9 month old sleep habit

Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone could help my almost 9 month old has suddenly decided she doesn’t want to sleep in her cot only on me all night. My back is killing me as a result and I don’t know how to get her out of this habit and back into her cot which she used to be fine with. Everytime I put her down she wakes up☹️

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I'm in the same boat had been happening for the past month. She used to sleep through the night in her cot now I'm up 2-3 times a night with her and she has to be on me in my bed. I'm glad I'm not the only one but I too am searching for answers

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I hate to break it to you but it's natural for baby to want that. My baby would lay on me nursing pretty much all night from 4months - around 13months. She is almost two now and still like the nurse laying on me but is starting to realize she's getting to big for it to be comfortable for her. Very bittersweet! At some point (like 6months old) I started to nurse her to sleep on my chest but when she falls asleep and unlatch I would slowly roll her off me. Safe sleep 7 cuddle curl is the best position when done correctly!

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Sleep help 😭😂

I’m coming on here to beg for some advice for my little one’s sleep again.

He’s 18months old now and hasn’t slept properly in over 3 months

I don’t know what has happened, he was always a great sleeper and loved sleeping/bedtime. He used to go straight into his cot with a bottle and fall straight asleep. Over the last few months his sleep has gone south.

I have tried speaking to health visitors and doctors but I haven’t had any help.

He will no go into his cot. I’ve been having to drive him around to get him to sleep and that was somewhat working but now as soon as I try and get him out the car he’s awake. I’ve tried calmly staying in his room rocking, singing reading but he will not have any of it. He will keep going until 11/12 each night until he crashes. My partner works away normally so it’s all on me and I can feel myself going mad. He won’t nap unless it’s in the car either so I truly don’t get any time to myself 🫠

What else can I try? I’m desperate

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How do you redirect your anger?

How are we redirecting our anger/annoyance at our other halves because I'm on the absolute verge of blowing up or crying.
It's just a bunch of little things I think that have added up and I keep apologizing for being moody but then more things happen, at this point I could honestly take the baby and the dog and go.
For example our baby has silent reflux and has had colic, I ask OH last week if he's putting the water in and then the formula because when I looked at some of the bottles he made they were just over 120ml instead of 150ml So i asked how many scoops were in it, he said 5, I said you've not out enough water in for 5, he said he had. Then today I've been on my way out to do the weekly shop, he's putting formula in the bottles before the water, so I've said you're not supposed to do it that way, he said says who, well me, Google, the midwife, the health visitor, the fucking back of box, he chucked the formula back in the box in a huff and then said are you going now because your doing my head in I've only just got in from work - 1) do it properly 2) I asked him if he could not spend 45 minutes upstairs when he comes home from work because I needed to go and pick something up at 6:30 and he got in around 6:10 normally he comes down around 7pm so he was already in a mood. I told him that's probably why the baby is crying in pain if he's not making the bottles correctly.
Then we're running out of formula and forgot it from the shop so I said I think it'll last til tomorrow he said he dropped some bottles because he was doing it with one hand - I do everything with one hand. I think I've been the loo once without the baby, I eat my food with one hand even though we normally eat together, there isn't much I don't do one handed including making the bottles.
Even when he's off work I feel like he might as well be at work, I don't think we've had a conversation longer than 2 minutes for about a week, we've got a meal booked for Saturday and I just want to cancel it, because I no I'm going to be the one who eats one handed and he'll say just put the baby down - then the baby will cry and then everyone looks at me. I don't think he's once tried to soothe the baby off to sleep, he's got no issues staying up past midnight when the baby comes to bed with me but when he's got the baby it's a different story, it'll be midnight on the dot and the baby will be handed to me whether I'm asleep or not, like tonight baby is 9 weeks so trying to get him into a routine so put him to bed upstairs he was crying so I went up, soothed him and came back down, then again crying I'm in the middle of doing something he's made no attempt to get up so I've got up again. 3rd time baby crying, not even a flinch from him.
Over the last few weeks he's been having the baby until midnight and bringing up but over a week he forgot to bring something up with him, once it was hot water so I've got a screaming baby but I've got to wait for the kettle to boil, then it was wipes not helpful when there's an poop explosion at 2am and just things like that.

So sorry for the rant, but I just feel like he's doing it wrong on purpose so he doesn't have to do it, get a grip.

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Bedtime for my little man was 7:30pm and always has been since he was younger than what he is now. He’s 22months.
He still has the same bedtime routine… but now, decides to stand up in his crib, throw his dummies out, shout for us and just mess around in his crib until he just collapses in a heap at 9:30pm.

Is this a phase?? Will it end 🙏🏻

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