Help! At a loss with DD

[PoorDD1]

She's 18 months old, woke up 2 hours after bedtime and has been screaming for 2 hours now. She's had nurofen and calpol, it's done nothing. She occasionally sleeps for a few minutes then startles awake, stands up in her cot and cries. Or sometimes she'll absolutely scream and won't let us hold or touch her.

She barely ever cries, let alone scream, so I know something must really bother her but I don't know what :(

She keeps wriggling non stop and ends up hitting her head on the cot, it feels like she is doing it on purpose sometimes.

She has pulled at her ear perhaps twice in the 2 hours so not convinced it means anything but can they have ear pain with no other symptoms? She doesn't even have a cold at the moment (for once!)

Is she walking? Sounds like the walking or verbal sleep regression

Back teeth? Ear pain and pulling can be referred teething pain. But maybe get her checked over tomorrow as earache is horrible and often worse at night. Poor wee lamb

@Binfluencer she started walking 2 weeks ago. Would the walking regression be before they master the skill?

@SNWannabe I did think about molars but it seems a bit early for them. All her teeth so far have appeared exactly when it says on the NHS website and molars are meant to be between 20 and 30 months. But it's still possible I guess.

She conked out around 1am and slept til morning and is perfectly happy now so I'm none the wiser! Although she does have a very runny nose again, so perhaps she is coming down with something .

Yes it would normally. But could be the verbal regression, that was brutal for both of mine around 18 months, their brains won't let them rest!

Don’t know anything about the regressions, but my little guy was like this with his teeth. Always went for his ear.

Could very well be teeth, I always found the teething gels more effective than calpol.

Has she got red cheeks, more dribbling, red gums? Have a feel around her gums and see if you can feel a tooth starting to poke through.

You can also offer something cold to soothe them, DD would eat frozen peas and sweetcorn straight from the freezer or we'd dampen a clean flannel and freeze that so she could chew on it.