Mouse 🙄 as he woke at 3.30am and was having none of it when I tried and shushed him and get him back off to sleep. He was WIDE awake and talking laughing and squealing.
I had to bring him downstairs as hubby has to get up for work early and it was clear he wasn't going back to sleep.
I hate 'giving in' as I don't want this to become a habit, but he has a terrible cold and cough at the moment which is waking him up a lot in the night.
Anyone have any similar experiences? What do you do with your little ones when he refuse to go back to sleep? I feel annoyed I've got up with him and come down stairs as I've never done that before as I've never need to! I'm guessing when they are poorly or teething etc you have to make some exceptions right? Xx

Mine did that around the 10 month mark think it's another type of regression/developmental thing they go through.

At the time I read somewhere that, unlike other regressions, it doesnt permanently alter their routines so providing you dont start intorudctling new things to help them settle e.g bottle or playing, they will go back to how they were.

Mine lasted a few weeks which also coincided with a cold then he started crawling now he's back to normal sleeping through with no problems.

It was really difficult not to get him up but I just tried to at least keep in his room, calm, maybe a couple of books but mostly keeping him in his cot and stroking his head until he got bored of playing with my hands through the bars and went back to sleep.

Not sure any of that's helpful but just to know you're not alone! Good luck.

Yes it’s just a phase - as Elmo said I think it’s a developmental change, but it did seem never ending at the time.. I think it lasted about 3 weeks... she did it again at 18 months...!

Is he in his own room?

My DD is 9 months and does this sometimes. If she’s not crying I leave her in the dark (in her own room) and eventually she goes back to sleep. Going in to her just makes her more awake. She has stayed awake for nearly two hours before in the dead of night but she was just cooing and chattering a bit so not crying with hunger or anything that needed my attention. I can’t sleep properly while she’s doing this unfortunately but apparently it’s just a phase.

Can your husband wear ear plugs? Taking baby downstairs to watch telly definitely won’t help him to go to sleep.

I wouldn’t be taking him downstairs to play. Treat it as a night waking. My 9mo occasionally does the same thing but I keep trying to feed him (bf) until he nods off or leave him alone then keep popping back in. It’s takes up to an hour an a half sometimes to get him back to sleep but you need to keep things boring, dark and quiet. Just keep persevering with getting him back to sleep - my 9mo does it less now. It’s also a developmental thing. A couple of weeks ago my boy went through a phase of really bad sleeping - lasted about 2 Weeks.

Thanks for the replies guys!
No I don't want to take him down stairs to play we've never done it before it was just a one off and I don't want to get into that habit like you say.
Last night was much better he woke just for milk at 3am and after about 20mins of him patting was back asleep again so holding the other night was a random one off! 😂
These developmental leaps and phases really throw them out of sorts don't they 😫 All the routines you have in place....bam gone 😂 x

9 months was pretty much the only time my DDs brilliant sleeping had gone wobble. It lasted for about 3-4 weeks and then she reverted to her brilliant 13 hours. We have a spare room with double bed so put a bed guard side and bottom and we took it in turns to take her in there and found she resettled easily and slept til morning. I was worried we were creating bad habits but after a few weeks she slept through again and we never looked back . Definitely got us through a difficult time.