Hi,
I'm posting on behalf of myself and my partner. We are new(ish) parents to a amazing 11 month old baby boy. He never really had any sleeping issues minus the new born stage of waking all the time. He eventually sorted himself and started sleeping all if not most the night. He's now 11 months old and has started waking 2-4 times a night.
I'll eliminate some potential questions anyone may have who looks at this.
(Sleep routine)
:He wakes around 7, sometimes 8 if he's been up a lot.
: He gets 1 nap around 2-3pm(sometimes earlier) and usually only sleeps for a hour. He used to get 2 but just randomly stopped wanting a second one and seemed fine with that.
:He goes to sleep between 7.30-8pm
(Eating routine)
:Once he's been awake for maybe 30 or so mins he'll get his porridge in the morning. Sometimes he won't eat it all and leaves maybe half. He'll then get a bottle of full fat milk(non formula). He gets one formula bottle and that's usually half hour before bed.
:In the late morning (around 11) he'll get a little snack biscuit thing that he loves, nothing over the top.
: Lunch is usually around 12.30-1pm and he'll have maybe some soup or something similar.
: he'll get a small snack from then in-between dinner maybe some full fat milk if we feel he's hungry.
:Dinner is around 5pm and he'll get one of those baby dinner pot things. Cottage pie, spaghetti etc and he loves them. Eats it all usually however has recently started leaving some. Sometimes we let him eat what we are cooking. Chicken or something easy for him.
: He gets a supper sometimes (rarely as we felt he didn't need it)
: He'll get his formula bottle(9oz) about 30-45 mins before bed(sometimes he won't drink it all and can leave anywhere between 2-3oz).
He doesn't need the bottle to fall asleep thankfully. Just his dummy and mummy cuddles. He falls asleep with no issues.
Now this is where we are really scractching our heads. Without fail maybe a hour or 2 after being asleep he'll awake crying. This usually is solved with his dummy being put back in but sometimes he gets himself in such a mess we need to lift him out and cuddle him back to sleep(not always)
Around 12-1am he'll start making this weird groaning noise. It can last for ages sometimes. He's not awake when he does this and he's usually pretty loud so we tend to be woke up by it(he has his own room). Sometimes he'll stop and continue to sleep but most of the time he wakes and really starts crying. The dummy nor cuddles can soothe him and we've had to recently bring him downstairs and wake him up properly and resettle him by giving him his dummy and cuddling but that takes about 45 mins as he fights us to go back to sleep sometimes.
Once back asleep again he sometimes will wake around 4 and the dummy usually settles him pretty easily. I can imagine this just sounds like he's waking because of his dummy not being in but he went for months and months of falling asleep with it and not needing it in all night to stay asleep.
We've ruled out any sickness,ear infection etc. The only real thing going on at the moment is teething. But I'm not sure if teething can make him this bad at night? I really hope it is and it'll pass but because he teethed at a young age and still slept through we are wondering if it's something else. Does anyone else have any suggestions or have been through this themselves.
Thanks for reading.