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11 month old having sudden nap issues...seperation anxiety?
Hi ladies,
Yet another nap thread! Just when you think you have things sorted with these bubs they decide to test you out again :)
My DS is almost 11months old and from around 7 months became a brilliant sleeper and napper....napping in the morning around 930am (wakes at 7) for anywhere from 45 min to an hour and a half, then napping again at 1/1.30 for 2 hours. I take him in to his dark bedroom, pop him in his suit and he goes off to sleep unassisted. However in the last week he has started sitting up and wailing when I leave the room...it started with the afternoon nap (morning was fine) but has now progressed to mornings as well. After I go back in and place him back down and pat him on the back he then goes off to sleep but I have to wait until he's really asleep before leaving otherwise he sits up and starts again (and this whole process is starting to take longer each time too). He's also woken once or twice in the night in the past week too and done the same thing, although last night slept through again no issues.
Is this seperation anxiety or could it be time to drop a nap? Developmentally he's crawling everywhere, cruising and starting to randomly stand up unassisted for a few seconds. I'm worried about giving him another sleep association by patting him to sleep (from a mum who had months of dummy issues and wakings every 45 min through the night!!) and yet I can't bear to hear him wail and see him on the video monitor sitting there with his arms out. Any advice is welcome!! Is it just a phase?
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