11 month old waking at 5am but still tired.

[Olivia1987]

My little boy is an awful sleeper. He’s never been great with his sleep and only slept through the night 4 times.

He’s used to getting up at 7 or 7:30am depending on how badly he’s slept during the night. The past 3 nights he’s woken up at 4:30am -5am. He’s got blackout curtains and a white noise toy. He’s never done this before.

I can see on the monitor that he’s still tired he’s rubbing his eyes and shaking his head. He’s not crying he just either sits or stands and moans. I go in lay him back down and he’s not having any of it.

If he slept through the night I wouldn’t mind so much but he’s awake every two hours. He’s tired. He sleeps fine in the day he’s getting so much better at self settling for naps he’ll have around two 1 and a half hour naps. Then he’s asleep at 7:30pm for night time.

We already have the community nursery nurse trying to help us get him more rest.

I’m exhausted and go back to work in a month I’m getting very stressed out because I don’t know how I’ll manage work and no sleep. It makes me not want to do anything in the day as I’m so tired and he’s miserable.

I need some serious help. This lack of
Sleep is really becoming an issue. I can’t function like a normal person.

as he's not crying have you tried just leaving him in his cot to see if he settles back down? perhaps you going in to lay him down is waking him up more?

hopefully its just a phase and he starts sleeping better soon xx

Just leave him? He might not properly be awake so you might be disturbing him.

Yeh I have tried to leave him, that’s when he stands up and starts crying. I don’t just rush in to him.
He sometimes does that at night where he cries out turns over and goes back to sleep. I left him this morning until 6:30am he’s very tired.