QuoteReplyTopic: 11 month old refusibg to sleep Posted: 08 February 2012 at 1:58pm
Please help, i am at my witts end.
My DS is almost 11 months old. Previously when put in his cot he has settled himself off to sleep 80% of the time, the other times i just have to pat/shush him and he goes off to sleep. But recently when put in his cot he screams, when i go back in he thinks its a joke, he laughs and kicks his legs etc. I cant pat/shush him as he struggles out of my touch whenever i put my hand on him, so i leave the room and once again he screams. This goes on for hours. I know he is tired as he has just cut down to one day nap, maybe he is overtired? Last night it took 3.5 hours to get him to sleep, today for his day sleep its taken 2 and i have ended up getting him up. I am usually so upset and sobbing by tjis stage, i really dont know what else to try. If you have any advice please share as im desperate.
Ps i have tried leaving him to cry but find it really difficult and he doesnt seem to calm down.
I went through EXACTLY the same thing not so long ago and I was at my wits end too. All I can tell you is that it's a phase and it will pass! I just did whatever it took to get him to sleep...and mainly that was standing in the room with my back to the cot, lying him back down everytime he stood up. If I left the room he screamed, but if I stayed in there he didn't...and I much preferred that. Takes a lot of patience though!
I think it took a couple of weeks though and now he is practically back to normal and self-settling most of the time.
I put it down to a bit of separation anxiety and possibly one of the 'Wonder Weeks' periods.
Good luck - just remember you're doing a great job!!
Hi I was wondering how you were getting on as I am having a similar problem with my 9month DD and am also about to lose the plot!
We had the MIL come to stay for a month in March and she got a little unsettled then and wasn't doing great with her last day nap and was waking at about 5am, I would feed her and she would go back to sleep until 8am so not much drama. Towards the end of the stay she would start waking earlier in the night and then earlier in the morning. Two weeks ago she got a virus and was quite ill so she was held and was BF every couple of hours to keep fluids up (as told by hospital). Now she is waking practically every hour at night, not feeding properly and not eating as much as she used too. I am pretty sure she isn't teething but we are giving her pamol each night to get her settled. If I go in and pick her up she gets all wriggly so I can't even cuddle her back to sleep. If I leave she just screams and she also screams if DH goes in ... I haven't slept for 3 nights now and need help please!
How are things going bikebaby? Sorry i have o ly just read your post. I really feel for you. We managed to get our ds back to sleeping well and he started sleeping better than ever before. Recently he has been sick for a week so had a lot of rocking etc to sleep and got into bad habits again screaming and really being quite naughty when put to bed. I put a chair in his room and once he was put in his cot i sat in the chair and pretended i was asleep:-) when he played up i just sat there not looking at him. When he cried i did the same. Eventually he would lie himself down and go to sleep. I did this for every nap and nightime sleep. Sometimes it took 2 hours but i felt ok about it because i was in the room. After three days he started settling himself to sleep straight away so i no longer needed to stay in the room. Not sure if this will help for you but good luck, let me know how you get on
Thanks :) We are back on track for most sleeps. During the night if she wakes I tend to feed her cause I think she is hungry/thirsty. She is doing better during the day. We also put a chair in her room and sit there not making eye contact with her. I think she just got really unsettled from being sick, she is a baby that is easily overwhelmed so it kind of made sense. Glad things are back on track for you too
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