So we had a holiday and then some jetlag and then a few normal nights of sleep, and now he's just gone mental, progressively getting worse -
After a short period of sleep, he's started screaming and flailing - all sorts of climbing/crawling, grabbing, pushing, twisting his body.
He doesn't settle with being patted, picked up and cuddled, rocked, sung to - all things we've done ever since he was born. He sounds angry/frustrated - as though enraged to find himself awake...?
The only thing that interrupts the screaming is to take him for a walk to other parts of the flat but then as soon as we try again to settle him, the screaming starts again. Eventually he just stops, seemingly as randomly as he started, from exhaustion as much as anything I reckon.
First it was 2 hrs after he settled. The next night, 1 hr and 2 hrs after he settled. Last night, 1 hr and 2 hrs after he settled, AND 4 a.m. and 6 a.m.
tonight he's started it as soon as we're trying to put him down - a thing we haven't had trouble with for 6m. Dh has suggested since he didn't want to go to bed, we just didn't push it, but he's still intermittently crying his head off.
He had a hard time cutting his first 6 teeth but nothing like this, we are just absolutely baffled.
Any clues???