Sleeping is out the window
Baby (10m) used to sleep amazingly but this week has been hell. I’ve just spent the last 2.5 hours trying to get him back to bed. Every night this week has been a battle. He goes down as usual but is waking at 11 and demanding our bed. After about 40 minutes I manage to get him back down but then he’s up again at 1 and that’s the biggest battle of the night. Taking hours to get him back to sleep then awake again around 5/6. I’m getting about 2 hours of sleep at night because I get so frustrated with how tired I am I can’t get back to sleep and end up lying awake, feeling nauseous from exhaustion and I don’t know what to do to get him back to his normal sleep pattern. I can’t function on this little sleep 😭
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Teething or unwell? I’d normally say has his 24 hour sleep needs changed but it’s a very quick change from good to bad sleep it seems unlikely
I’m sorry. That sounds so tough. My eldest was like this. He’d be awake for 3hours at a time and then when he finally went back to sleep, that was me wide awake until the rest of the night.
He was the reason I ended up training in infant sleep.
Can I ask, how much does he nap in the day. A really common reason for lots of awake time in the night at this age is because they get too much day sleep and it basically means they aren’t tired enough to stay asleep at night. It could be due to something else but naps might be something to look at
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Sounds like Split nights due to more daytime sleep than he needs (he's growing and his sleep needs might be reducing) you can cap naps or he might be ready to drop a nap, or bring bedtime 30 mins later
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Baby (10m) used to sleep amazingly but this week has been hell. I’ve just spent the last 2.5 hours trying to get him back to bed. Every night this week has been a battle. He goes down as usual but is waking at 11 and demanding our bed. After about 40 minutes I manage to get him back down but then he’s up again at 1 and that’s the biggest battle of the night. Taking hours to get him back to sleep then awake again around 5/6. I’m getting about 2 hours of sleep at night because I get so frustrated with how tired I am I can’t get back to sleep and end up lying awake, feeling nauseous from exhaustion and I don’t know what to do to get him back to his normal sleep pattern. I can’t function on this little sleep 😭
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