Experiences of night waking due to food intolerance in toddler please!

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I still don't know if my 18mo is dairy intolerant as the only symptom I thought he had was bad sleep. Can this be the only symptom? He had got better recently, that is, only waking briefly once or twice but the last few days I've been introducing dairy in the form of baked goods and he seems to be quite unsettled at night between 11pm and 2am. He doesn't have wind or seem to have stomach ache, he is just very unsettled - dropping off to sleep then being awake again and crying/moaning until I check on him. He isn't teething atm as he has 16 teeth already and too early for two year molars. Any ideas/opinions?

My DD is 19mo tomorrow. She DID have a dairy intolerance, which we're currently challenging. However, she's up in the night crying a few times, normally around the same time as your DS!

I'm not sure if it is an intolerance in your DS, but I don't think it is in my DD as she's like this whether she has dairy or not! Just wanted to let you know that you're not alone. Hopefully it's just a phase. Is DS going through any sort of separation anxiety? DD cries when I leave the room during the day, when DH goes to work in the morning, and when DH or I leave her bedroom at bedtime.

I feel your pain, whatever the reason!

Ha ha, thanks Coodle, always nice to know others are living it too! He is VERY attached to me, but is happy to be left at bedtime and fine when left with DH but will ask for me on and off until I reappear. He isn't as clingy as he was a few weeks back though. Maybe is just a phase. We are off on holiday in a few weeks and he will be sharing a room with us so I expect sleep will go tits up after that anyway - he is quick to cotton on to things and I reckon he will enjoy room sharing and not want it to end when we get home!

Sounds familiar! All I hear at the moment is "...Mum?" especially when I've left the room! DD goes to sleep by herself but always cries for the first minute or so when you leave the room, no matter which one of us puts her to bed.

I hope your holiday doesn't disrupt DS' sleep even more! We had to bring DD into our bed the other night because it was so bad, and were worried she'd expect it the next night as well. Luckily she didn't (co-sleeping is so not for us!) but she was still up crying!

Hope it sorts itself for you soon!

Have you ever seen family guy? We have the classic 'Mum, Mum, Mummy, Mummy, Mum, Mummy, Mum......' Until I respond! Last night was slightly better, unsettled between 2.30 and 4.30am, ended up giving Calpol as seemed to be rubbing mouth a lot, which he does when teething. Confusing though as he has all his teeth cut apart from back 4 molars now. One of his canines is just through the gum. Could it still cause pain even though it's cut through?

Pink it'll probably be the back molars moving around under the gum causing pain. My dd is 18mo next week and she's got 16 teeth through- had her canines through by 16mo but she's definitely getting pain from molars. You can feel a huge bump on one side but I know they take ages to cut due to their size.

Only other thing I can suggest is there is supposedly another sleep regression between 17-19mo which affects some children more than others. Might be worth googling it.

Thanks Jonesey, and here was me thinking we might get a break from teething for now! His sleep has been one big regression... Although normally he is great at going for a nap but today he fought it for 45 mins, so maybe is some kind of regression. I'm going to write off getting a good nights sleep until he is at least two I think.....