Any thoughts on why DD may have started screaming at night?

[2cats]

DD is nearly one and has never been a great sleeper but used to settle well. She is screaming as I type and has been for nearly and hour. She is an ok temp, has had calpol, teething gel, water, cuddles, been left but won't settle.

I don't think she's unwell but is teething. The last few nights she has started crying about 4 am and not stopping until 6am. If I cuddle her she's fine but will not settle alone until she's sobbing and exhausted.

Any thoughts? I'm out of ideas

Thanks bumpaside am repeating your words as I type!
Meant to say yesterday how fantasticaly (?sp) well your DD is doing, it must be so exciting for you! I hope you are again enjoying wine and have remembered the art of conversation

We had a much better night as she slept til just gone 5 so am feeling a little more positive.

LeninGrad- sounds like we're having a similar experience, we were in bed by 9 last night and plan to do the same tonight! Have tried the co sleeping thing but just can't do it and don't really have enough milk left to feed at night. Lets hope we're both having some lovely undisturbed sleep very soon x

Well it's 5.04 and she's been going since before 4 am, tried all the usual bit nothing is working!

Leningrad hope ur night got better? We have jabs on the horizon as well so happy days!

Bumpaside hope ur enjoying ur wine and uninterrupted sleep... i know my turn will come!

Well dd slept like a dream despite having had her MMR yesterday. Can it last?! I don't dare to hope !

LeninGrad- am glad your night was better! Being woken up two or three times is so much better than ten!

Bumpaside I came up with a theory at 5am... I think for every rubbish sleepless hour we're banking a good sleep hour some where so guess you are getting yours now! There's no reason it shouldn't last
I did want to give you a face last night but was on my mobile and couldn't figure out how to!

LeninGrad it my thoeory is right you should be in for some lovely sleeps soon as well

Hi there,

We had the same problem with our DD a few weeks ago. She had slept through the night since 5 weeks old so it became a real shock that she wouldn't go down at night. One night it took me from 10pm until 4am to settle her and even then she came into our room in the end.

I was at my wits end as we both work full-time and it was making me ill. My MIL who is a nurse told me in the end to just leave her. She said that what might have started out as there actually being something wrong (in pain, scared etc) had become a habit because she knew that I would keep going in.

So that night, I took her advice. It felt awful but after 30 minutes (the longest 30 minutes of my life) she went to sleep and slept through the night. The next night it took 15 minutes and the night after that 5 minutes. She's slept through the night since and has started going to bed happy (in fact pointing to her bed after bottle and story). She cuddles her dolly and drifts off to sleep.

It was awful for that week or so because there seemed to be no reason for it, but we're back to normal again now.

As DD is our first baby, I'm sure there'll be a lot more 'issues' to get through yet!

HTH

Thanks Dawn that does help! had a better one last night as only up about twenty mins and I'm pretty sure she had a bit of a temp so there is definately something physical going on with her some where.

Hope your good nights continue

2cats i remember all too well the torment of a non sleeper. My ds has only really just slept through night consistently but at your little ones age what really helped was removing his sleeping bag, think he was throwing legs about in night (practicing walking i guess??) and getting upset at being confined. Put him in extra layer and straight in cot, no covers (hated doing it as it felt so uncaring) but he slept alot better.