My 16 week old daughter has started having rubbish nights, and I'm not sure why.
From about 3 weeks old she was already sleeping around 6 to 8 hours a night, and settling off to sleep very easy.
The most she would usually go is wake up and fuss a little, I could just pop dummy in and she'd be straight back off. Some nights I'd have to let her snooze in my arms a bit first, but rarely.
We take her up to bed and give her her last feed in bed, we keep her sat up for 30 mins with us as she has reflux. She is always awake when we put her in the cot, with a dummy she's off to sleep withing 5 to 20 mins.
For the last 3 or 4 days, we put her in her cot and she gets off to sleep as normal, then within 20 mins to an hour she wakes up fussing, as usual I will pop her dummy in, but now, she will cry and fuss then scream and scream. I have to take her out of the cot and there is NOTHING that will soothe her. last night she cried for an hour, until she was choking, and made herself sick, which scared her and made her worse. We finally gave up and decided we would have to take her out in the pram for a snooze, we got everything ready, taking turns while she screamed, just as we were about to put her in she gave us the biggest smile out of no where, and fell asleep! We put her in bed... then an hour later she woke up and repeated this. It was now about 2 or 3 in the morning and so I decided to give her a feed once she calmed. Put her to bed, and she slept until 7, and woke up as normal.
I don't know what it could be except for teething.... It makes me think it is because if she's upset and you try a dummy or bottle on her, she screams louder and refuses. Any other time she doesn't want her dummy anymore she will just stick her tongue out and it pops out and that's that.
It makes me feel terrible as I am not used to not being able to soothe her with anything.