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16mo suddenly won't sleep at night

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BarrelOfMonkeys · 22/05/2010 19:19

Up until the last week, DD has been pretty regular in her 'bed at 7, asleep at 7.30' routine, but for the past five nights she's just stayed awake intermittently babbling and crying - we've had to go in to her a few times to calm her when she's started getting into a state, and given paracetomol on a couple of occasions as she has back teeth coming through, but previously she's not been as unsettled for as long with teeth. It's only when it gets dark she starts settling, so around 9-9.30 - however light evenings haven't been a problem for her until this week. It's also hot, so she's just in a vest/babygrow instead of having a grobag or blanket, so that's changed too. Not sure if it is any or all of the above contributing to the change! She's still getting up at the usual time in the morning but is getting tired earlier in the day so obviously needs the sleep she's missing out on.

Please tell me this is normal and will pass and we'll get our evenings back again! (Am pregnant at the moment and knackered, my bedtime's 9pm most nights so really could do with her settling before then!)

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fabulosa · 22/05/2010 20:28

My DS is only 8m so quite a bit younger but he wouldn't settle last night. He was sick after having his milk which woke him up and disrupted his bedtime routine. I had to take him out of his grobag as well as he'd been sick on it and as it was so hot I just put him down in his vest. He wouldn't settle at all: 2.5(!) hours later I wondered if going through the bedtime routine would work again so I took him into the bathroom and put another grobag on him (a 2.5 tog one which I hadn't put in him before because of the heat) and he settled immediately. he was knackered by then, but I think he associates getting into his grobag with bedtime as much as anything else, so when it's not there he didn't realise it was time for bed. Not sure if that helps or if that's the case with your DD, but I think that was what the problem was for us last night.

BarrelOfMonkeys · 24/05/2010 19:58

Thanks - the last couple of nights have been a bit better so maybe it is just 'one of those things' and I will never know...

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