Ds (8mo) slept pretty well as a small baby and until 4 months only woke once or twice a night. Then he started waking 3 times a night but would sleep from 6-8am then go back down for up to 2 hours from about 10am and then have a shorter afternoon nap. So about 4 hours sleep during the day. So it was ok.
In the last few weeks it´s got worse and worse until we´re here.. he wakes at 5.30/6am and no longer goes back to sleep. Mid morning I might get 20mins out of him, in the afternoon maybe 30mins max and both naps with crying and rocking or feeding to sleep (which he never used to need).
Then night time. He used to have a routine like clockwork, dinner at 5.30pm, bit of a play til bath at 6.20, out of bath by 6.30pm, breastfeed lying down with me and into bed (drowsy but not asleep) at 6.50pm. Now here I am with a baby who must be very tired as he´s been up since 6am with 50mins nap all day and yet it´s 7.15 and he´s screeching and playing and no signs of going to bed. 40mins ago he was sleeping in his pram, we put him into his bed and BING! eyes open, crying, arms flapping, the lot. So I tried to just sit next to his cot and pat his back but he was furious. So dh came in and tried to rock him to sleep but after 15mins he was angrier than ever.
We don´t know what we´re doing or how to deal with it.
I´m not sure if it´s important but although he doesn´t crawl he has in the last week or so started to want to stand all the time. All. the. time. And when he goes to bed he often has restless legs. Whenever we give in and get him up again from a failed nap, he grins from ear to ear as soon as he is on his feet, it´s obviously all he wants to do. I´m not sure if he´s teething, he has his two bottom teeth and has always dribbled a massive amount so I can´t say it´s down to imminent teeth..