Help! Split nighter here 😪

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I need help 😔
My LO is 11 months. For the last 2 months on and off he'll wake for about 2 hours in the night (feel like it's most nights now).
He doesn't feed to sleep during the day but takes a bottle at night (7pm) and goes straight to sleep but tonight is a prime example of him then waking at half 2(pop the dummy back in)... wake at 3:10 and that's been him up until now where I've had to lift him eventually or I fear we'd be up even longer (usually don't lift him but I'm fucking knackered) even holding him now he's still fighting sleep.
He's showed no signs of teething so can't be that.

Any ideas?

He sleeps for about 1h 30 through the day which I know isnt great but I can't seem to get this any longer.

The time your child is waking and last 2 months, could they be cold? I've often put an extra layer of blanket on mine about that time.

Mine had much longer lunchtime naps at that age. Quite early 11.30am- 2.30pm (ish)- maybe sleeping too late in the afternoon? Just ideas...

Don't think it's the cold, he wears a long sleeve vest, sleepsuit and 2.5 tog in a 16 degree room. Sometimes stick a thin blanket on him as an extra. I've also been holding him for half a hour which isn't getting him to sleep either.

You managed a 3 hour nap?! I can only dream of such things 😭

Other thing is lunchtime meal (11ish), make sure there's protein. So beans, humous, meat, eggs etc. That helps naps and through the night (but harder to digest so lunchtime is better than evening).

I've religiously followed "little ones" for my children. 3rd child is newborn so a bit young to follow a routine (which is why I'm awake feeding now). But I can't wait until they're 6 weeks or so and then I'll slightly follow the 3 month routine, with some extra sleep.

We're now at 3 hours awake, I've given him another bottle and we're still up. He's not even happy awake. It's been 3 hours of moaning with trying to fall sleep. Torture.
I'll try the food thing and hopefully that helps 🙏

No clue I’m afraid but sorry your going through this.

my boy is 10 months and his sleep is a nightmare. We’re on 2 naps, i cap them around 1.15 hour each as normally if any longer were up all night.

randomly at nursery Thursday they let him nap 9-12 god knows how he did that I have never got that long! 2 hours max! Then he had a 30 min nap around 3 hours after and I picked him up and slept all night waking once for a feed.

we did normal schedule last night and I was up about 5 times 😩 so going to try more daytime sleep if I can but I don’t know how I can when/if he refuses. Maybe try if you can somehow get more daytime sleep which I know is so hard when they refuse!

i will say his sleep has gone down massively last month, I read online it’s regression time maybe it’s still affecting your LO? I also pick up during the night otherwise no way he would go back to sleep and I always want it as quick as possible! I keep wondering how others have babies sleeping through, I haven’t had that once yet it would be amazing

I've tried everything else so I will absolutely give more daytime sleep a go. If I have to drive around during the day for hours I'm going to do it because no sleep is torture😑

Could still be a regression I guess and I keep trying to remind myself it'll end at some point but at 4 in the morning when nothing you are doing is helping it's difficult to remember this.

He's now currently happy as Larry playing with some blocks while I sit here feeling like I've been hit by a bus 😂

its exhausting isn’t it. I’m trying a longer nap this morning and then a shorter one this afternoon but I’m doubtful. And it’s all well and good saying it but if he wakes up then he wakes up 🤷🏻‍♀️half the time I think there’s no actual reason to cause them

I always have to remind myself it’s not forever but I do always wonder when he will sleep through. I do think a lot of the time it’s habit but I have seen him put himself back to sleep so I know he can do it. But I just don’t want to have to do sleep training! Good luck for today!

My daughter is the same and has been for about 4 months now. She’s just turned 1. It’s awful. I’m just hoping she grows out of it soon. I’ve tried changing food times, bottles times, nap times and lengths and nothing has worked. I feel like a zombie all day every day and it’s affecting my 3 year old now as well. I just keep telling myself it won’t be forever.