15 month old disturbed sleep - allergies or something else?

[FirstTimeMamaNZ]

Long time lurker, first time poster! Advice please - sorry for long post!

My daughter will be 15 months old next week. BF and Co-sleep part of the night, usually from midnight but the last couple of months she is waking up at 11pm on the dot almost. She always sleeps really well in her cot in the first part of the night. Always has but as she gets older her sleep after this first wake is often very disturbed.
Main points:
-bf back to sleep
-when Co-cleeping wants to suckle all night but isn't feeding a lot of time
-Uses dummy/pacifier
-takes teddy to bed but won't use to comfort during night

• last couple of weeks she will onlysettle if I'm propped up and she's sleeping across me, head on chest with legs tucked down by my armpit

-molars are coming in -egg allergy and poss dairy allergy (bloods came back negative to allergy today so maybe just intolerance!) -she often snores but not always.

The main thing I'm noticing is after the 11pm wake up, she seems so unsettled or uncomfortable. Asleep but moaning, squirming, wants cuddle, doesn't want cuddle. This goes on till about 3am then she settles. Not fully awake so not split night.

Could this be just teeth? Allergy issue? She often scratches her mild eczema spots during night, elbow, knee and neck creases. Could the eczema cause this restlessness? Some nights she will sleep till 3am in cot but that is very rare.

I love having her in with me but the last couple of months have been really tough also working full time so I'm just wondering if there's something else I need to be investigating or if this is just part of the developmental phase she is in. The suckling and twiddling my nipples some nights is so overstimulating I feel like crying.

Schedule is loosely:

Wake 6.15am (same wake time everyday naps are variable)
Nap1 9-10.30am
Nap2 2-3pm
Bed between 7-8pm depending on day. Usually down by 7.30pm.
Don't let her do more that 2.5 hours of naps during day.

Some days she has had one nap but she really struggles to stay awake past 10am.

Thanks for reading!

My daughter wanting to sleep now me like that...her favourite position is using my cheek as a pillow ... is usually an indicator that her reflux is playing up.

She had reflux from birth which settled down around 9-10 months but it started to return around 12 months and by 15 months it was worse than ever. It has gone in and out of being controlled by medication ever since. We had a bad relapse last summer aged 3 and she went back to only sleeping in my arms or on my face with me relatively sat upright.

She also has a lot of food allergies hers are the delayed variety too which often are also referred to as intolerances. She's as sensitive as if she had an allergy - she fails the milk ladder with a piece of biscuit the size of a grain of rice but her symptoms are all gastric. At that age you can get false negatives in blood and skin prick tests so if you have confirmed "true" allergy symptoms such as hives and swellings they would trump the negative test results.

You said molars are coming through. Are you giving her calpol? I would tend to give at bedtime and then at a wake up during the night if teething and it seemed needed.

Is there something big going on developmentally? Both mine started walking at 15 months, so there was a lot of brain development going on and that just causes sleep to go a bit haywire.

Has she had her jabs in the past month or so? They really affected my youngest.

Hi! Just thought Id message to see how you got on @FirstTimeMamaNZ ? We are experiencing similar situation with my youngest who is 15 months. We never had this with my first, he wasnt the best sleeper either but my gosh its much worse with my little one.