Standing up in cot

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DS is 9 months tomorrow and in the last few weeks has learnt to stand up and so everytime he wakes up (or we try to put him down for a nap) he pulls himself up. He doesn't seem to know how to let himself down so you then need to go back in and lay him down. He then screams and stands up again and the cycle is usually repeated a about 20 times. Anyone have any tips on how to resolve?

it's called a phase. And a bloody annoying one at that. I think it's a 'ooh look aren't I clever' then 'ooh I'm a bit stuck' then 'waaaaaah'.

I can't remember what we did. I think in the end, you just leave them to it. Maybe show him how to bend his knees to fold back down. It is v v v v annoying.

(also see if you can tuck him in tightly with his blankets though if he is houdini-like (mine were gggrrr) it won't take him long to figure out how to wriggle out of them!)

I would go in reassure and encourage him to work out for himself how to lie down.

Otherwise it becomes a fun game of stand up, scream mummy comes in - again and again

Within days or weeks he will work it out for himself anyway - He will be running at top speed before you know it.

Oh, I remember this phase (not entirely fondly ).
I think we just had to wait until he figured it out himself.

A bit like when he first learned to roll over onto his front, but couldn't get back again... ah, fun times

Not much help, but I really do think it's just a case of waiting

He's obsessed with standing! He woke at 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 last night and each time pulled himself up straight away. I tried to ignore him but have to have on eye to what he's up to as don't want him to fall and hit his head which he has done once. We've also just noticed that the mirror is opposite his cot so half the time he thinks he has an audience (in addition to me and DH is bed) so will move that pdq.

Pick up/put down is what got me through, until I just gave up and co-slept because what's a full-time working mum of a reverse-cycling bottle-refuser to do?

oh god, hideous phase! only lasts about a month though if i recall correctly. was awful though! ds would stand up and be half asleep but still stood up and crying for us to help him. it deffinitely stopped by the time he was 11 months.

One useful bit of advice I got to get through the phase was to help ds to practice sitting down during the day, so away from the stress of the night time challenge.

yup - phase. i had the same problem with dd, now just over 1. i ended up just leaving her to it, as intervening just made her annoyed as she thought it was play time

once she learnt to sit down herself, it passed

Ches, I love that description! Is me and DS to a T! He goes on strike all day whilst I'm at work (also FT, has never taken to the bottle) then guzzles all night to make up for it. He starts off well but by 12 or 1 am is usually in our bed, despite DH protesting. Even paid a fortune for sleep training but then couldn't follow it through as I just can't leave the little lamb to cry, not when I know he is just hungry and all he wants is the breast. Just praying that this will pass before I go mad through sleep deprivation!

Oh I remember this phase, once they learn to sit down themselves it passes. I used to release his hands from the cot and lower him to show him how to do it!!