Hi my lo is 10.5 months old, and is a happy easy going baby who is generally pretty content. He is very sociable and is happy to go with most people. He goes to a childminder 2x days a week and has a good attachment to her, and is never concerned when I leave him, but happy to see me when I pick him up.
He occasionally protests when I leave the room in the day, but usually only when he's tired or out of sorts.
In the last couple of months he has started crying & standing when put down to sleep at bedtime. before Christmas I'd sorted this by doing WI/WO, it took a few nights and he was staying lying down and going to sleep on his own within 15-20 minutes. But the last 3 nights he stays quiet when I leave the room for about 5-10 minutes then starts to cry. When I go in, help him to lie down, and then leave again he starts to cry really hard. I tried WI/WO again the first night and he worked himself up into a complete state. It took an hour for him to go to sleep. The last 2 nights I've stayed in the room, the first night he took 1/2 hr to go to sleep, last night was over an hour...
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I had had enough by the time he finally dropped off!!
Is it possible for separation anxiety to manifest itself only at bedtime? My mum reckons that because he's fine at other times, and content with his childminder that it isn't separation anxiety, he's manipulating me so that I stay in the room... I'm just not sure how to deal with it. I don't want to leave him to cry, but staying in his room for an hour waiting for him to go to sleep is not funny at the end of a long day!! Any thoughts?
He is in the middle of the 2-1 transition as well, and I think he stuggles to go to sleep straightaway if he's still asleep after 3pm in the afternoon. Today he's gone down for his pm nap at 1.15pm so hopefully he'll be more ready. He's also just had a top tooth through which has probably contributed - screamed when I touched it etc...
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Jenx