DS slept with me for 6 months before I started transitioning to the crib. CIO took about a week and worked well for a month or two, he was sleeping 8 hour stretches at times! The last 3 weeks have been awful! Same routine...nurse, put him in crib drowsy and he would cry for maybe 10 minutes and be asleep before. Now I nurse and put him down and as soon as I go to leave he rolls over, pulls himself to standing and screams. Eventually the screaming becomes a cry which is when I know he sat down, then the cry becomes more of a whimper and then he'll get quiet...we're talking a span of a couple hours sometimes before this happens. However, he won't lay down! He will just sit there! If I go in to lay him down he starts to cry and we start all over again...every now and then he's tired enough that i can lay my hand on him and he'll go to sleep. I put him to bed at 7:30 tonight and it's now 11...he's slept a whole 30 minutes at this point which was when i first laid him down! Naps are the same routine and often we'll get to like 4 pm before he'll take his first nap which ends up being about an hour...that stinks for a one and only nap of the day! I have resorted several times to driving around just so he will take a nap! He's tired...probably overtired at this point but I don't know how to catch him up on his sleep. I swear he falls sorta asleep sitting up sometimes too. Normally by 2 one of us will go get him and bring him to bed just so we can all get some sleep.
I just want my good little sleeper back! I have NO IDEA what to do with him at this point. If he would just stay laying down or figure out how to lay down by himself he would go to sleep fine.
Any advice is appreciated! I am lost...