I posted last week about my nearly 1 year old’s sleep over the past few weeks. He’s been thrashing around his cot every night in his sleep making groaning noises, but it’s now that extreme that he wakes himself suddenly and cries. He screams. It’s happening every hour, every night. Sometimes I can soothe him by a cuddle or just a rub/pat, other times he’s then wide awake for over an hour. I’ll get him back down then a short while later he’s awake and crying again. Even when he is asleep he’s wriggling all over the place and making random noises. I could turn off the monitor but his room is down the corridor and I’m worried I wouldn’t hear him cry if I turned it off so I feel like I’m hardly getting any sleep at all. I feel exhausted and so low. Why is this happening? He was a good sleeper before and can self settle. He doesn’t do this for his naps, just night sleep.
There have been some changes recently, Ive gone back to work so he goes to a childminder two days a week. He also had a development delay but a month ago had physio sessions and within a few days apart learnt to sit independently, roll all over the place and seems to be trying to crawl. Could the disruption to his night sleep be development related? Today I cried at work because I am that tired it’s making my mood so low and I dread bedtime. I need reassurance that this will pass