Hello! My son turned 15 months on July 21st. Ever since about 2 weeks ago, he started waking up in the middle of the night at different times, could be 11 pm, 12 am, 3:30 am or 4:30. He did it once before he turned 15 months, and every night for a week now. He wakes up and won’t go to sleep for over 2 hours. We are exhausted!!!
Before,he was a great sleeper, because we put him on easy since he was born. He can sleep up to 11 straight hours. Some nights if he would wake up at night it would be for a quick feed and back to sleep right away.
But now, no matter what we do he won’t settle. Not the breast or bottle (I bottle fed him last night to see if he was hungry and drank no more than 3 oz), not cuddles, definitely no pu/pd or patting, not sleeping on my chest, nothing. He falls asleep and wakes again at 5 min, 10 min, 20 min. After so many times of trying to fall asleep and crying, he ends up so exhausted he can’t settle at all.
I know this sounds crazy and like I am all over the place, but I had to try all of this things because the usual feed, didn’t work. Or the put down, cause usually if he stands on the crib I just keep putting him down, but he was truly infuriated!
So now it’s been 4 straight nights and I sure have no clue on how to tackle this one. I can’t remember my other two children having gone through these. I may add he was teething at the beginning but now his teeth broke in.
His routine yesterday looked like this:
W/u 8 am and breastfeed
9 am breakfast
Play time
1 pm nap
3:30 pm lunch
Play time
5 pm bottle 6 oz
Play time
6:30 dinner
7:30 bedtime routine
8 pm bedtime took him 30 min to settle si asleep by 8:30
Night wake up st 3:30 am
Just went down at 5:40 am
Please advice, I don’t want to turned this into something even bigger.
One more detail, I’ve been weaning him off the breast also because I have a trip coming up in August and I will have to leave him for 10 days. He seems to be transitioning well!
Thank you so much!
