I feel a bit daft as I have 6dc and had a few sleep issues due to 1 dc have sn but I'm so so tired and feel like I have no clue anymore. My youngest is 17 months old.
Up until recently he was a good sleeper and only woke during the night from being 6 months if teething or unwell. He was diagnosed with having toddler diarrhea 3 weeks ago after having it recurrently for 3 weeks he also had croup for the second time. Obviously he felt rubbish and there was quite a few nights where I sat up with him trying to comfort him through it all.
Currently he is having a spell of having normal nappies and the croup has all but gone with just a slight cough now and again but I'm having major problems getting him to sleep at night.
His naps vary day to day and I've put this down to his lack of sleeping at night. He will go up at bedtime happily but he wakes anytime between 11pm and 3am then is either awake until after 6am when I have to be up with my other dcs or he will fall asleep as long as he is lying next to me in my bed or sometimes him led on sofa and me sat next to him. I can't sleep with him my bed as he wriggles and kicks to much I have tried but I end up in awkward positions and end up in really bad pain in my back the next day. When ever I try to move him back to his cot he wakes up no matter how long I leave him and will scream until I put him in bed with me or I take him downstairs so he doesn't wake the others up. When he wakes up there never seems to be a reason his nappies are clean and dry he refuses a bottle and dummy and just seems to throw tantrums until he is sure he is with me and I'm not going anywhere he will sometimes then take a bottle or just fall asleep. If I then try and move him back to his cot he wakes up and screams and hits out again.
I've tried lying him back down and rubbing his back but he just gets so mad and screams louder and I have tried leaving him for up to 5 minutes and going back into him but he just doesn't work and he ends up walking the others up.
I really don't know what to do and would be grateful for any advice anyone may have.
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17 months and suddenly won't sleep
Lostmyemailaddress · 28/10/2016 01:26
No advice I'm afraid but handholding! Going through the exact same with my dd who is 15 months! She goes to bed fine at 7.30 but wakes numerous times from 11pm until I get fed up of her whinging and bring dd to bed with me in case she wakes the other kids. It's that bad that dp now sleeps downstairs so she can come in with me but even then she is awake for hours switching between trying to play and chatter to screaming until she eventually settles with a bottle around 4am and like you we have to be up with the others for school/work etc... soooo bloody tired. Feel your pain op! 
Hoping someone comes along soon with some advice in the meantime I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee this morning 
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Thank you I've just got back from school and a shop run and feel like I could just drop ds4 (the zombie maker) is wide awake and very grumpy was hoping he would fall asleep in the buggy but no such luck. He gets so bad tempered ands it's obvious he's tired but he just won't go to sleep. I don't even know how many coffees I've had I lost count at half 5 this morning .
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