How can you teach them to lie down???

[AnnamariaHun]

9 month old son started crawling/pulling himself up in cot and since them he would not settle down and a nightmare child cries as soon as i try to leave him alone in his room but when i go in, he just wants to play and sit up, this we are trying to deal with but what's worse is when he tired himself out in the cot, he falls asleep sitting and as he hasn't worked out how to lie down,i have to go in and lie him down.
Can somebody suggest a method to teach him to lie down himself or will have to do this until he's 18???
Will this phase ever pass???

oh yes just wanted to add, if i try and leave him while falling asleep sitting hoping that he'll work it out somehow, he gets soo frustrated and grumpy that he starts screaming and the vicious circle starts all over again

Interested to see if anyone has any answers here as my DS has just worked out how to sit up and the past 2 nights has woken about 4 times - each time I find him sitting up in the corner of his cot doing a confused-sounding grizzly-cry. Is quite funny except when in the middle of the piddling night!

I just reposition him and generally he goes back off to sleep with minimal fuss, not entirely sure he even wakes up fully each time. I'm assuming it'll just pass - like when he started rolling, but any tips to speed it up would be welcome!

Sorry this is a very vague and most likely unhelpful response, however here goes!

My DD went through this, both when she learned to sit herself up, and when she learned to stand. Each time it became trickier to settle her in her cot, but it didn't last very long. With the standing up, I used to just nip back in and put her down again gently without engaging in any conversation. I'd say probably two weeks max, and then the novelty seemed to have worn off for her.

It will pass, my 10 mo DS stands up and for a while i had to lay him back down again, for him to pop right back up again i might add, but now i leave him and he eventually plonks himself back down on his bum and then lies down and goes off to sleep (usually on top of covers and head where feet should be!). Has a good attempt for my attention first though, about 2 mins of crying/shouting.
I thought too that I would be lying him down forever and wrestling with him but one day i noticed he pulled himself up on the sofa then sat back down so i knew he could do it. so i sat on the bed with my back to him and left him to it in his cot and then magically he just did what i've described!

I tried the laying him back down again thing that strawberrie did, but it went on and on and on for weeks and he found it was a game, laughing when he got up (40 times in a row grr). So I got fed up and left him to it.
It was horrid though when i first did it, i hate to hear him cry, but found sitting in the room where he could see me but not looking at him helped us both deal with it.

Are they in sleeping bags? I had same problem w ds2 falling asleep sitting. I took him out of his sleeping bag and he stopped straight away.

just wanted to say that finally after 4 month of doing the pu/pd which he thought was a game and carried on during nights and became a joke

on his 1st birthday i had enough and so i just sat down in the corner and let him cry and work it out himself and obviously he did and just made me realise that i should have done this ages ago and now i just put him in his bed and leave the room straight away and although he cries for a few minutes, he always settles himself down and SINCE THEN I NEVER HAD TO GET UP AT NIGHT SO THANK YOU. I'VE GOT MY SLEEP BACK

We spent the first 2 nights of this going in and lying DD down, was over 50 times the 2nd night with DD wailing every time she stood up. Then I asked on MN what I should do and the resounding answer was leave her to it (that & that we were bonkers for going in & lying her down -PFB), so we did and she took a further 2 nights to work out how to lie down. It will pass...