10mth old will not lie in cot constantly moving around help!

[JacksMummy25]

Bedtime total nightmare these days, up until month ago went to sleep fine after bedtime bottle put in cot and slept all night. Now he is still awake after bottle, we tried putting him in his cot awake but he will not lie down, he is constantly moving around even in a sleeping bag and blankets. We have tried placing a hand on him to try and stop him rolling over and crawling around but it doesn't stop him. We are at our wits end he just doesn't want to go to sleep. It takes us over an hour every night to get him to sleep doing a mixture of feeding in his cot, letting him crawling around and stand up until he is so tired he finally gives in. Does anyone else have this problem, has anyone managed to solve it? Btw my son has never gone to sleep on his own during the day, its either in the car or buggy.

is he crying when he is in the cot? If not, then I would leave the room and let him get on with crawling about until he goes to sleep - there is no need for you to stay and watch his antics!

My DD is nearly at this age and has begun doing the same, including climbing up to standing and crying there endlessly. If we finally get her to go to sleep she will wake constantly through the night and do the same thing. We are both working FT and so finding this completely soul destroying! Sorry not to help, just wanted to say you're not alone!

We have this if ds isn't tired enough. He fell into a habit over Xmas of him having v long naps 2h! Which is wAy longer than his usual 45 mins!
We cut down the day time sleeps and he's more or less sorted. He has no more than 3.5h sleep in the day max.

Thanks guys this helps a lot, good to know we are not alone, anf good point about the day time naps. Because ds has never gone to sleep on his own during the day I am beginning to feel by taking him out in buggy or car I am almost forcing him into naps he may not actually need now which is disrupting bedtime. To make matters worse he has just started nursery as I am going back to work in March so I am sure we are in for some interesting times ahead!!

You might find he gets more of a routine fir sleep at nursery. A friends high maintenance ds has benefitted hugely from nursery!

So glad I logged on this morning after a weekend of hardly any sleep! Our DS is 10 and a half months and started crawling about two weeks ago and now bedtime is a complete nightmare! He is wide awake at 7pm after his milk, bath etc routine and so I put him in the cot and leave the room, it takes between 15mins-30mins for him to go to sleep and that includes me going in at least three times and moving him, he is either trying to stand, sitting upright at one end or crawling which is not easy in a sleeping bag!! Then during the night I find him sitting up, on all fours etc and I'm not even sure he is awake!! Finally he may wake now about 5am and sometimes I can get him to go back to sleep and other times I bring him in with me as I can't cope with 4am debates anymore! I think he may need more food during the day, then I think I should drop his 9am nap but whatever I do I just can't seem him sleeping through anymore! He is also a dummy user so it doesn't help that he loses that during his crawling antics in the night!

I posted this on someone else's, sorry for being lazy:

I moved my son into the travel cot in the lounge as I was heading to bed, as I could no longer sleep with his shenanigans in his cot once I went to bed and I was getting exhausted.

The sides are soft so I couldn't hear bangs and he slept better and so did I. Once he started sleeping better at night again (outgrown this stage) I moved him in with his sister.

I live in a 2 bed flat though and everything is on the same floor, so I could hear him from my bedroom ok though.

I think providing they're not crying, just leave them to it to be honest, as it is a phase and it'll pass. If they do cry, just go in and lie them down again without talking or eye contact and leave again. You may have to do it many times but they will get the message in the end and will soon out grow this habit I promise you x