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16 month old lack of sleep - for 6 months!

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Sept21 · 19/01/2023 19:47

Hi, when my baby turned 10 months old he started waking up a few times a night again. I thought it was a regression and just before 12 months he slept through for a week (he had a cold may have been why) but then was back to waking up a few times a night after that. Since then he has slept the odd night through but hardly ever. Most recently he has been awful, waking up for 2-3 hours just to go in his cot and wake again 30 minutes later for e ample. Some nights I don’t actually make it to bed! Sounds ridiculous but he will NOT go in his cot even if I try every hour. Or other nights I get maybe 1-2 hours sleep. So we decided to drop to one nap recently only for his sleep to get even worse! He was fighting his naps for like 20-30 minutes and fighting bedtime for 1.5 hours some nights so we decided longer wake windows needed. However, as an example last night gave milk 6;45pm after being awake from 1:30pm, finally got him in to his cot at 7:45. He woke at 11 I got him back in his cot by 11,30 then was awake again by 12:30 and I was unable to get him back in his cot for the rest of the night even if I waited 2 hours before trying!’ We then got up at 6;45 so I was up with him for like 6 hours. Previous night he woke at 9 then would go back in his cot for like 30 mins-1 hour then be awake every hour pretty much. I don’t know where we are going wrong we don’t give him milk or anything during the night we haven’t for a long time and I really didn’t think his sleep would get much worse is why we dropped the nap. He does contact nap during the day which some people have suggested may be the problem… any advice on how to improve his sleep without crying it out and ideally not stopping his contact napping. We used to rock him to sleep but I only do that for his nap now, I just tap his back to get him to sleep during the night and before bed.

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LGBirmingham · 19/01/2023 19:53

Ditch the cot?

Sept21 · 19/01/2023 20:17

Co sleep? Or one of those beds without sides?

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Sleepymama20 · 26/02/2024 17:57

@Sept21 this sounds exactly like my DD....did things improve for you?

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