HELP! 9 month old USED to be a good sleeper...

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She was sleeping right through from 7.30 - 6.30am most nights. It was glorious and life seemed easier. She got a nasty cold which has now gone but suddenly started waking up for hours and hours during the night unable to settle.I'm pretty sure it's not teeth as she seems well during the day. She goes to bed nicely at 7pm ish with a story and a bottle and sleeps for 30mins - 2 hours. Then she is wide awake crying, shouting out etc. Generally won't settle for another 3-4hours and has to be picked up. She's resting during the day - I wake her after two hours (she would sleep for hours more if i didn't) in the morning and she sometimes has a rest in the afternoon but not always. Last night..bed at 6.30pm (not afternoon nap so tired) awake at 9 - 11.30pm and then awake again at 3.50am until 5.15am. Had to wake her this morning at 8.30am and she has now been asleep since 10.15. She's just started crawling well and pulling herself to standing. Sorry for long winded email - am tired and desperate! Is it worth trying pick up/put down? thanks.

Does she go to sleep awake - if you know what I mean?

Do you put her in the cot wide eyed and say "night night" and leave the room and she sorts herself out?

If so and she's waking I'd guess at teething?

The other thing it can be is that my LOs did whatever they'd learnt physically in their sleep - so I'd go into a howling child crawling round the cot in their sleep or (this was worse!) standing up in the cot asleep but unable to lie down again! I'd just have to re-arrange them and they'd drift off (this was after I realsied they were actually still asleep - took a while ).

But if you are still feeding her to sleep and she's sucking herself into a stupor and ending up in the cot once she's 90% asleep that could be the prob. I always feel when that happens it's as though they wake up a bit, open their eyes and think "c**p! How the hell did I get here?!! Last thing I remember my mum was here/or I was downstairs - waaagh!!!!"

If the latter is the case try settling her in the cot awake so that when she wakes up in the night she'll (hopefully) sigh, turn over and go back to sleep on her own.

Thanks so much. I do put her down awake during the day for naps which is fine and semi-awake at bedtime. I have now stopped breastfeeding and she eats three good meals a day and has enough milk so never wakes hungry. I think you're probably right about the physical thing...she's on the go all the time now she can crawl and is desperate to stand and walk. When I go in to her she is crawling around the cot! She's asleep now (hooray) so fingers crossed for a better night. It's such a shock after a having a month or two of relative nightime peace. Thanks for responding...i'm new to all this and great to have some reassurance.