Sleep awful??

Anyone’s baby’s sleep gone out the window in last few weeks? He was never a great sleeper but when he turned 1 on 3rd September he started sleeping through. He was on 2 naps -45 mins each.

Now he is up so much between 2-5am, nothing settles him and I feel like I’ve tried everything. He is between 1-2 naps a day depending on wake up time etc as he can’t always manage to stay up for lunch nap if he been awake lots at night so I do the 2 naps on those days. And 1 nap if we has an okay night and 7am wake up. From temperature, teething stuff, medicine, new duvets, in bed with me, no white noise, white noise, later bedtime, earlier bedtime, literally everything…. Any advice? Please 🙏🏻 feeling so upset and like I’ve failed badly x

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Aww you haven’t failed!! We are in the same boat right now and we are just riding it out as I think a lot of it is her teeth and some sort of sleep regression along with transitioning from 2-1 naps a day, sometimes she’ll have one but only sleep for an hour and other times she’ll have two naps, it’s up and down at the moment! Xx

You haven’t failed. He is just going through something and he needs your support a bit more. We have just had like 6 months of not great unpredictable sleep but my wee one is just coming out of it now. We co slept/ nighttime breastfed and used a crib in our room to get through it and now he is in his own bed and mostly sleeping through. They won’t go through this forever and you can always get a good routine in place when he looks like he is more developmentally ready to sleep though. In case its helpful - what i do with my wee one is very much let him dictate the sleep but supported. So he still does two sleeps mostly but he can sleep as long as he wants (unless we have somewhere to be) and i just adjust his bedtime based on his last nap. No nap, Then we are trying to go to sleep at 7pm, normal nap then i look for sleepy cues between 7-8 and late nap i make sure he has a bath that night at like 7:30/7:45 and know it will just take him a bit more cuddling to get to sleep.
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Sleep awful??Anyone’s baby’s sleep gone out the window in last few weeks? He was never a great sleeper but when he turned 1 on 3rd September he started sleeping through. He was on 2 naps -45 mins each.

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