He has never been a good sleeper (major understatement alert) but this is plumbing new depths of sleep-related torture. Tired and ready for bed at 7pm, goes down OK. Fine, you think. But come 10pm he is up again and will NOT go back in the blasted cot. He settles down fine if I cuddle him or BF him, but as soon as I put him gently down in the cot the screaming begins. And it can last HOURS!
Last night I was up with him from 10pm until 1.30am. I tried patting him, holding his hand, and finally just sitting quietly by the cot. He even managed to lie himself down and settle back to sleep 3 times (impressive!). But the second I moved away from the cot, or even just shifted slightly in my chair, BING! Both eyes open, wide awake and SCREAMING. Once I managed to get out of the room for nearly two whole minutes, so he must have been a bit slow on the uptake, but he caught up eventually and lo, the screaming started again. Eventually I think he collapsed out of sheer exhaustion at 1.30, but he was up again by 4am so I gave up and brought him into bed with me, where he wriggled and jiggled but basically slept fine until 7am.
He may be teething, but has had Calpol, and this has been going on weeks. He is picking up lots of new words at the moment so I guess that may have something to do with it. But God help me, I work full time and am so tired I can't see straight. Please, somebody, have some answers for me!
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Aaaarrrgghhh! What is going on with my 16mo?!
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JacqueslePeacock · 10/01/2013 11:52
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