please help, ds screaming for up to an hour and pulling himself up to cot bars!!

[alibo]

ds is 10 months, and has suddenly decided he wants to flip onto his front when put down to sleep. he has always slept ok, and goes to sleep no problem when put down on his back or side, up till now. he has suddenly kneeling up in his cot, but hasn't worked out that to go to sleep he needs to lie back down!!! he has been crawling for a while, but this has just started happening at nap and bedtime. last few nights he has been tired enough at bedtime, but once in his cot, he's all over the place pulling himself up and rocking about, that he's getting even more tired and worked up, and last night he howled for nearly an hour. this is so unlike him, as once put down and tucked in, he'd just go on his side a bit and go to sleep. he's in a grobag, but still loosely ptting a cellular blanket over as its quite cold at night. any advice on how to handle this much appreciated.

hhheeeelllppp!!! mumsnet advice is the best advice you can get!!

When my dd started doing this I ditched the grobag, and got cot bumpers!(unless we are camping that is, when she seems to settle in it no probs? and you don't do that in winter anyway)

I figured she was trying out all the stuff at night that she'd learnt in the day, the attempted crawling and wanting to stand and the grobag only hindered her....and thus she let me know she was awake! (especially in the morning!) now minus grobag, she has learnt to lie down again whilst in cot and pretend she's going to sleep, (sometimes she stands up before I leave and I put her down again) until I leave the room, then I often hear her rattling about by herself, but eventually she settles and goes to sleep by herself, FYI my dd is 13mths, hope this helps?

This probably isn't much help but I think ds went through a stage of something like this about the same age. The only thing I could really do was go into him and quietly, calmly lie him back down again. I must admit I am also in the (probably bad) habit of staying with ds until he falls asleep and perhaps just putting my hand gently on his back, patting, etc. If you keep lying him back down he will hopefully ultimately get the message!

How did he fall asleep in the end? Was it just exhaustion or did he actually settle himself?

alibo, i cant give any advice but just thought i would make you feel not so alone in this... my dd 10 mth is EXACTLY the same!! its a fight every night and i must lay her down about 50 odd times before she is that tired she has no energy to lift her body up again!!she sits up and stands up so i would like some advice too, before i have to resort to tying her down lol i think all you can do is just keep lying him down everytime he gets up, its tiring for you but it wears them out eventually

xxx

thanks for replies; last night i think he jst lied down and fell asleep exhausted. i eventually after half an hour stopped going in to lie him back down and left him to it, even though he was howling; i just felt i couldn't do anything else. he then woke at 2am kneeling up crying, so i just lied him back down, still on his front, and left him to it again. he didn't cry for very long before he went back to sleep. today has not been too bad,; its taking him at least half an hour to get to sleep at naptime, after a lot of changing positions and crawling around. just hope he is getting the hang of it, and that tonight will be a bit better!! here's hoping!!!

alibo it is a good idea to ditch the grobag, i got a fleece sleepsuit from matalan, because i was scared of dd tripping up with the grobag, i am dreading tonight when it all starts again, and sorry to tell you but dd been doing this for a few weeks now... its indepenence for ya im afraid they think they are missing out on something!!

xxx