I am looking for some advice as I am literally feel like I cannot cope with my babies sleep any longer.
We have the same bedtime routine every day.
Dinner / bath/ story/ bed between 19:00-20:00 but he is rarely asleep until gone 22:30/23:00 by which point I am exhausted and usually at breaking point.
At bedtime he is showing signs of being tired , cuddling blanket etc so I make his bottle and put him in his bag into our room which has the night light on ready.
He almost always starts to fall asleep having bottle but no matter what I do he will not sleep and he ends up in this awful “ trance” of screaming / crying hysterically , his eyes are closed and nothing will comfort him and I mean nothing.
He will won’t respond to my voice , trying to cuddle or comfort him makes it worse.
This will carry on for hours if I let it.
I up having to wake him up to get him out of this state and that requires going to another room usually and turning lights on etc which wakes him up and we start all over again. When he does eventually sleep he will wake up an hour later in this same trance like state. I have slept about 5 hours over 3 days.
I am seriously worried about him and also exceptionally stressed out having to deal with this every night. Does he need to see a doctor ? What am I doing wrong? Has anyone else experienced this?
and don’t ask me about dp, he sits on the sofa with his fingers in his ears but that’s a whole other thread.