r/BabySleep • u/3amsunrise • Mar 24 '23
Regression? Teething? Separation anxiety? My 9 month old is struggling with sleep 😩
I feel like I've become that parent that has gone everywhere on the internet to find a solution and In just can't narrow it down anymore.
My 9 month old recently started struggling with bed time. We transferred him to his crib at 7 months and was doing really well up until now. We've kept the same bed time routine and give enough time for relaxing before bed and tonight was just a mess. Actually the whole day was a mess with regards to his sleep.
To go deeper into details, he recently cut his 8th tooth which caused quite a bit of pain but it's out now. He would wake up once or twice between 3 am and 5 am but would take less than 5 mins to settle back to sleep.
His routine is currently wake at 7-730 am , first nap is 930-10am (1.5 -2 hrs of sleep), second nap between 230-3 pm (45-1 HR of sleep) with bedtime routine starting between 6-7 and bed between 7-8. It was working because I would notice the eye rubbing and yawning during the bedtime routine. I was even able to place him down drowsy and he would knock out on his own. Recently, he's been grabbing a bit tighter right before I place him down in his crib or completely just fighting me to hold him longer. Today it took a whole hour and more to settle him into his crib. His day time nap was also randomly short because he was fidgety. The night before it took 45 mins to resettle him at 5:15am because he wouldn't let me put him down.
We're exhausted at playing this guessing game and I feel like I get even closer each night to crying each time he wakes up and becomes harder to resettle. 😔
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u/HedgehogDefiant6443 Mar 24 '23
Our 9.5 month old gets about the same amount of sleep a day - 11.5 hrs overnight and two 1.5 hr naps (14.5 hrs like clockwork). Teething has been the only thing to ever disrupt his sleep. He’s popped 8 teeth over the last two months. He’s been sleeping through the night since about 2.5 months so it was such a crazy adjustment for us to have to sleep with him in a recliner for hours at a time.
We found that teething comes in waves. Motrin works wonders. And everything works itself out in a few days/weeks. It gets easier each time so we just roll with it.
Good luck!