My 7 month old baby boy has been a nightmare to get to sleep recently, having to comfort him multiple and I mean multiple times once he’s in his cot before he stays asleep. He hardly ever soothes himself so we rock him until he’s drowsy or almost asleep and then put him down, sometimes he nods off sometimes he doesn’t. He’s also waking in the night and staying awake for 2-3 hours before going back to sleep. He normally goes to bed at 7, wakes around 4 to feed and then back until 6:30. He’s on 98th centile and has always needed that feed in the night. But at the moment he’s in bed for 7, it’s 9 before he actually settles properly he’s then waking around midnight and not going back to sleep until about 3am. He’s never been a great at napping in the day, he’s a bit of a power napper having 30-40 mins 2/3 times a day. Some days he’ll have a couple of 1-1.5 hour naps but very rare.
I’m guessing my question is why isn’t he sleeping?! Is this just the second sleep regression or do we need to make some changes!?
He has the same routine every night, tea at 5:30, bath at 6:30, bottle and bed by 7!