21mths DD nightwaking /cryings

[minkybetty]

help my dd who used to sleep from 7pm - 7am has started waking in the night anywhere between 1.30am - 4.00am crying and screaming. we thought it could be teething but has now gone on (on and off) for about 1 month. Sometimes she sleeps sometimes she doesn't. She is inconsolable and so I have broken all the rules by bringing her into bed with me, though even then she doesn't always settle quickly but if I try putting her back in her cot she screams until she's almost sick. We have tried leaving her but then she becomes too distressed. Just don't know what to do - she is also eating really erratically at the moment and says no to just about everything though she never asks for food in the night... help very tiring particularly on the days I have to go to work

Maviscrewit, I eventually got that shower (it hasn't actually taken me 2 days but I got busy at work so have been online!!!) hope your girls are better. How was last night? My DD has started sleeping again (don't know why or if it will last) and we haven't done anything different so what's that all about.. She coughed and moaned alot but never fully woke up. Wonder if DH sleeping in with her just made her confident that someone was nearby .... anyway, not being smug as we have other tantrum issues to deal with. Seems like one thing get solved only to make way for something else...

Hello square one! Nice to see you again.

Dd will not go to sleep in her own bed. I can't believe I'm back here again.

Can I join too - DS nearly 15 months & similar. Wakes in the night and yells. Have tried leaving him but have to think of the neighbours as well (terraced house). Quietens when removed to big bed and even if he seems asleep, yells again as soon as he's returned to his cot. Both at work so co-sleeping means at least we get some sleep, as well as poked and head-butted occasionally, not to mention the hair pulling. He does have a bit of a cough at the moment, and had a sick bug last weekend, but I think it pre-dates both.

I think co-sleeping or sleeping in the same room is the answer until they are confident again of feeling safe. This seems to have worked for DD who seems to now gone back to sleeping through. I think her teething and cold must have been the problem and she was waking up uncomfortable and in pain and then getting frightened in the middle of the night

Can I ask everyone how they comfort their dcs in the middle of the night if they are really upset and ALREADY in with them?

Dd is inconsolable in the middle of the night, and I have a feeling bringing her downstairs and putting on Mr Tumble isn't helping.

How else can I calm her???

we had to have the light on - we then made it dimmer and dimmer.
we also did lots of patting and stroking and put on a lullaby cd that we have used since she is 5 weeks old - sometimes I will sing to her .

i have a 16mth old who slept great the first year now he wakes at 12.30am every night..like others i put him in bed with us but he tosses and turns for 2-3 hrs then eventually falls asleep not waking until 8am but i have to be up at 7.30am for the school run...he sleeps with a dummy and as to have one in his hand as well to fall asleep so i wonder if this is the problem. i wish i could find the problem he eats well and is very active thro the day so no rest for me there either. His molars have come thro now top and bottom and as two cuming thro at the front sides so it may be teething......yes...no?

Hi everyone

please can I join you? DS (17 months) has always been a pretty appalling sleeper. We did have a brief 2 week interlude at around 12 months of sleeping through, thought we'd cracked it (though had done nothing differently) but sadly the sttn turned out to be a phase.

If he wakes twice that's a good night. Currently he wakes SCREAMING anything from 1 to 5 times a night. He does have about 5 teeth coming through, so could be that but the others never caused this much trouble. Thing is he seems so ANGRY to be awake....he obviously wants to sleep, but just can't switch off. Sometimes milk will placate him, other times he is inconsolable.

Trouble is we have just moved to Malaysia for my husband's work so the poor mite (that's my son, not my husband ) has had several huge changes to cope with. Sigh...........i'm sure it will get better in time...won't it?! Please?!

can i join? my 20mo dd also wakes at least once a night. she starts off in her cot but will wake at varying times. as i am working full-time and a single parent, i bring her into bed with me and she sleeps fine. she stirs and whinges and moans but settles ok. if i were to put her back into her cot, we would have a different scenario as i'm sure we'd have many wakeful hours. when will we get a 7 hour night sleep????