Just wondering if anyone has any ideas about this one. My DS is just 9 months and has only slept through a handful of times. During the day has has two naps at regular times. I can consistently put him in his bed awake and he rolls over and goes to sleep within a minute or two. I feed him around 6.30 and then put him to bed in the evening. Generally he feeds to sleep, but often he is awake when I put him down. Again, I can just put him in his cot and walk away. He might cry for a minute or two, but then he goes to sleep by himself without any cuddling or rocking. However, in the middle of the night he wakes up and goes bananas.
This all started at about 7 months when he started to crawl and he began to wake up a few times in the night. I tried CC for nearly three weeks but it made no difference at all. In the end I started feeding him again as I reckoned that maybe he was more hungry than previously. His activity levels had massively increased and he was refusing to eat solids. Feeding him back to sleep worked, but then he started to wake a bit more frequently, possibly because he began to like getting food in the middle of the night. So, about 3 weeks ago I thought I'd stop the night feeds and tried CC again. Again, CC hasn't worked, in fact it seems to have made things worse. He doesn't seem to want to eat but he just becomes completely hysterical. He was screaming for an hour and a half most nights, with me going in to check every 5,10, 15 mins. Pretty brutal for him and me. Have now abandoned CC and feel awful for putting him through it. For the last few nights I have just held him until he has nearly gone to sleep and then tried to put him back in his cot. It's taken an hour and a half both nights. So, the question is, does anyone have any ideas what is going on and how I can get him to go to sleep quicker?
Sorry, this has turned into an essay.