11 month old crying at bed time

[Cocomandarin]

She’s been a bit odd with sleeping lately.

firstly she hardly sleeps in the day and it’s a fight to get her back to sleep after insisting ten minutes is enough.

she has napped better the last 2 days, but both bed times she has started hysterically crying when we sit down to give her her bottle to sleep, we’ve always held her a while until she nods off then put her in her cot. It’s not unusual that she doesn’t want the bottle but she just doesn’t settle at all and spits her dummy out.

She keeps sitting up and looking at the door, then I lay her back down and she cries actual tears. I try holding her in different positions and cuddling her. She eventually conks out after I really cuddle her and she buries her face in my chest.

I keep thinking maybe she’s unwell or something but she seems fine all day until this. It’s really upsetting me because she’s inconsolable!

any thoughts?

Sounds like she might have just hit that stage where they realise sleep means no more play time and she wants to be up where the excitement’s happening.

You could try really wearing her out before bed. I found 1 to 18 months a really battle with my youngest. We’d do what we could to wear her out in the late afternoon. At 18 months we just let her drop her nap and sleep improved dramatically from there