What has happened to my Champion night sleeper?

[EloysH]

Poor Baby.    Oh dear.  She's in the wars! 
((hugs))

[Bryony]

Oh dear!  Your poor LO and poor you. Hope she is better soon xxx

[sherry lynn]

Oh my.... good thing you took her to the doctors. Poor mom and Abi, I hope she gets better quickly.

[~Natalie~]

Oh my!  Poor little Abi.  So much going on in her mouth/throat area, no wonder she has not been sleeping.  Hugs all around.

[skatty]

Poor baby, great that you got her to the doc, I hope she is better soon.

[* Paula *]

Thanks ladies 

Antibios seem to be working, she is far less cranky today.  Fingers crossed that she has a good nights sleep.

[becky1969]

Ah, poor little one! With a little luck maybe that molar will get thru by the time the antibiotics do their work, and you'll get a week or two of sleep before the next molar hits. 

[* Paula *]

She is still drooling like mad, not sure if it is still her throat, the thrush or if it is the teeth.  Thankfully she does not see too bothered by it.

We had another marathon night waking last night from 3-6am.  She was not doing her usual though, she was howling with laughter and squeeling.  It was a hearty laugh as though she was being tickled.  Not sure what was going on there, don't know what she thought was so funny but when I went to check on her, she was sitting on her bed with a huge grin

Fingers crossed we have a better night.

[* Paula *]

Ok these night wakings are driving me mad.

She is better now.  Finished her antibios and is back to her NW's.  Last night it was 12am to 4am.  The night before she slept pretty well, but still woke a few times.  The night before that was horrendous.

I really don't know what is going on.  This child used to be a fantastic sleeper and now it is awful. 

Both Nap and Bedtimes are becoming a nightmare again, where she cries cause she does not want to go down, even though I know she is tired.  She cries, but if I go in she just gets hysterical.  I need to just stand on the outside of the door and shhhh her, and she eventually settles.

What am I doing wrong?  She seems to have 1 good night out of 6 and I am trying to survive on 4-5 hours of sleep a night, some before midnight and then a few hours after 4am. 

[charmie]

{{{{{HUGS}}}}} Paula.  I don't have any suggestions unfortunately 

Could you take her to the doctor to rule out trush and throat pain??



xxx
charm

[sherry lynn]

Paula -
I only have two ideas.
1. that she still sick
or
2. You need to move her nap time up. I'm not sure if nursery would be willing to do it, but the only time we've ever had marathon NWs is when something is way off on the A time. If she wakes around 8 I'm thinking a 12 nap is just too close in A time. If nursery will not allow you to push the nap out maybe try waking her earlier? I'm guessing she needs a bare minimum of 5 hours A time. Probably closer to 6 hours given how long she has been on one nap now.

What do you think?

[~Natalie~]

Bug hugs Paula!  I can't imagine how shattered you feel.

When James is teething badly (like the last 2 weeks) he also gets terrible SA.  The only thing that works for us is wi/wo and it works like a charm.  We used to think that us going in would infuriate him more, but after 15min the first night he all of a sudden went silent and laid down.  Now when he kicks off it is only about 5 times of doing the wi/wo before he settles.

[EloysH]

What happened with the canines?  Did they come through? how many?  - maybe there are more? It could be teething again.   Surely you are doing everything right, and there's just comething going on again like teething.  Do pain meds help?

[sherry lynn]

oh, yeah, Eloise, I had that in the back of my mind and forgot to mention that too. If she only has a few canines then likely there are more.

Natalie - now James has more teeth than Lyle. We still only have 8. Errr.... he's been showing symptoms for forever though. I'm guessing that they are goign to come all at once.

[~Karen~]

Paula - Just wanted to send lots of hugs and hope it doesn't go on for much longer