Ds is 21 months and generally has been a great sleeper. He was doing 7 til 7 from about 4 months with just the odd bad night here and there. The last month however has been awful! He goes down ok at bedtime without fuss but then wakes any time between 10 and 2 and is totally hysterical. He literally sounds like someone is trying to kill him! I thought it might be night terrors but he seems to know what's going on. If DH goes in he will scream even more for mummy and it will then take me anywhere up to 3 hours to get him to go back to sleep. He's not clingy during the day with me and had never been much of a mummy's boy.
He doesn't seem to want a drink or a nappy change and I'm pretty sure it's not teeth or illness. I'm struggling to get more than 3 or 4 hours sleep at the mo and work in a very emotionally demanding role so finding it very hard to function at work. We did try and leave him to cry the other night but after a half hour or him being hysterical I broke!
Interestingly we had a family do yesterday and he didn't have a daytime nap as we were busy. He actually slept through last night for the first time in weeks. Should I be considering dropping his daytime nap? He does still seem to want them though and will happily take himself upstairs after lunch when I ask him if he wants a nap.
Could this be a sleep regression or just a developmental leap? Any advice gratefully sought!!!
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maxiflump1 · 05/12/2016 23:14
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