Please please help. My lo is nearly 11months old and for the last two weeks has been waking in the night. She has always been an excellent sleeper and slept through from 8 weeks. The only thing we can think of that has changed is that two weeks ago she learnt to both roll and crawl. This affected her naps big time as unless she was asleep/nearly asleep she would roll and crawl back on her hands into sitting, where stuck she would cry. I tried to put her back on her back and she'd do the same getting more and more frustrated and tired. This over the last few days has been getting slightly better as i've let her have a little cry and then she goes off herself (found her on her tummy asleep, although normally she sleeps on her back). The biggest problem is the night wakings. I'm on my knees as she will wake several times a night and if she has had a good chunk of sleep she is so wide awake she wont go back off for two hours (rolling crawling in her cot and crying if you leave the room). When it first started we would find her sitting in her cot (supposedly stuck) but now she's lying down when we go in but is still waking and crying. I've tried PUPD but that doesn't stop her waking on average four times a night. She is off her food (probably teething) so we have been giving a small bottle of 4oz but sometimes she doesn't drink this which makes me think she's not hungry. I took her to the dr's today and she's been given a clean bill of health. We sometimes give pain relief but more often then not she goes back to sleep without any. Here is a typical day in the last two weeks:
7.00am wake, 5oz bottle
8.00am breakfast (has refused this the last 4 days)
9.45/10.00am nap (1 hour average)
12.00 Lunch
2.00pm 5oz bottle
2.30pm nap (half an hour to an hour if lucky)
5.00pm tea
6.30 half a bottle, bath etc
7.00pm other half of bottle and bed (this is earlier by half an hour if she's had a bad afternoon nap)
7.45 wake up (often shushed back easily)
9.00pm wake up (same)
10.00 or 11.00/11.30 (slighly more angry by now, sometimes we give a bottle here, she can be awake for a while)
2.00-3.30 (this is the big one where she will take two hours to get back to sleep and is wide awake chatting/pointing etc.
We really feel this has now become a habit and don't know what to do. She has been a good sleeper so must be able to self settle. We keep the lights off, put her down when she stops crying etc etc. But how can we stop her waking?! People keep saying let her cry it out/use controlled crying and i'm so tired i'm considering it. I think with PUPD she's learnt that if she cries she gets picked up, if she stops she gets put down. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Thanks for reading (long post i know)
