For the last month my 16 month old DS has been waking in the night and has been talking and rocking in his cot for hours. Last night was 3 hrs between 1am and 4am!!!! He isn't distressed he just rocks and talks to himself.
I have tried the following:
Calpol to rule out teething, (it makes no difference)
Altering the temp of his room.
Feeding him more.
Have even changed his mattress to make sure he is comfortable.
Tried various PJs/sleep suits
Going to him and trying to settle, this just makes him even more excited.
Ignoring him, he just keeps talking and rocking.
Making sure he has lots of comforters.
Nothing works!
Have any of you been through this? How did you cope? How did you make it better? Please tell me that it does get better.
Please, please, please help me. I can't cope anymore!!! Its so much worse than having a newborn as at least you can settle a newborn. I can't even settle him as he just gets even more excited.
We are living with my mum at the moment and she has told me that we will have to move out soon because she is getting no sleep too. I am really struggling with going to work and with getting on with things.
DS is really moody and grumpy during the day and he is wanting to sleep for ages during the day but I am only letting him sleep for a maximum of 2hrs during the day.
Please help!