My 8 1/2 month old son wakes, and won’t go back to sleep?

And don’t lecture me about cosleeping, I don’t want to hear it.

We had been cosleeping since basically about 2 or 3 weeks after he was born (I got sick of it taking all night to get him to fall asleep, most nights he was up till 3am in and out of sleep every 5 minutes crying, he absolutely would not sleep in his bassinet or crib no matter what we did).

When he started to learn to crawl I decided it was time to try to move to his crib again. It went so smoothly I wanted to go online and yell at everyone whoever said cosleeping is bad and you’ll suffer when you try to move them to their own bed.

He was apparently ready for the transition. I put him down in his crib that first night, he went to sleep within 5 minutes. He got up at 3am, every night as was normal, I fed him, he went back to sleep in his crib. It went that well for about 2 months.

Now for the last week every single night he wakes between 11pm and midnight and won’t go back to sleep for about an hour or 2.
And it’s a hard hour or 2. I try to just put him back to sleep for about 20-30 minutes, to no avail. (I try, leave, come back, try again, leave etc) After about half an hour of it not working, I take him out, try feeding him, which seems to calm him, but then I try to put him back in his crib, and the same thing, he keeps standing up on the side and crying. I try for awhile, then I try bringing him into our bed, and that doesn’t work either, he does the same, tries to get unto his belly and crawl away, and he cries at any attempt to comfort him to sleep.

In desperation to see if it would work I’ve even tried just bringing him right into our bed immediately when he wakes up, feeding him, and just letting him stay with me. Still the same thing. No matter what I do he is up for the next hour, crying and upset and trying to crawl away.

Is it maybe a stage because he’s just learned to cruise and he’s so eager to move around? Did your baby go through anything similar?
Oh I forgot to mention we give him teething tablets too when this happens, thinking maybe that’s what’s keeping him awake, but that doesn’t work either.

He only seems to go back to sleep when he finally gets tired of being stopped from crawlign away. We also tried just letting him crawl around on one night for nearly an hour thinking if he got it out of his system he’d go to sleep and he was up anyway for an hour after that. Seems nothing works! lol.

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