My son will be 13 months on the 16th. This evening has been particularly rough. It started with my pom escaping the fence during dinner. So I had to interrupt my son eating and go collect my dog. Then he decided he didn't want to finish eating or basically even start eating. I put him in the bath since that always helps. It helped until I took him out.
So I was trying to get him dressed for bed since he was just absolutely tired. Well while wrestling him to get a diaper on. He keeps alligator rolling. I just snapped and yelled at him. But he was so focused on his own screaming that he didn't even flinch.
I feel like a failure. After that I finally succeeded in getting a diaper on him then. Tried to nurse him to sleep like we usually do. NOPE. continued to scream and fight sleep. After about 10 minutes, I gave up and just put him in the crib. He fought sleep for another 5 minutes then crashed.
Earlier I checked him for a fever or anything physical that needed medical attention. He was just exhausted ๐
Around month 10 our had a time where he would wake up every hour, this was the worst time, this is when I also forced the wife to try sleep training which was equally awfull, but it gave results so he would start sleeping longer and sometimes even be able to sooth himself back to sleep.
What I can say it gets better with time.
Also it's the worst combination that your partner is away so you get no time to wind down at all during a difficult period, I really feel for you.