Any ideas? 10 month old ds waking in pain.

[Roarasaurus]

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this is in the wrong bit!

I'm looking for some pointers regarding 10 month old ds.

Always been a rubbish sleeper, never slept for more than a couple of hours through the night. Have been considering sleep training lately, but feel I can't until this issue is sorted.

Bf from birth and co-sleeps with just me.

I usually feed to sleep though occasionally he will just go to sleep without it. I know he can link sleep cycles, so it's not that.

Recently he's been waking up even more frequently and seems to be uncomfortable when he does. I'm thinking maybe it's stomach trouble, as he seems to want to lie on his front with legs underneath. The only thing that seems to help him is Calpol and we get a few blessed hours sleep.

Teething has stopped for now, so isn't that.

Just wondering what to do now? Should I take him to the GP?
He eats well in the day, so wondering if it's a food intolerance that's causing the pain/gas?

Thanks for any ideas you can give me.

[Superscientist]

My daughter struggled with wheat at around that age. She was fine unless she had too much pasta or any cous cous. it gave her really painful trapped wind.
She does have food allergies too but the wheat/gluten was different

Unfortunately with delayed food allergies and intolerance there is no quick route to identifying the cause and the best thing to do is to start a food diary and see if there is any correlations. It can be a few days between eating a food and seeing symptoms which is an additional complication

[CadyEastman]

We had similar with DS but it turned out the be Tongue Tie.

Having said that though, there might not actually be a thing wrong. It could be the 9 month sleep regression, which can be a killer.