Looking for tips or advice please
DS is 17m. For about the last week he has been waking from 10.30 and not sleeping again until 2/3 and waking frequently between then and 7. He is crying hysterically and writhing around. Initially we thought it was an ear infection and took him to the GP but nothing could be identified. I’ve given him Calpol even nurofen to no avail. We thought he was perhaps getting too much daytime sleep so we transitioned him to one nap 12.15-2.30 and bed at 7.30. He has acquired a lot of language and so I thought he might be a bit frazzled by this but the way he is crying looks like he is in pain.
DS is quite a handful, frustrated by his lack of communicative ability he can be very whingey and needs lots of entertaining and the only thing that was holding my mental health together was the fact that he was mostly a good sleeper so I got a break from the crying at whinging at night. I feel like I am losing my mind listening to it 24 hours a day. I also now get to bed for 2-3 hours and have to get up for work. I can’t continue doing 21 hour days it’s impossible.
All advice welcome