My daughter was a great sleeper, she slept through three night from 10 weeks but everything has gone wrong the last 6 weeks. She moved into her big cot and slept great for the first week but then started walking up every hour or two screaming hysterically, the same kind of cries as when she falls over and bumps her head, loud and like she's in great pain. At the start we picked her up and she calmed quickly and fell asleep on my chest and could be transferred back into the cot but woke up again screaming relatively soon.
Her front teeth were coming through, she had her first cold and took a tumble from the changing table (just a shock, no injuries thank god) within 2 weeks, so we thought it was that and a sleep regression / separation anxiety, but 6 weeks later it's still happening. She was up screaming at 11.30pm, 12.30am, 1.15am, 2.30am and 6.15am last night, I'm exhausted!
We've tried not picking her up and rubbing her back and tummy and shushing her instead but she gets even more upset. She's not wet our hungry either. We changed the cot thinking it might be the mattress (swapped with the grandparents cot) but the same thing happens. Any advice on how to get her back into a decent sleep pattern? I'm going back to work next month and I won't be able to function of this keeps going.