Teething frequently waking baby = No sleep!

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I have two children, my first born son who is 4 in September and my daughter who will be 1 in 2 weeks! I do compare them a lot which I am sure is only natural, both babies have been so different in many ways.

My daughter is currently going through teething and it is so different to when my son was teething. I just wanted to make sure this is normal, but I am also struggling with 0 sleep and still needing to work full time so I am just so exhausted.

She is waking up so frequently, sometimes every 1-2 hours, it will be early hours and sometimes takes me a very long time to get her back to sleep. I was up at 3am this morning with her and she didn’t go back to sleep until 5am and then I had to stay up anyway to get myself ready for work and my son ready for school.
I gave her calpol this evening at 7:30 and she was down by 8 but she has woke up twice since crying. She is crying now and I am just not sure if leaving her is the best thing at this point or if she does need comforting. she doesn’t contact nap, she doesn’t ever settle on me so I can’t even have her in bed with me, if I get her up for a cuddle she will then be wide awake.

Any ideas/ suggestions would be a huge help. Thank you! X

Try pushing bedtime back a bit as well? If she's having split nights, she might need less sleep. Or be ready to go to one nap.

I also would give ibuprofen if more than four hours since Calpol is LO seems distressed, hot, drooling etc.

Is it teething that’s making her wake or is this behaviour more regular?

Sympathy from me though, getting up at 3am to look after a baby and going to work on no further sleep isn’t fun

This is normal unfortunately. At one point, one of mine was waking every 30 minutes allll night long. The things that helped: regular calpol at maximum dose throughout the night, cosleeping, and share the load. Do you have a partner? Where are they in this? Even if you’re breastfeeding, a partner can take over the settling for half the night while you catch up on sleep or can get up with them in the morning so you can get an extra hour before you need to be up. And definitely don’t just leave her! You need to get in there before she gets distressed and fully awake. Teething is awful and she needs comfort and ideally to be close to you throughout the night.

Regular, alternating paracetamol and ibuprofen during the night. Each can be given 4 hourly. So you will need to write down / record each time, dose and type of medication. One dose of calpol at bedtime is not sufficient. Prop the head of the cot up to relieve pressure on her ears.
If she is waking up due to pain, give adequate pain relief. It is temporary.

Definitely give Calpol / nurofen alternately every 4 hours. Whats her usual schedule? Sounds like she needs less day sleep / later bedtime. You want them super tired at bedtime.

In your boat right now and offering much sympathy! Similarly to you, we barely noticed my boy’s teething, took it like an absolute hero and very very rarely disturbed his sleep. My girl on the other hand… she’ll be one on Sunday and bless her the poor thing had an influx of 5 teeth through within a couple of weeks (she’s now got 7!). She’s awake regularly from around 10/11pm, awake for hours, crying, restless. I feel so bad for her, we’re just doing the calpol and moving her into bed with one of us as my partner and I alternate nights so I’m only actually doing 50% of the nights with her but even with that I’m shattered. I hope you come through the other side soon!