Hello all, I'm desperate for some advice on my 8 month old little boy, I feel like I'm going insane!!
He had always been a pretty good sleeper - he still has 3 naps a day and has been sleeping through perfectly for the last 3 months. Over the last couple of weeks things have taken a turn for the worse and I don't know what to do.
He has been on 3 solid meals for a long time and although his milk I take has always been a little inconsistent, he's always had between the recommended 16-20oz a day. He is now refusing pretty much all of his milk. He won't drink much water in the day either and, I don't know whether this is a consequence of that but I've noticed he has bad breath.
Since he was a couple of months old, we put him down awake for his naps and he's always got himself off to sleep, we've never had to rock him etc. The only thing we've had to do over the last 3 months is put his dummy in a couple of times in the night and that's it. He is still going down fine for his naps but is now waking between 30mins and an hour of going to bed in the evening screaming.
His front teeth started coming through a week or so ago which I thought might be the reason but medicine etc is making any difference and he's totally fine throughout the day and at nap time.
I thought it might be separation anxiety but he's fine if I leave him in the day and for his naps.
Surely if he was ill or teething he would be like this in the day
At night time we have to take him out of his room before he'll even think about calming down and if we even step foot through his bedroom door with him he'll start screaming again.
We've tried putting his dummy back in, putting a cot soother in, leaving him to cry a bit, everything and nothing is working. He can't be hungry because we've tried feeding him milk once he's up and he refuses.
I'm at my wits end with it.