1 year sleep regression?!?!

For about a week now my 1 year old (turned 1 2 weeks ago) has been waking up in the middle of the night anywhere between 12-3am and cries and won’t go back to sleep for hours and even when I bring him in to bed with me he wriggles and flaps his arms and twists and turns for ages…… what is going on? He literally won’t go back to sleep for HOURS!! I’m exhausted and trying to work with such little sleep is NOT THE ONE 🫠 anyone experiencing the same & has advice or tips? Plssssssss x

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I’m going through the sleep regression to she’s waking a lot earlier than she normally would but not to bad like 6 instead of 7 but she’s also waking more in night than normally would I can get her back to sleep thankfully but I have to go in so much and get her out for cuddle and she normally goes straight down awake after milk and goes straight sleep like hour it’s taking her to go sleep atm x

I'm pretty sure this is a developmental stage. It may end on its own, but what I did was, around 13 months after I got tired of sitting up for hours for no reason, I implemented a strategy and made my husband do the same: when she cried, we would give her a few minutes, maybe 3. Sometimes she would stop. If she didn't, I go in a check on the essentials. Diaper, drink of water, comfort toys, paci, etc. Give her a hug and a kiss, but don't pick her up. I talk to her a bit, then tell her it's night night time, and mama will be right next door. She would get upset but after I left, she would usually settle within 10 minutes. If I stayed in there, or picked her up and rocked her, it would be 3 hours or more.

I found she was worse if I went to check in. If I walked in and then left again, she would go back to screaming and it would take longer to fall asleep. So I watched her on the monitor and only went in if she really started wailing in distress.

Thank you for the tips! I’ll give that a go tonight….. 😅❣️

I’m going through this now. My son has been awake for an hour currently (it’s 3am) and he wakes up every single night and has done for the last few weeks. Tonight has been particularly bad, he went to bed at 7 and woke up at 8 and was then awake for 2 hours. Went back to sleep at 10 and then woke up at 2 and is still awake now. He’s had milk but he just won’t sleep and I am exhausted. We went through a really bad regression when he was 7 months that lasted for 7 weeks and I honestly dont think I can get through another one if it was like that again!

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