Ok - dd slept through the night from about 4 weeks old and was regularly sleeping around 11 hours at 3 months. Then at about 4 and a half months she started waking once in the night. This coincided with a chesty cough/cold thing so we put it down to illness. But as this eased off she was still waking. We thought maybe a growth spurt but she wouldn't take any more milk. We also began to wean her so thought maybe this was causing the problem - we were kind of hoping it would just settle down after a while.
... 6 weeks later and things just keep getting worse!! The cold/cough seems to ease off and then come back again every few days. Been to docs but he says not an infection so won't give her anything. She has been awful at night, taking at least an hour to settle & then again when she wakes up in the night (usually twice). We noticed at the weekend that her bottom 2 teeth are coming through and wonder if this could be the cause of all the problems? (can a cough be connected with teething?) The past 2 nights she has cried every hour - when I go in to her she isn't even awake, just crying. I give her the dummy, wait a couple of minutes til she drifts off & then take it out again - then that's it til the next hour. I've tried to give her milk/water when she's crying but she's not interested - just asleep! So why's she crying??!!
We had no sleep last night at all & I'm just sat watching tv downstairs tonight so dh can try get some sleep (he's in work at 4am). This is the worst I've felt since having dd - it's like we're going backwards and having a newborn again WE gave her some nurofen before bedtime but that hasn't made a difference. She was just crying again at 12am so I gave her some of those teething granules from boots (fingers crossed?!)
Please someone tell me they've experienced something similar and there is an end in sight...