Really struggling with my little boy getting to sleep in the day atm. It’s like he’s so angry about going to sleep, probably fomo but he’s so clearly tired. Hes 6 months this wake and I find his wake windows between 2.5-3hrs.
Recently I’ve had to try new ways to get him to sleep, singing, rocking. He used to just fall asleep on me anywhere.
I now always take him up to a dark room and put the white noise on, put him in his sleeping bag and read him a story and give him his dummy. If he gets upset lying on his own I’ll pick him up and try to rock him to sleep and he has started getting so angry pulling my hair, hitting, arching his back. It feels like he’s so angry with me and fighting. I don’t react to him getting angry, just stay calm and continue to try and get him off which he eventually does. Hoping this is a phase 🙏
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I agree he could be overtired, we recently shortened the wake window & it helped a bit. But my LB also just doesn't want to be cuddled to sleep for naps anymore and actively fights it like you've described. Was a big change too because previously he loved being cuddled to sleep. Sorry to not have any advice!
ah okay, I’ll try putting him down sooner then!
thank you both so much! I have had a completely different day with LB going down today, he’s been so much better with 1.5hr wake windows! I just couldn’t see it before that he was overtired 🤯

That's so good to hear!