DS is nearly 15Months, he used to sleep brilliantly at night (apart from the odd night).
Now, for the past 5 weeks, he is either waking up intermittently during the night screaming in a rage and jumping up and down in the cot or crying out in his sleep.
In the past month he has;
Gastroenteritis – Start of Nov
Started walking – Start of Nov
Got his 7th tooth – last week.
Getting his 8th tooth – now……
During the day, when I look after him he goes to sleep on his own, usually in his cot with no problems (unless he is overtired).
At night he goes to bed, again with relative ease, but can wake up again crying anytime from 10pm onwards.
Last night he was in bed for 7.30pm and woke up crying again at 12.30am, in a rage and jumping up and down in the cot. DH got annoyed at him and ended up bringing him in with us (argh!!) We both have to get up at 6am for work every morning so we really need sleep. Usually he will go back to sleep straightaway but sometimes takes an hour.
He is only sleeping through about 1 in every 4th night at the moment, even those nights he is crying in his sleep before settling again.
I give him pain relief when he needs it i.e. teething, but I don’t want to be giving him medication when there is nothing visibly wrong with him.
I am a bit stumped as to what wrong, and I REALLY don’t want to make his nights visits to our nightly bed habit. I have even put an item of my clothing in his bed to alleviate any SA that may be lurking.
He has been on a consistent 1 nap since he was 12 months, before that he went between 1 or 2 naps for a month.
