11 month old fighting sleep and screams

[xamyrose]

Hi all,

So my 11 month old SCREAMS every time we try and put her in her cot.

We used to give her a bottle and then put her in her cot and she’d fall asleep on her own. We’d do this whilst white noise plays.

Now she screams when we put her down... no amount of us going in calms her down and we have to take her out and distract her to stop her from crying.

Today- she woke up at 7... went to sleep at 12 and woke up at quarter to 2 (in her cot and without and screams) but for bed time (we’ve been trying since 6) she is screaming every time we try. We’ve given her two bottles now!

What do I do to get her to sleep?

Just a note- she usually sleeps through but occasionally wakes... and gets herself back off or we have to give her a bottle to get her back to sleep

Feel your pain.. I've just come on to look for similar advice for my 7 month old. She's wide awake and resisting all attempts to put her back to bed and she does this every evening! Hopefully someone will have some suggestions!

I completely fell for you both. I’m no expert at all and without further information it’s hard to gauge what the issue could be.

It could be animber of things so ideally what you need to do isn’t narrow down potential causes such as, both babies are in the throes of seperation anoexty kicking in where they now know that you’re leaving their side and as why don’t have proper time perception they aren’t ever sure of how long you will be gone so they will scream and cry for you to come back. It could be teething or wind or still feeling hungry and restless towards bedtime. The only thing I can say for sure that worked for my dd was a strict (but also leniant) bedtime routine and nap routine during the day. If your baby isn’t becoming over tired before bed they will find it a lot harder to relax and fall asleep as they become distressed at how tired they are. Ideally up until 12 months babies should be getting something like 14-15 hours of sleep in every 24hours and typically that’s 11-12 hours at night and then 2-3 hours of naps during the day, the naps should be generally 3-4 hours apart and not exceed 4pm. Some babies do drop a nap at around 11 months (mine has) and she will do usually two hours late morning and not need to sleep until bedtime but occasionally she will have a ten minute nap in the afternoon at about 3.

I don’t have any amazing advice really and I’m sorry I couldn’t be more practical in terms of technique I just know it took us a while to find a cause for her fussing and upset (serperation and wind) to then start tackling it ans things are a lot better now.

Good luck to you both, hopfully someone will come along to help out a bit more :)

so many typos if your baby is becoming overtired*

Thanks notso. We will just have to keep trying but thank you for your advice and support.