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[quote=Anonymous]I could use some help resolving a sleep problem that's popped up in the last few weeks. Several nights out of the week now, my 9 month old either fights bedtime or wakes up later in the night and refuses to go back to sleep. In both instances, he stands up in the crib and scream-cries until either I or DH comes in. If we sit with him, he'll fall asleep on us but usually pop right back awake when we try to return him to the crib, then the whole process starts again. Sometimes when we've come in, he's tried to play with us instead of falling asleep. If we try to wait him out and not go in, he will honestly just stand there and cry for however long it takes. He seems to have endless stamina for this - he'll even take brief breaks, sitting down for a moment or sucking his thumb, and then start up again. The end result is usually just DH sitting in the glider with the baby sleeping on him until some point hours later when he can finally be put back into the crib.

How can we get his sleep back on track? We sleep-trained around 6 months (Ferber) and it went fantastic, at bedtime we put him down awake and he'd just roll over, pop a thumb in his mouth and go to sleep. So this isn't an issue of a baby not knowing how to self-soothe. Also, he isn't "stranded" standing up or anything like that - he's been pulling up to stand for a couple of months and knows how to get down without any problem. (I've Googled and people often say babies who are doing this are stuck and don't know how to get down, so I just want to be clear this is not that.) There aren't any signs he's teething either. I'm at a loss here - I don't know what the problem is or what our options are for sorting it out, but the current state of affairs doesn't seem sustainable. Any advice would be much appreciated. [/quote]

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