My ds is now 11.5mo. He is a grumpy baby. He is slow to change, very persistent, refuses to give up, and when he cries he is very intense.
He goes down for naps fine, and after tweaking his awake time, he now goes down for bedtime nicely. Its overnight where I have a huge problem. He was always waking every 1-3 hours, but most recently upon putting him back down he will wake within minutes of noticing that I am no longer in the room.
NW usually involve me nursing him, or giving a bottle (if its been at least 3 hours) or patting his back to get him nice and sleepy again, PD and he would just roll over and fall asleep on his own. Now he will wake up within minutes of putting him down. If I try to put him back down, He will roll over, sit up, stand up, and scream at me (regardless if I'm in the room or not). This will go on for at least 1-2 hours before I will try nursing or bottle feed him again desperately hoping that he will finally fall asleep.
He can't self soothe himself at night, it seems, or he wants to be close to me and fall asleep on my chest. This never happened before.
Last night, this went on for 2 hours, then I had to take him out of the room, sit on the living room sofa in the dark, where he just rested his head on my chest and finally fell asleep.
I am going back to work in 2 weeks. This has to stop. Its as though he has separation anxiety?
Oh, and he won't allow my husband to put him to sleep.
Our typical day is:
w 7
A 7-10 (3hrs)
S 10-12
A 12-3/3.30 (3-3.5hrs)
S 3-4
A 4-8 (4hrs)
Sleep by 8-830
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
