Teething and head standing.

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Ds2 is just 1 yr old, struggling with top two teeth and so we are having some issues w sleep. When he wakes in the night he repeatedly tries to stand on his head. His inability to do this seems to upset him more than his teeth.

We cosleep for the present and he often ends up falling asleep with his head off the edge of the bed. It seems to be the only position he's comfortable in. This is not v restful for me! (bed is only 18 inches off floor but still a worry). Any experience/ explanations?

No one? I really want to understand the head standing - what developmental leap is this???

Don't know that I have any advice but I just wanted to say it sounds very cute! Not in the middle of the night I guess.

DD2 (1) is trying to stand on her head a lot in the day. I suppose they're just seeing if they can do it.

I'm not against cosleeping in principle but perhaps it's time to sleep separately if it's not working for you any more? Have you tried putting him in his own cot?

Co sleeping is fine - starts night in his cot, comes in with me if am too tired to wait and put back down. The head standing is a PIA tho, don't remember ds1 doing this ever.

Anyone else with experience of 1 year olds staying up all night to practice headstands?

Never heard of this but I find that with teething a dose of nurofen will see my dd till morning if you are not adverse to it.

I have no idea of this is relevant but an osteopath once told me that when the top teeth begin to move down and eventually appear, that this draws down on the bones in the head and around the sinuses. Often this is why teething babies can be a bit sniffly and snotty (a serious understatement in our case ) I wonder if the head standing has something to do with the relief of this pressure...