Please help we are at our whits end!!!
My 10 month old has started fighting her sleep so bad and it’s ruining us.
She has usually 2 naps during the day, sometimes 1. Usually in her pram or car seat whilst we’re out and about. I have to wake her up at 3:30pm at the latest (she would sleep longer) however any later than this and nighttime’s are a real struggle.
She has tea around 5-5:30pm, then bath, then a play, then bottle and bed.
On this bedtime bottle, she will just about fall asleep but then start arching her back, kicking us, screaming. And crying as if she doesn’t want to sleep. Although she is KNACKERED, rubbing her eyes, keeping her eyes closed, making sleeping whinge noises. We then can’t get her back to sleep until 10-11pm where she is just EXHAUSTED.
She is teething, but has been slowly for about 7 months. She’s cut 5 teeth in 4 weeks, they don’t bother her during the day but as precaution we give her calpol at bedtime incase it’s teeth bothering her.
She’s been crawling, standing, and cruising furniture for months and I don’t believe she’s near walking on her own so don’t think it’s this.
She doesn’t fight sleep in the day, it’s just bedtime where she starts arching her back and kicking us away even though she’s virtually asleep.
She never really finishes a bottle off, and she eats well with snacks so I don’t think it’s hunger.
She can’t self settle and I can’t leave her to cry it out because she just stands up in her cot.
Please help