16 month old has suddenly started waking every 2 hours!!!

[Kirky12]

My DS is 16 months and for the last two weeks his sleep at night has been going haywire! he goes to bed fine at 7pm but between 12-4 he's up and down, crying, wailing, wanting milk and generally making reallu upset. He wasn't a good sleeper anyway so has quite a strict rountine before bed and has always had the no conversation rule in the night ....but this seems like a turn for the worse...am i doing anyting wrong? I have been giving him more milk to help settle him but is this actually causing him to wake more often???

Might be the molars coming through. Both mine suffered from awful nights when theirs came through. Lasted about a month each time, although their molars came through in one hit, ouch!

We also had this at 16 months and it was the molars at the root of it. Again, it lasted on and off for about a month and then two came through at once. We just gave pain relief and then sat with him until he went back to sleep (which often took up to 1.5 hours). Twas tedious but it passed. Roll on the next molars...