Hi,
My DS is almost one year and has never been the best sleeper, but at around ten months we were making real head way; he was sleeping through most nights 7pm to 6am. The last few weeks he has been waking at night and not being able to settle himself back to sleep (only very occasionally will I hear him stir and then nod off again).
He only wakes once a night but when he does he will be awake for 2 hours and really requires me to be in the room with him for most of that otherwise he starts to get distressed and I have never let him cry it out - don't think I could - and am not happy to start now. He usually wakes at around 3/4am but there have been nights when it has been earlier (pre midnight), and when he wakes I usually give him a good 10 to 20 minutes (he isn't crying just babbling away in his cot) before I go in, in the hope (ha ha!!) that he'll be able to settle himself back down. Settling him back to sleep involves cuddles on my lap, shushing, back rubbing, try the same with him lying in his cot and a bottle (we dropped night feeds a couple of months ago so I was unhappy about reintroducing a night bottle but it seems to help him settle down again) and eventually him lying in his cot on his side with my hand on his back, which I remove just as he's finally nodding off.
I don't think he's waking out of being too hot/cold or hungry and although he has been teething on and off, he isn't at the moment and I'm really worried that for whatever reason his body has got into a rhythm of waking like this and I don't know how to break the cycle. He naps once (2.5-3 hrs morning nap at 9:30) and occasionally twice (45 minute second nap in the afternoon) and when he does wake at night for 2 hrs he then sleeps until 8 ish. I have been trying to drop the second nap because his having it means doesn't go down to sleep until 8/8:30 pm.
This is really killing me and I would be so grateful to hear any advice from others who have experienced something like this and managed to come out the other side :) Thank you
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11.5 month baby suddenly waking at night for two hours - killing me! Please help!
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No1MummytoOtto · 06/09/2013 03:20
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