Why won't my 10 month old sleep?!

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My son used to be an amazing sleeper and slept through from about 8 weeks, bliss!

Since he started rolling he's been a nightmare, and with every milestone the sleeping gets worse and worse.

We now can't get him to settle himself at all so we have to rock him to sleep. We then try and put him in his cot once asleep, sometimes works sometimes doesn't.

Last night was horrendous. Started getting him ready for bed around 7 and by 11 he hadn't been to sleep just screamed and even when we put him in our bed which works every time he wouldn't sleep.

I'm also 10 weeks pregnant and the thought of this continuing once we've had the baby honestly is making me depressed.

We've tried leaving him to cry it out, doesn't work. Seems like nothing I do works, what am I doing wrong 😭

Don't leave him to cry it out! It's cruel and doesn't work.

Im taking from the fact that you tried that that you're happy to let him cry a little bit, so i would recommend controlled crying, where you go in at increasing intervals to settle him down until he goes to sleep. Make sure he's fed, dry, the right temperature, not sick and not teething, do a soothing bedtime routine, put him down in the dark with white noise, and let him get on with it.

Thank you for that, I don't need to be made to feel worse than I already do. We've tried the bedtime routine which always did work, leaving him to cry was a last resort and isn't something we would normally do.

What else have you tried? Controlled crying if done properly usually works really well.

My little one was the same around that age. He is now 14months.

We used to give him his dinner around 5.30/6. Give him a bath between 6.30/7. (In his bath I used asda's bedtime bath liquid) Then get him ready for bed teeth cleaned and cosies. He then went into bed with a night light projecting stars on his roof and then his door was closed and I read a story from outside his door.

It took my little one about 2 weeks to get used to it. He never cried like a heartbreaking cry but he was upset by it but by the time I was reading the story he knew I was still there and was fine. He is usually asleep by the end of the story.

My little one did this until he was fourteen months old and then we tried him in his own bedroom (previously tried but didn't work) and he just went to sleep. They will all do it when they are ready and unfortunately there isn't much you can do until that point. Don't panic you aren't doing anything wrong. For some reason as a parent you are treat as a failure if your child doesn't sleep through the night (from my own experience) and it's wrong, you are not a failure and it's a common thing for children. It's hard work but one day it will all just click into place 😊

Hey. I think this might be some sort of phase/regression... at least I hope so as I'm going through the exact same thing with my baby. He's 10 months, coming up for 11 months and it's as if the past few weeks he's totally forgotten how to sleep.
I'm really hoping it just fixes itself. No advice sorry but hopefully someone will come along with some! I'm finding it so stressful x