Anyone else’s 9 month old become a twat for sleeping? The past couple of days my little girl has decided she doesn’t want to sleep, we’ve been doing the whole routine during the day with two naps, 3 meals and 3/4 bottles. She went down to sleep at about 6:45 last night, very kindly let me watch the England game and woke up at about 12. She screamed the house down, we gave her an extra bottle, changed her nappy, rocked her, gave her a dummy to see if that helped but nothing she ended up wide awake bouncing away, then eventually went down at 1:30! Which means I’ve had probably 3 hours sleep max, as I don’t sleep well anyway. Her front teeth are coming through so I know that she will be a bit out of sorts because of that but she’s never been this bad with other teeth.
I’m exhausted, and this week it doesnt help I’ve hurt my back so I’m in pain, exhausted and past the point right now. And the exhaustion is effecting my fiancé as well we are both tired so end up snapping at eachother. I just need to know if I’m doing it all wrong or is this normal?
Sincerely a very tired, overstimulated and overwhelmed mam
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Yes!! Most nights I ended up taking him in the car to get him to sleep, as he just wouldn’t settle back down.
This happened from around 8.5 months to now and he’s turning 10 month next week.
How much daytime sleep is she having over the two naps?
We’ve found 2.5 hours works perfectly for ours, so we follow this :
Wake up around 6:30-7.
Nap 1 - 9:30-10.
Nap 2 - 1-3
Bedtime at 7
And he’s stopped waking up as much! He’ll cry for a bottle around 1am and 4am but is still half asleep so goes straight back down xx

Hiya I think you're experiencing the 9 Month sleep regression I had it go on for three weeks last year, it's really hard especially when you're tired but keep pushing through it will get better xx