Hi, I wonder whether anyone has been through something similar?
DD has always hated napping but has slept well at night usually 7pm -6am. But for the past few weeks she has been waking some nights and staying awake for a couple of hours at a time. Obviously this is leaving everyone exhausted. I'd really like to get to the bottom of it.
She doesn't seem to be in any pain or distress, or to want anything in particular, though if we don't go to her she starts to cry. If we stay with her/bring her to our bed she becomes more awake and excited. So we are having to go in and out every time she starts crying - usually she goes quiet and then after anything up to 30 mins, when we are just getting back to sleep, she starts again!
It has roughly coincided with me letting her have a dummy for sleep times, as I realised this helped when her reflux was bad, but I don't think she's waking for the dummy as she still won't go back to sleep if she has it.
She's not hungry/thirsty - she will sometimes take a feed but that won't send her back to sleep.
She hasn't changed her nap pattern and there doesn't seem to be any connection between how much she slept in the day and whether she wakes at night.
I guess she could be teething, but as I said she doesn't seem to be in pain.
She's just learning to walk and I've heard developmental stuff can affect sleep but this is just silly! And has been going on for weeks.
Any suggestions? What can we do?!