Sudden sleep changes - help!

So my 7 month old was falling asleep on us (no judgement please, this has happened from an early age and I'm very aware that we want to create a routine where he moves to his own room and goes down sleepy - we have a whole host of other things going on and have been advised to let that settle before trying to change things up) at 8-9 pm and sleeping through til 7-8am. He now goes off about 7, wakes about 8 and is then awake through til about 11 (very unhappy that whole time, cried at me the whole 3 hours last night) and then crashes again only to wake up a couple of hours later for a cry, and then every time he loses his dummy for the rest of the night. Anyone else relate? There is an awful lot of stress coming off me at the moment which I'm sure he feels and I'm trying to manage, but it's there. Nap wise he has wanted more sleep in the day, and at first I thought he might be poorly or teething so let him, with worse results, so now I'm limiting him to an hour in the morning and maybe a bit longer in the afternoon. It's not helping! I'm on my own at the moment and so sleep deprived on top of all the stress, I can feel myself slipping

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Oh goodness hard relate, the 7/8 months sleep regression is killer ❤️ Please don’t feel anyone will judge you for cuddling your baby to sleep - I would certainly ignore them if they did! This sounds so so tough and it’s most likely caused by all sorts of developmental things, NOT anything you are doing or your stress. I’m with you, it feels like we’ve tried everything from less day sleep, more day sleep, later bed, earlier bed, more naps, less naps. If you’ve tried it all, I honestly think my best advice would be to ride it out and stop trying to ‘fix’ it. I’ve had to do that as I felt my sanity plummeting. I know it doesn’t make it any easier whatsover, but searching for the answer is truly exhausting, on top of everything else you’re dealing with. Sending you so much love, an unhappy baby is so tough, but sleep has improved before and it will again 🥲❤️

I’m so sorry you are suffering! We are going through a patch of bloody awful sleeping too. I’ve always fed my little one to sleep so I know how you feel, I like to think of it as a good thing though, imagine being cuddled to sleep every night! How lovely! Have we made a rod for our own back? Who knows and who cares, we have given our babies what they need and want ❤️ hope you are okay and that the disturbed sleep goes back to normal very soon, sounds like you are doing a brilliant job ❤️

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Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
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