17 month old repeatedly waking

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Hi
DS is our third child (so we've been through this before).
He goes to bed brilliantly, awake and happy and i don't have to go back in to him.

Up til about ten months he'd wake to feed and go back to sleep. Then he was pretty huge and eating well and he didn't seem bothered about feeding so when he woke id give him his dummy and cuddle him and put him back in the cot.

Then at about 14 months he started sleeping through. Then 2 months later in August we went on holiday. And since then he hasn't slept through and its getting worse and worse.

He wakes sometimes at 5am but often at 1230am and screams til i cave in and pop him in our bed. But even then he seems to toss and turn and wake several times.
And the weird thing is he is desperate to breastfeed through the night....though we generally stopped night feeds months ago.

Since the holiday there have been the usual run of teething and colds etc which i think makes it harder to get back into routine. But generally hes well and happy and no big changes here.

Im not sure what im asking really. .....why is it getting worse? Why is he feeding again?What can we do? I know really the answer (for us) is the pat him, lie him down and keep doing it til he settles. But im knackered. And hes heavy and strong!

Strangely, as i write this, one thing that occurs to me is that his daytime napping was terrible til he was about 1....maybe 45 min at most.....whilst now he will sleep for 2 hours. Should i wake him and see if it improves his night sleep? (Please
say no!)

Thanks for any advice.

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Probably yet another regression. Is he still having 2 naps a day if so change to 1. Maybe reduce it slightly also. Not sure what to suggest really

I don’t have any advice but am more here with some solidarity. My DD is 16 months and her sleep has been terrible lately. Same as yours, self settles down to bed fine at half 6-7ish but then wakes at least twice a night (10pm / 1am / up at 6am). We’ve also had episodes of her being awake for an hour and a half in the night most nights, seemingly for no rhyme or reason. She’s never slept through though, bar the odd freak night here and there, so I’m kind of just rolling with it currently. Oh and she also still wakes for bottles, which I’m currently trying to whittle down... (only offering her 2oz and boy oh boy is she cross about it 😒)

As PP says, maybe I’m guessing it’s an annoying phase. There is supposed to be a sleep regression around 18 months, maybe it’s just hitting our LOs early?!

Anyway, I know how you feel as some nights it all gets too much for me and I say melodramatic things at 1am like “I HAVEN’T HAD A DECENT NIGHT SLEEP SINCE I GOT PREGNANT IN 2016” and “SHE IS DOING THIS ON PURPOSE BECAUSE SHE KNOWS I JUST CLOSED MY EYES AGAIN” 😂 broken sleep sends me doolally, it seems haha.

Sending you wine and chocolate and . Hopefully this phase will be over pronto!

Thanks 2little and milk.

He's only ever had 1 daytime nap.

It doesn't really feel like a regression, just feels like the norm. Im knackered.

Thanks for commenting and the virtual wine and choc