Night Wakings during PU/PD with 13 mo. old

[coredhead]

Hooray! We finally started PU'PD with our 13-month old son, Adam. We had to start sooner than we thought b/c we all got sick and I could not get up to put him back to sleep as I had been doing since he was 6 months (Accidental Parenting- nursing, rocking then cosleeping later in the night with nursing all the time during cosleeping). Anyways, my husband started yesterday with Adam's naps and it worked beautifully!
First Nap- 30 min. doing PU/PD; Adam slept 1 hour 10 min.
Second Nap- 20 min. doing PU/PD; Adam slept 1 hour 20 minutes
Bedtime- 26 min. doing PU/PD; Adam's first stretch of sleep was 2 hours 47 minutes
Then his night wakings were at 10pm, 12am, 2am, 2:47am, 5:10am and 6:23am. He talked in bed until we got up at 6:47am.

I put him down for his first nap today (hubby now has the bug and is ill) and it only took me 15 mins.!!!!! YIPPEEEEEE! He is currently sleeping and had been sleeping for 1 hour 13 min. already! We are thrilled with the progress and wanted to address the night wakings. Because we have all been sick (vomitting, diarrhea) we chose to have Adam cosleep with us last night and not do PU/PD yet. Was that a major mistake? How should we handle night wakings after Adam has been sick? It's very difficult to know if he is hungry/thirsty after being sick all day and not eating much. THANKS!

[deckchariot]

well done on using pu/pd - so glad to see you're having success!!!!  I would say that at his age, if you just do the pd part, it may be easier on your back!

In terms of the NWs, I would handle them the same way you've handled naps just to maintain the consistency.  In terms of assessing whether it's hunger/thirst or not, you'd have to use your mom instinct on that one.  Take a minute to assess his cry and his body language to see if it's different from what you encounter the other times you're doing pu/pd. 

hth
michelle