10 month old suddenly waking in the night

[EmmaG1]

My ten month old daughter has recently started waking up anywhere up to 10 times in the night. Up until then, she had been sleeping through from about 8.30pm to 8am but, following a bout of diarrheoa and possible teething (although no teeth through), she has suddenly become a very bad sleeper.

Her daytime routine is exactly the same and when we put her down at night (or for daytime naps) she has no problem getting to sleep by herself. However, when she wakes in the night, she screams full pelt, even if you pick her up/sing to her/soothe her etc and only stops if you feed her. She also seems to sleep through if I finally give in and bring her in with us.

I know most people will recommend crying it out but we live in a terraced house and don't want to disturb our neighbours. Also, if left to cry it out in the daytime, she doesn't stop and gets herself so wound up, she's dripping in sweat and physically shaking when we finally go in to her.

She is on hungrier baby milk plus we give her goodnight milk before he goes to bed.

Dos anyone have any advice?

I wonder if this has to do with seperation anxiety? Is your daughter close to walking? Babies often start to realise that they can move away from you and you from them at around this age. Occasionally this can lead to increased night waking. How you deal with it really depends on what you feel comfortable with. Some people would recommend letting her cry it out. Personally, I think if you have ruled out all other causes of night waking, I would go to her bed and reassure her that you're there. After all, if the cause of her crying is seperation anxiety, leaving her to cry wil do nothing to reassure her.

You obviously don't want to be doing this forever. There's a great book called 'The no-cry sleep solution' by Elizabeth Pantley, if you're looking for an alternative to the 'crying it out method'.

I wonder if this has to do with seperation anxiety? Is your daughter close to walking? Babies often start to realise that they can move away from you and you from them at around this age. Occasionally this can lead to increased night waking. How you deal with it really depends on what you feel comfortable with. Some people would recommend letting her cry it out. Personally, I think if you have ruled out all other causes of night waking, I would go to her bed and reassure her that you're there. After all, if the cause of her crying is seperation anxiety, leaving her to cry wil do nothing to reassure her.

You obviously don't want to be doing this forever. There's a great book called 'The no-cry sleep solution' by Elizabeth Pantley, if you're looking for an alternative to the 'crying it out method'.

I think it may well be separation anxiety, I've noticed she follows me around a lot more in the day recently too. She's not close to walking but has just started crawling so is a lot more active. I think we're going to stop giving her any bottles in the night as I don't think she's even hungry, it's just comforting for her so I'll try just giving water.

I just can't see any solution to it and as I go back to work soon, I realy want to try and get her nights more settled -she's perfect in the day so I don't understand it!