Hi everyone,
I have a 19 week old little boy and since reading BW at 10 weeks has got really good at sleeping (pat shush saved my life!) and can now sleep independently nearly all of the time, I just give him a kiss and a cuddle and he lays and falls asleep in his cot quite happily.
The last 5 nights he has started waking after 45 minutes of going to bed at night and really crying. He doesn't start to stir and then cry it is instant crying. He cries so much it sounds like he can hardly catch his breath. The first night I waited a minute and he did go back to sleep but since then he hasn't, so I've gone in to settle him again. I am sort of morphing from the pat/shush to pu/pd as suddenly the p/s seemed not to work so much, but I have tried to sooth him by saying long slow shushes and if that doesn't work I pick him up until he is calm and then put him down. A couple of nights I have had to pu/pd two or three times before he has gone back to sleep.
Does anyone know of any reason why he would suddenly start waking up? At what age might they start to think if I give a cry my mum might come and get me!?! I wouldn't of thought it was this young, although we were watching a film when he woke up last night so my husband said 'why don't we bring him down and he can fall asleep in our arms whilst we carry on watching' I was like 'NOOOO, that what he wants' but then felt bad for thinking such thoughts of our gorgeous little boy.
Any thoughts/advice is much appreciated
Sal
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