DS, 12 months, has had The Cough that is going round on and off for about three months. He's generally a good sleeper but at some point in the night he will wake himself up coughing. It's early tonight, it was 11.15 rather than 1 something or 3 something.
Nothing helps. If he's picked up to try and alleviate the cough he just gets agitated because he doesn't like being held when he's trying to sleep. If he's left it can go on for over an hour with him not really awake but certainly not asleep.
I've just left him back in the cot for the third time trying to go back to sleep. Holding him was annoying him, hand on back was annoying him and now he's making trying to sleep noises but then every 30 seconds the bastard cough again.
I know cough it out has worked because there have been times when it's been later in the night and I've not fully woken up that I've heard him and seen the time a couple of times and he's gone back to sleep but it's taken over an hour and it just seems a bit shit to leave him that long
This is just a rant really. One day he'll finally not have it and sleep through again. But I feel somewhat helpless only being able to listen to him.
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DappledThings · 21/02/2017 00:12
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