our 14 month old has always been very good with sleeping & naps, very much a textbook baby with everything to be honest. At about 12.5/13 months he began to wake about 3 or 4 hours after his bedtime & would sit up or stand up screaming till we came in, I'm back working again & to save my sleep I did what lots of us do & took him in with us, he goes to sleep straight away. He also started having the occasional night where he wouldn't be able to go to sleep until 10/11pm sometimes. (His usual bedtime is 7.30pm) I pushed his afternoon nap earlier so that his awake time until bedtime was longer, this worked for a while for the late bedtime problem but didn't seem to have an effect on the occasional night waking. Fastforward 6 weeks and the night waking is every night, only settles when he comes in with us, I dismissed transitioning from 2 to 1 nap as he was still waking at the same time in the mornings not early mornings as many suggest they do when ready to transition. Only the last 2 weeks has he had problems with 1 or 2 of his naps so I started the transition from 2 to 1 naps about 10 days ago, so far so good although the last 2 days we have gone from 2 to 1 the last 2 days. The late bedtime problem seems to have been reslved with this transition (yay - so far anyway!) but he is still waking every night 3 or 4 hours after we put him down, sits upright or stands screaming until I get him, bring him in with us and he goes straight to sleep again but won't settle for love for money in his own cot. I'm going to try the walk in and walk out method tonight when he wakes and will continue until he hopefully stays asleep in his own bed but wondered if anyone had any other ideas about why he might be doing iot or anything else that could help?
He goes to sleep on his own (has a dummy) within minutes of putting him down for either a sleep or nap (now that the late bedtime problem is sorted anyway
so at a loss as to why he wakes similar time every night!
His routine now:
7am wake up
Breakfast etc...
11am Snack before his nap
11.30am nap at the mo, still transitioning so between 1.5/2.5 hrs)
2.15pm lunch
3.30pm snack
5.30 tea
7.30 bedtime
Other things to note: we are trying various medicine (Gaviscon & Ranitidine) at the mo as he has always been 'breathy with a constant cough' so we & the docs think he may have silent reflux, been on Gaviscon for about 5 weeks & Ranitdine for 1 week.
He has just started walking so lots of developmental stuff going on for him at the mo.
Any ideas or thoughts on it would be appreciated, I am dreading the next few nights of walk in walk out when he wakes but know it is time to do it so any help is welcome!
Thank you
Emily, mum to beautiful Harrison and expecting baby number 2 in Mar '13
