Hoping someone can offer advice... My ds is 13.5mo and for the last few weeks has been impossible to settle for bedtime. He's not as bad with dh but with me he'll just scream until I pick him up again.
He was never a great sleeper (lots of ap - feeding and rocking to sleep until we did pupd at around 7m) but was self-settling well and by 10m sleeping through most nights. I don't know what caused the change. I went back to work at 9m and he's settled we'll with the childminder and my mum. And he's been walking since 11m. The only things that coincided with this change was the recent heat wave and his 12m injections.
Our routine is usually:
Awake 5am (would love this to be later but like this for a couple of months
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Nap after about 5 hours for 2 hours, so 10-12 or 12.30
Bath 6/6.30 then bf and bed
The cm sometimes does a 2nd nap so today he napped 10-11.30 and 2-3 (he'd never do his at home). Neither scenario seems to make much difference with bt. He's been so bad at settling that I've reverted to feeding him to sleep, and tonight it took 2 hours to get him asleep into the cot (dh was out).
I think this may be separation anxiety as it's only really me he's like it with. What strategies can I use to get back on track?
