Night waking at 11 months

[elw1505]

Hi

Our 11 month old son usually sleeps until between 5.30 and 6.30, has some milk and then will sometimes sleep for another hour. He has always been happy to be put down in the day while awake in his cot and would usually settle quite quickly.

Since being in hospital last week with a chest, throat and ear viral infection, he has become very clingy and now will only go to sleep by being cuddled and gets hysterical if I try to put him in his cot in the day for a nap. Furthermore, he now wakes in the night (about 1.30 - 2am )and will not be settled until we have him in bed with us. Although we tolerated this while he was poorly, he is now better but is carrying on with this pattern. His top teeth have just come through, which may have disturbed him too but surely this should have settled now !

We have tried trying to tuck him back into his cot and leave him to cry, but he just won't settle unless we are stroking his head. He just keeps crying and crying and standing up no matter how long we leave him.

It is making us both so tired and my boyfriend has resorted to sleeping on the sofa to try and get some sleep before work.

Any suggestions ?

Hey

I'm so glad I wasnt the only one to have suffered like you. My daughter was in hospital at 10mths with Viral Meningitis, and up until this point she was an excellant sleeper. As soon as we got her home she was constantly clingy and in our bed and to a point still is now at 2 and half. I even went out and brought her a nice bed and done her room up to try and encourage her to stay there, we are lucky as 4 nights out of 7 she'll stay in her bed but still wakes throught the night for MILK I found the best thing to settle her in was to read a story with her for half an hour and then she'd be sleepy and stay put. Now its just breaking the habbit of the milk....
Hopefully its just a thase he's going through with you to see how hard he can push you and as awful as it sounds i would leave him to cry and settle on his own, maybe try him in a bed now too? You can put gards up to stop him falling out. Mine was in her bed by 11 months as i think it comes to a point where there wake themselves up on the cot too.
Sorry to drag on,hope i helped in some way