Please can any experienced mammas lend some advice.
DS is about to turn 2 and was sent home from nursery for being sick on Tuesday. Hadn't been sick since Tuesday evening.
However, he has not been himself at all since. Still isn't eating much at all. First thing when he wakes up he is his happy self and eats breakfast but then needs to go down earlier for afternoon nap and refuses lunch.
After his nap he refuses to eat all day and is so tired we've put him down around 4.30pm. We've tried doubling his afternoon nap, which helped but yesterday we just let him sleep as long as he wanted and he was better post nap but lo and behold, he was up a lot in the night and we wondered if too much day sleep was affecting his recovery sleep over night.
Problem is when he wakes from his nap, he is like he was as a newborn, non stop crying, we have no idea what he wants even though he is good speech wise, refuses food, TV works for a short while, demands cuddles but doesn't want them, cries out for whichever parent isn't in the room, eventually come 4.30pm, he wants bed again and will nap for an hour and wake up. This goes on all evening and he's clearly not comfortable. The naps don't stop his tired tantrums.
Nothing works in terms of cheering him up, DH took him to the shops earlier, and he usually loves the car and being out but hysterically cried non stop both in car and at the shops.
It's day 3 now and we are at our wits end and just want our happy boy who loves food back.
Not only are we so worried but sleep deprived too and exhausted. We've both take days off work to help him but if he's not been physically sick for 3 days now, what's wrong?