The Incredible Non-sleeping 10 month old - Why? He used to be a 10 hr a night boy.

[Gingerbear]

What has happened to my DS? From 6-7 months or so he has had two 1-2hr daytime naps and slept through with an occasional murmur in the wee small hours for a dream feed. Now he has decided he is not sleeping at night - he goes down at 7pm for 20 mins or so, then is awake - crying, not settled by breastfeeding, inconsolable.

DH stayed up with him from 2am until 5am this morning watching the cricket. Then DS nodded off until 09.30.

I make sure his tummy is full about an hour before bed, and we have a bath/snuggle/BF routine, but it has all gone wrong.

could it be teething?

If calpol doesn't work, then I'd say it's separation anxiety/developmental spurt. Is he trying to do something? Crawling? Cruising? Walking? The urge to be a biped really can keep them and us awake at night
[props eyelids open emoticon]

Gingerbear, I can empathise.......a lot!
My DD is, for the moment, out of the otherside of something very similar.
Like your DS, she too was a fab sleeper, 11+hours , mostly straight through. So it was a bit of a shock when she suddenly decided to be WIDE awake for several hours at a time during the night. She cried wildly if put in her cot, would only be settled if held. It happened as I went back to work , she had been at nursery for a couple of weeks but was also unwell - full of cold, cough, ear infection, conjunctivitis......
The MIL was convinced it was teeth, btu then she has been blaming everything on 'teeth' since DD was born!
However we seem to have turned a corner....for now anyway. She has slept through for the past week, long may it continue.

Hope your DS reverts back to his sleepy self very soon - I'm sure he will.

He has 4 front incisors - not much dribbling going on - when do they get more teeth (can't remember when DD got hers).

Could be a crawling/walking thing - he has mjust mastered crawling and is cruising. When he wakes up he is standing up in the cot, shaking the bars like a demented prisoner.

Have calpol at the ready tonight, but (fingers crossed) he has been asleep since 8pm tonight, and not much murmuring so far.