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10 month old suddenly not sleeping

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WolfInSlutsClothing · 03/09/2019 14:31

DS used to be a great sleeper, he's sleeping through the night since he was 6 weeks old. The last 2 weeks or so however he's been waking screaming every night 1-3 times and only having two, half hour naps during the day.

Yesterday it's just suddenly got worse. He had his 2 bad naps as usual but it took a long time to settle him. Last night DP put him to bed at 7.30 and got him to sleep at 7.50. by 9.30 he had already woken 4 times. It took me until 11 to settle him back down. He then slept until 2am and woke up at 3, 3.30, 4, 5, 5.50, and then got up at 7.

He won't nap today, I got him down for 20 minutes. He's abseloutley exhausted. He's spent all day yesterday and today winging and crying non stop. I really don't know what to do, I'm sitting here ATM crying because I'm just so mentally and physically drained. He's not sick, iv checked his temperature and he's eating and drinking as normal.

I really don't know what to do. I feel like walkng out and not coming back, iv nobody here to help until DP gets home at 6pm and it's the same every day. Iv felt like I'm not coping for months but today really is just rock bottom. Haven't even gotten a chance to so much as eat something today. I thought maybe it was a sleep regression but now I'm not sure because it's just gotten so bad.

I don't even know what exactly I'm asking here other than has anybody got any advice on what to do? I can't even bring him out in the buggy because it's raining outside and hasn't let up all day.

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Pepperstripe · 03/09/2019 14:36

Can you take him for a drive? That usually gets them to sleep easily.

Pepperstripe · 03/09/2019 14:37

I did read something about night terrors at a certain age...???

WolfInSlutsClothing · 03/09/2019 14:39

Pepperstripe

I don't drive, he's started to hate the car aswell the past month or so he just cried the whole time. He's just so fussy even when he's playing with his toys, like right now, he keeps getting irritated and crying.

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MamaFlintstone · 03/09/2019 15:10

Could he be teething? I found nurofen worked well when DD was bothered by teeth at night at that age.

Pinkiii · 03/09/2019 15:21

Think I made a post about this around the same time my DD was 10 months.

Up until then she was a great sleeper, never needed rocking, we’d put her down and she’d be off then all of a sudden she was as you described, we couldn’t make the smallest sound or she would wake up crying to make if worse she was up at 3:30-4am for rest of the day!

I don’t know if it was teething or sleep regression! She was a bit better when her teeth came out but after around 5-6 weeks (sorry long time) she was suddenly back to being a great sleeper and now sleeps from 7-7 without waking up generally.

Hope its the same for you! Smile

WolfInSlutsClothing · 03/09/2019 15:21

MamaFlintstone

He's got 6 teeth already and doesn't appear to be cutting any more right now. He was never this bad getting them either, he would wake up an hour earlier in the mornings and be a bit harder to settle but that's it really.

It's stopped raining now so I'm going to take him out for a while. Hopefully he sleeps a little. Other than that I'm at a loss of what to do with him. I seriously can't cope with the crying anymore, I can feel the frustration building in my self by the minute.

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Pinkiii · 03/09/2019 15:23

Just seen your second post, sounds like teething, DD was just non stop whining when she was awake and nothing would make her happy.

Nurofen, teething granules and liquid anbesol helped us a bit!

WolfInSlutsClothing · 03/09/2019 15:23

Pinkiii

Oh I really hope it doesn't last that long. Thank you though, hopefully it is just a sleep regression. Who knew they could be this bad..

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