DS is 15 months. He has had a NF until recently, and he still gets one sometimes when he is sick (which happens often!). Recently we've been giving him diluted formula at night which he has always done well with (because he has recently recovered from a cold and sinusitis so we needed to resume the NF during that period).
It has happened a couple of times in the past 2-3 weeks that he wakes at night, and will remain awake for a long time. Typically when he wakes, he will drink his diluted formula, and then we put him back down. Sometimes he chats a bit but usually he goes straight back to sleep. But recently some nights it will take forever. He will be silent for a while (10-15 minutes, sometimes up to 30) and then will cry hard. We go to him, he calms down, and this all happens over and over again. Sometimes he is just really unhappy and there is nothing that can be done.
I always assumed that it was really just discomfort. DS has had many food issues but despite that we NEVER had these types of NW's before. Never that bad. I also thought it could be teething. But the pain meds don't seem to help that much.
So last night, DH realized that every time those long NW's happen, is when DH goes to see DS at his NW. All of last week I was the one to go in when he has a NW or a NF, and he went back down like a charm every.single.time. He even STTN the 2 nights before.
So it makes me wonder... could it be SA, or related to DH going it to see him instead of me? It seems like a coincidence, because discomfort definitely seems like the issue to me, mostly because he is quiet for a while and then wakes crying again.
I've never really experienced SA with him or with DD at night, so I'm a bit clueless.
TIA
