Sleep gone rubbish…

My LB has just turned 8 months and he use to go to sleep really well, would just place him down with a dummy and some white noise on (occasionally would stroke his tummy to help). In the last week he thrashes himself around onto his front and back onto his back, arches his back to climb up the cot, screams, cries, shakes his head. I sometimes have to pin him down and do “shhhh” really loudly. It can be taking up to an hour to go to sleep even if he’s super tired. I just don’t know what to do. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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My little man was doing really well since he moved into his own room, slept 7 till 7, would self sooth if he woke. In the last couple of weeks he's waking and needing us to go in. He also now wakes for a bottle at 5:30 like he used to, I feel like we're going back three steps!!

I think it's a mix of teething (his two bottom teeth are coming through) and the heat... xx

Yep exactly the same with my baby girl. I'm tearing my hair out over it as she's also hardly napping in the day now too! She's almost 8 months so I'm thinking surely too late for sleep regression but maybe as commenter above suggests it could be the heat? I hope so! If you figure it out please let me know hahah xx

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