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13mo breaking my heart at bedtime and during the night :-(

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PercyPigs0 · 15/04/2018 21:38

Some help or advice would be very much appreciated.

13mo DS has just (in the last week or so) started to become terrified of going to sleep. If DH even attempts to put him to bed he screams and if DH tries to go in when he wakes at night he screams even more.
If I put him to bed he will be dead asleep in my arms but as soon as he feels he is being put down he clings onto anything and everything for dear life and looks absolutely terrified. He has been waking maybe twice a night and his screams go from zero to a hundred in a split second - he just sits bolt upright and screams. The last few nights the only way I've been able to settle him is to bring him in with us and the only way he will calm is if his face is pressed right into my neck. He cries in his sleep, does the little distressed hiccupping noise when he is falling asleep... I just have no idea what has gone wrong! The cries and screams are heartbreaking Sad

Could it be nightmares? Don't think its night terrors as he properly wakes and knows who has gone into him.

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sourpatchkid · 16/04/2018 13:09

Is it separation anxiety? Prime age for it?

My DS cries and wimpers in his slee sometimes. I have wondered about nightmares - however many a time it's been pain (wind, teething, ear infections) - have you checked for pain?

crazycatlady5 · 16/04/2018 23:17

Sounds like separation anxiety - keep him in with you for now and when he starts feeling better you could gradually try the cot again. Or side car his cot next to your bed.

steppemum · 17/04/2018 10:43

Would he fall aseep with you next to him rather than on you? So it is easier to creep out?

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