Hello! I have been reading this board since day one but never registered! Well here I am and I have a major issue!
My son has just turned one and has always been a pretty good sleeper with only a bit of sleep training needed at points of routine change or after illness/teething. He can sleep by himself, doesn't have any props, paci etc and I don't go running into him if he's just having a bit of a moan.
He's recently gone to 1 nap which we've been trying to iron out issues with but it seems like everything is really messed up and nothing I try is working!
He was having one nap at 11am-ish but has increasingly been waking up after 45mins - 1 hr completely hysterical (still lying down, eyes closed, inconsolable) and sometimes unable to get back to sleep. He also never seemed particularly tired for that nap so i've tried an early lunch and extended A time today but he woke up hysterical after 30 mins and I had to shhhh/pat or WI/WO back to sleep. He's now been asleep nearly 2 hours total if you don't include the 10mins of crying and sshh/pat. Problem is though, he is in childcare 3 days a week and they don't even attempt to get him back to sleep, so I feel like I spend 4 days a week dealing with him waking up crying only for it to be ruined when he's in childcare. Also, the childminders are complaining that he can't even stay awake to 11am, that he's exhausted. Sometimes I pick him up after work and they've put him to bed at 10am?! After barely 4 hours A time. Well today I got him to 5.5hr awake time with no problems.
Then for the past month we have night wakings EVERY night. Most of the time around 4/5am. I'm not counting these as EW as he is crying and unhappy, whereas when he wakes up he chats and sings to himself and his happy. When he has a NW he goes back to sleep after major WI/WO or Shhh/pat, but this has been for weeks now. I've tried early BT, later BT with going back to 2 naps, i've tried giving meds before bed incase it's teething, dietary changes incase it's his reflux/dairy intolerance playing up... I feel completely exhausted as when he's waking up I am most often not able to get back to sleep as i'm anticipating him waking up again.
Please help! There seems to be so much going on here that I have no idea what to do.
