12 months change in sleep and behaviour

[Crocodilehunter]

My DS will turn 1 on Saturday.
His sleep has never been brilliant but everything just seems to have gone extra pear shaped since mid last week!

He normally has a bath/gets ready for bed between 6:30-7:00 and then is breastfeed to sleep and put down in his cot about 8:00.
He usually wakes once or twice between 8:00-10:00 where we will go to him and settle him (if not he would work him self up more and more to a point where he is screaming) and he would go back to sleep in about 5 mins not ideal but it worked for us!

If anyone's wondering HV told us to try CC and other variants of but DS has been unwell with his chest since mid July and been prescribed various medication incl simple linctus, piriton, inhalers eat but nothing seems to have worked and due to him having a tendency to vomit easily with the crap being on his chest plus getting easily worked up we have never found the right time to start something as heavy going as this method of sleep training.

Eek sorry posted to soon.

Anyway...
He is getting to a stage where nothing we do seems to work, he's v attached at the mo, wanting to breastfeed during the day when we don't normally do this.
He'll bypass any crying stage and just scream the place down if we don't do things just how he wants right away.
He is also gotten harder to settle in the evening, waking more frequently.
He woke frequently anyway but ATM it's every 10-15 mins.
We're at a bit of a loss.
Could this be behaviour that we need to look at starting to control or is it normal that a child of around 12 months goes through this kind of phase?

Does anyone have any suggestions of what we can maybe try for the next step?

I'm not sure what to suggest other than my DD did exactly the same thing for about 6 weeks when she turned one, combined with her having a mega clingy phase. It stopped as quickly as it started and she started talking so I figured it was developmental and she also got a couple of teeth.

Lots of cuddles, plenty of wine and deep breaths - this too shall pass xx

I'd look at gradual retreat for bedtime. It is more gentle than CC but will give you your life back (eventually!)

He may have some molars coming through, and it can be very painful for these littlies. Also, if all the medication etc that you've been given isn't helping him, then maybe the GP needs to refer him to a consultant.

DS has been improving his gross motor skills practicing lone standing and his language is coming on a lot recently so his development could well be a contributing factor, he's also biting anything and everything so teething could also be causing the upset (he's been on teething medication since the weekend).

Will look in to gradual retreat, have said to DP, we need to talk through our options re sleep training because not only is it hard on us, it's no good for DS the way things are going. I'm back at work so we're co sleeping from 1-2am to make it easier on me which again isn't ideal for either of us!

We're forever seeing the GP for one thing or another and we're due to see them again for an update! He's at nursery, so he'll be picking up one bug after another there too.

It's horrible, I had asthma as a child and DP has also had severe asthma since being a baby so I knew that it probably wouldn't be all rosy for him which is why I continued breastfeeding, in the hope it'd give his immune system a boost. I just have to hope it has had a positive effect on him.