We thought we were getting there with our baby and he was starting to sleep through the night regularly from 7.30-6.30, not every night, but most nights. I finally started to feel human again!
But now for the last week or so and pretty much since his first birthday he won’t sleep! He goes down ok but then wakes up about every 30 minutes after this until about 12 and then maybe sleeps until 2 or 3am and then if he wakes up again he is a nightmare to go back to sleep, and often it will take me hours. Then he wakes up exhausted and is irritable.
He seems more clingy than usual and really grumpy. And he has always been so loving but and still is but he also seems to get frustrated and smacks us, which I worry he will do to another child, I do tell him off when he does this and makes it clear It’s not good.
We haven’t changed anything, like his routine.
He was never a great self settler, despite our best efforts. But I finally thought he was doing it and now it’s worse than ever.
We have a lodger who we don’t want to wake up so we haven’t done the cry it out method but I am thinking we will have to try.
His day time naps are also shorter now and like 40 minutes at a time when before they were more like an hour or so at a time.
And finally he is a really light sleeper, he wakes up at the slightest noise.
As you can probably tell I am at the end of my tether and exhausted. Any ideas really would really be appreciated!