Hi all, my boy is 20 months and for the last 7 weeks has been waking at night crying and needs us to resettle him. Sometimes takes an hour, but often up to two. If left, he cries. Sometimes this happens just twice in a week, sometimes every night.
He has had canines coming through, but could this really be responsible for 7 weeks of wakings? He wakes even if he's had calpol / ibuprofen / teething powder. Could it be yet another sleep regression?
I am 20 weeks pregnant and struggling to sleep as it is between back pain and insomnia so this is really not great timing.
I'm wondering if we will have to do controlled crying again. I don't think he goes back to sleep any quicker for us being there, in fact I think it's probably slower because he wants to interact and play. I don't think there is anything actually wrong with him as he stops crying the second we open the door, so it does seem to be just "hello I'm awake and I want someone to play with".
Background: He has slept through since 11 months. His sleep was awful prior to that, we tried all the gentle methods, but total fail. We ended up doing controlled crying in desperation as I was existing on about 3 hours sleep per night and back to work 2 weeks later. It worked like a charm, slept through after 2 nights and has done ever since unless ill. I still feel horrible that i had to do it though.
Any advice anyone? Last night was particularly awful, I've been up since 2.15 am on 3 hours sleep and rather at my wits end this morning.