Night waking

[George30]

Wondering if anyone had any tips on how to deal with a 19 month old who has suddenly gone wrong in the sleep department. DS has always been pretty good but for the last two weeks has only gone through the night once and has generally woken (at a variety of times but all after midnight) and screamed for between an hour and two hours. Nothing I do seems to work and eventually I think exhaustion takes over. Have tried shushing, rubbing his back or hair, just coming into the room but staying quiet or telling him gently its sleep time and even brought him into bed with us twice - but he won't settle then and throws himself around. Last night I did try ignoring him after I'd been in and shushed 7 times but I had to give up after twenty minutes as he was escalating. Am getting quite desperate. Probably should say that we did move a month ago and I guess it might all be related to that as he is settling in to a new nursery but I'd still be grateful to hear any tips or advice.

Thanks

I have a 14 mth old who is waking through the night. He has always been really good but for the last couple of mths he settles down as usual (bath, bottle, book, bed) but wakes up without fail at 5 am. I've tried sleep feeds (with a bottle of milk mixed with baby rice), putting him to bed later on, controlled crying, more food... Nothing seems to work. He eats loads, so the HV said he can't really be hungry, but he is!, he wants a bottle at 5am, and will go to sleep for another hour or so (as long as he is in our bed). This is not a lot of fun!!! Any ideas anyone???

My dd who's 18 months started sleeping through the night at 6 weeks which was great but once she could hold her own bottle she then wanted it at night and I'm now stuck in having to in when she wakes to hand over a bottle of milk that she sucks on for two mins then leaves. I've tried not givin it givin water, the controlled cying and I don't know how to stop it!
I know I'm lucky I'm not awake long but I would kill for a night of unbroken sleep!!!

Does she have a dummy? Ds does, but that's not sending him back to sleep. He likes a bottle. Tonight he has a night light on and a selection of toys at the end of his cot. I'll let you know how we get on tomorrow...fingers crossed ps had his first christmas play at nursery today - he was soooo cute! He even waved to me without crying. My baby's not a baby anymore! (time for another pregnancy?! ) x

Ds was up most of the night, he's got a new tooth tho today so maybe that's why he's not sleeping. He threw some of the toys out of the cot at 2am!!! Maybe he wanted different ones! We keep trying.....

Had an ok nights sleep last night but Friday was fun dd can unzip her grobag and took it off 3 times and wanted milk each time! I left it off the last time but then half an hour later she was crying cos she was cold and then went back to sleep without her bottle!!! You just cant win!! She dosen't have a dummy she wouldn't take one when she was baby I wish now she did!!!

DD didn't sleep through the night until she was 18 months old. I did the same as you, rocking, rubbing, patting, soothing, singing etc all to no avail. First it was hunger, then the dummy, then she needed changing, the variety of reasons was astounding.

DH and I finally got to breaking point around the time of her first birthday and went to the HV to ask what we should do. She referred us to a sleep clinic and suggested we leave her to cry if we didn't rush to her in the middle of the night. We did this for what felt like ages, but eventually she got used to the fact that neither one of us was going to run in there to sort her out.

Yes, she did keep us awake, but it was slightly less stressful laying in bed wide awake, than it was getting up to her and shushing etc with her.

It really worked for us, and the screaming and crying did get to be too much at times. Obviously no-one wants to hear their child screaming and getting in a state but as DH regularly mentions, if I didn't do it, I would've made a rod for my own back.

Good luck