Hi everyone - I'm at my wits end and really can't cope with much more so I'm in desperate need of advice. I've got a 16 m/o son who has never been an amazing sleeper - however we had a few months of him only waking once or so for his dummy in the night, which isn't ideal but I'd take it atm! He's always gone down to sleep fine after a routine of bath, change and bottle and generally given us evenings to ourselves.
However, for the past few weeks he's started waking constantly through the night, sometimes during the evening and often at that worst point when we've just gone to sleep, for no apparent reason. The problem is when we go in, replace the dummy, give him water or Calpol, cuddle him, pat him etc he's fine but now the minute we leave the room he screams and screams and gradual retreat is working less and less. After trying all the things above and bringing him in with us, (which used to work if nothing else did but now doesn't), we've resorted to turning the monitor down and trying to let him cry it out a bit, but he will literally scream for an hour if we leave him.
Our daughter is due in 11 weeks and both my husband and I are already on our knees with tiredness - I'm so worried about how we're going to cope with DS being like this while already being up with a newborn so any advice would be so helpful.
Thank you :)