14 Month Year Old suddenly waking during the night.

[MrShev]

Our DS has been a miracle sleeper since 6wks old and can be relied upon (health and new teeth permitting) to sleep 12 hours if he eats well in the evening.

For the last couple of weeks he has started waking up between 1-3am and taking sometimes 2 hours to settle again. He is not teething, is fit as a fiddle and eating (generally) very well in the evening. Last night we tried controlled crying and eventually we cracked and took him into our bed and he eventually conked out. We are now officially cream crackered after about a week of this.

We used the woman-who-cannot-be-named routines up until now with great results and have black out blinds as well.

So, any suggestions, thoughts or similar experiences will be greatly appreciated.

my ds did this a couple of months ago at about 13 months. think he was basically trying it on as we'd given in a couple of times when he was a bit off with teething. we bit the bullet one night (when neither of us had to go to work the next day and hadn't got any plans) and just kept putting him back in his cot. After about 3 hours he finally passed out. The next night we spent about 1/2 hour putting him back, since then (fingers crossed) he's been fine. He's woken up on the odd occasion but goes back to sleep easily.

I know it's really hard but i think you need to 'win' so that he realises you won't give in to him.

good luck

could he be too warm? my lo went through a stage of waking in the nght recently at about the same times you say and was taking 1-2 hours to settle back to sleep. It was my mum who commented that he had too much clothing/covers on and now he goes to sleep in either a short or long sleeved vest depending how cool it is when he goes to bed and just the lightest tog sleeping bag it is either .5 or 1) and has gone back to sleeping through.

We had some success with putting him back in his cot and so we are going to carry on in this vein for now. Thanks for the replies.

Will see whether he is too hot as well.
M