Please help me! My ds has decided that sleep is something that he doesn?t need anymore. He?s 11mo and until 2 weeks ago was sleeping through the night and having two naps during the day of about 1 hour each. In total about 13 hours per day. Now I am lucky if I can get him to sleep for half an hour during the day and three or four hours at night. And this is all broken and very restless sleep. He thrashes about and wakes up crying and refuses to let himself go back to sleep.
He looks to be dropping off and then he will sit up or roll over or cry out, anything to keep himself from sleeping. He seems to think of it as a challenge he has to overcome.
I?ve tried co-sleeping, holding him until he sleeps, letting him cry himself back to sleep, going to him and verbally soothing him but not picking him up, leaving the night light on, cuddling him all night, but nothing has worked so far.
When he is asleep he is restless, kicking out and vocalising, rolling from front to back to side and seemingly not going into a true deep sleep.
He is teething, so I know that that is a factor, but nothing else in our routine has changed.
I don?t know what to do to help him And to help me too ? I work full time and I?m a total zombie from lack of sleep.