How to cope when awake at night with 10mo

[finlaythecat]

My 10 month old DS has been waking for 2-3 hours from 1am or 2am for the last few weeks. We co-sleep and he’s not upset to be awake, he just crawls about on the bed, looks around, babbles etc.
I’m coping ok with the lack of sleep in general as we can have a lie in in the morning as I’m still on mat leave.
I’m not coping very well with the time when he’s awake in the middle of the night. I find it so lonely and the multiple attempts to get him back to sleep really get me down, as well as causing me to feel resentful and angry towards him.
I know it’s not forever, and things will improve but can anyone share their strategies for coping mentally with this?
Thanks

Do you still want to co sleep? If that’s his only night waking, tbh I’d probably just try to get him in a cot in his own room. At least then when he wakes you’ll still be asleep unless he cries for you/milk to get him back to sleep. Probably not the response you wanted, but better for you for when you go back to work! I’m still on night waking stage too, I know it’s tough, but i honestly cannot wait until he sleeps through and goes in his own room! Appreciate not everyone feels this way though

When this happened with my 3 yo, I discovered that the nursery she was attending from about 10.30 to 3pm reach day during the holidays, was putting her down for a nap the cheeky lazy fuckers

So she wasn’t tired enough to sleep through.
I’d specifically told them that they weren’t to have a nap. But clearly that’s when the staff had their break

What I mean is, have you looked at/reconsidered his day time naps?

Bed guards OP, they're your friend.
What time does dc go to sleep?

My little girl has just gone 11 months. I don’t have any tips but I just wanted to say my little girl went through this at 10 months. Was wide awake in the middle of the night, I used to find it frustrating as whatever we tried she wouldn't go back to sleep, she wanted to crawl around and babble. In the end we just left her to it and when she was ready she would go back to sleep. Bed guards might be a good idea so you can try and sleep while she wants to do whatever she wants to do. But it does pass, I think it lasted a couple of weeks for us. Now at 11 months she’s just refusing all naps and bedtime 🙄

I'm in the EXACT situation and you have my sympathy. Thos 90 mins/2 hours in the middle of the night are lonely and frustrating.

We're about 3 weeks into this but DD slept excellently before so I'm praying it's a phase. I've assessed day naps and I'm pretty sure shes well fed with solids/milk so it's a waiting game now.

Once DD wakes I try to quickly settle her but if it doesn't work we go to the spare bed and she gets penned in to a safe space and she just flops about getting comfortable/clapping/chatting until she eventually drops into a deep sleep and I move her back to her cot.

I'm considering being a bit more stubborn in leaving her for a bit longer before going in to her as she can self settle very well but I just can't listen to her crying in the dead of night.