Poorly baby sleep gone to pot!!

[Newmum26]

My 16 month old DS has a cold and sore throat with a cough and for the last few nights my brilliant sleeping baby has been waking up all through the night and last night I was up from 2-5 just trying to get him to go back to sleep 💤
Now he's just refused to go down in his cot which he never does for his nap and I'm currently sat crying with his asleep on me 😴😢
I know it's because he's poorly but I'm so shattered I'm really feeling it today and just need some words of wisdom that it will all be back to normal soon ! X

I am sending you ALLLL THE HUGS. My DD is the same age as your DS and last week she had a viral ear infection which led to a bad fever. She was just the worst, she wouldn’t nap for longer than half an hour (even though she was so tired she kept lying down on the front room floor for little “rests”) and I was up every hour and a half with her in the night. Even though I knew it was because she was ill, even though I desperately wanted to comfort her, there was a point at around 4am one morning where I was just like “I have done all I can, what more can I do, why won’t she sleep when sleep is what she neeeeeeds WHHHHHHHY” haha. (Hollow laugh!) Anyway, a few days later and she was feeling better. She went back to having her long morning nap. She went back to sleeping 4 hour blocks overnight (she’s never slept through, but that’s not the issue here). So all I can say is this too shall pass. While in the depths of tiredness it can seem like it never will but colds are over within a week and then it’ll all be a memory. Hang in there!

This will pass! You probably have the calpol/nurofen routine on. Can he sleep in your bed with you for a wee while? I usually shuffle dd onto a pillow in my bed and leave her there while I get my self sorted.