One year old wakes all through the night - at wits end!

[MyBabyBoyBlue]

Hi ladies

My DS has never been a great sleeper and always needs to be rocked to sleep after a bottle and put down in the cot asleep...we have tried so many different things to get him to sleep and stay asleep for longer than an hour or so at a time but nothing works and we are at our wits end being very sleep deprived and absolutely desperate ourselves for some shut eye!

Any and all tips are very welcome!

What happens if you give a bottle then just put him down? Go downstairs, hang up the laundry then go check on him?

Is he teething and in pain if he keeps waking up ? What happens I've you go to him in the cot, does he just cry to be picked up or will he settle on seeing you ?

Yeah it hard work when they can't express what is distressing them, my DS in 14 months and only really started sleeping through around 11- 12 months, then his molars started appearing so back to waking up once or twice and a lot longer to go to sleep. Poor thing, they have so much to deal with for people so tiny and new.

If I put him down drowsy after a bottle he starts wailing as soon as I begin to lower him into the co5 and that just escalates, he stands up and cries until it's a scream and I pick him back up.

Whenever he wakes and cries in the night, he wants to be picked up and rocked, sometimes it's for hours at a time

Is there anything else you can do other than rocking which keeps him calm? Ideally something you can do lying down... does co-sleeping work?

I try patting, stroking, white noise and we do bring him into bed with us sometimes but he then just writhes around for hours between us wanting to play :(

Does he have a comforter or a bear to cuddle? Maybe rock until drowsy but not fully asleep then put down with comforter/bear and gradually reduce the amount of rocking over time?