My dd, 16 weeks, had the worst night ever last night. She has always been a good sleeper, however has started to wake every half hour or so from 4am onwards for her dummy. I have accepted that this is just something that she needs right now and will keep replacing it until she is old enough to find it herself, however last night was very out of character.
She had her immunisations on Tuesday and was very unwell Tuesday night, although did sleep well all night. Yesterday she was a bit under the weather and not hungry at all, only took about 15oz milk all day. She had a couple of short naps (30 mins) (she usually has 2 naps of about 1.5 hours and one nap of 1 hour during the day). She had her usual bedtime routine, bath, bottle, cuddle and by 19:00 I knew she was tired, she was rubbing her eyes and getting tearful, so I swaddled her and she fell asleep immediately.
I put her to bed fast asleep, but she woke half an hour later and was absolutely wide awake. She was almost hyper, kicking her legs like mad, laughing, squealing, smiling, etc. We then spent the next 2.5 hours trying to get her back to sleep, finally rocking her in her bouncy chair worked and she went back to bed at 22:00.
This lasted for 1 hour, she then woke up and was again wide awake - she spent the whole night wide awake (and as a result, so did I). Finally, at about 5:00am after 2 hours of being held, rocked and patted she went back to sleep. She then woke up at 7:15am and is now playing happily on her playmat.
She had taken some calpol before her bath as she was very tearful and hot so I believed she was still suffering from the effects of the jabs, but this may have made her hyper? Would that last all night though?
I am now not sure what to do with her today. Do I let her nap as normal, do I try to get her to sleep even more today as I don't want her to be overtired and then not settle again tonight? I have no idea what to do today or tonight now - this is so unusual for her. Please let me know what you would do today.