My 6mo had started waking hourly at night.
I thought it might be teething, but his teeth erupted over a week ago, maybe two. Starting solids, but that’s been going on a good few weeks now. Growth spurt? But the sleep issues have been getting worse and worse for the last few weeks.
I’ve slept in the spare room for months as his noisy sleeping keeps me awake, but he slept in the snuzpod in the same room as my partner. He’s been in his own room for about a month, which started off great and has gradually gone downhill until now when we’re getting hourly wakings all night long. Paracetamol and ibuprofen have no effect, and he doesn’t seem like he’s in any pain during the day anyway. We tried just in case. Sometimes it’s taking an hour or two to get him back down, he’s often squirming around on us as we’re trying to get him back to sleep and wakes up. Often waking up right after we’ve put him down. It’s really bad.
The only thing I notice is that he coughs sometimes and slightly runny nose. He had covid about 4 weeks ago but it was over very quickly and sleep has been getting worse and worse since, even though the cough and runny nose has gotten better, and that sort of thing didn’t seem to bother him before. Doesn’t really seem like it’s that that’s bothering him now, in all honesty.
Desperate for ideas about how to help him, what it could be? otherwise we will have to sleep train. It’s unbearable.