Exhausted & need advice 😴😭

My LB is 16 months and never been a great sleeper, but the last couple of months has got worse. His nap and bedtime routine seem to be right with guidance, he doesn’t fight them. It’s just night time sleep. He goes down around 7 and can be back awake at 10/11/12, wanting milk, then he used to go back down in the cot, but now it’s a battle. Some nights he will stay awake for hours. Then he ends up in with me, whinging all night like he can’t get comfy. Last night he had 7oz at 7, 11/12 and then at half 5. He woke up still crying and cranky. I’m so stressed about the sleep and night bottles, but I can’t get him to eat any more in the day either. Im just exhausted and drained 😭😭 any advice or words of wisdom ❤️

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You need to check if he has any molars coming through. My little boy was just like this and then realized he had 4 fangs and a molar coming through at the same time. It was rough especially since my 16 month old was waking up more than the newborn 😴

He’s had 4 molars coming through for a while, the bottom two are fully through now, but the two top ones are only part way through (i think) from what I can see. Just feels like it’s been going on for months 😭

How much daytime sleep is he having? We were struggling for a long time. LB would wake up around midnight and would be up for around 2 hours. We dropped to 1 nap for less than 2 hours (usually around 12:30 - 14:00) and he goes to bed around 7pm. He wakes early (anywhere between 4am and 6am) but I'll take the 4am wake up over midnight any day.

@Holli I could have written this myself, although bottles don’t seem to work nor is interested in having any milks he’s just up alll night whinging and being restless from 10pm onwards. Even sleeping in with him all night doesn’t make it any better. Teeth seem to be endless and no amount of calpol seems to make it any better either! So no advice but just some solace for us both that we’re in the same boat. I’ve reached out to the doctors and the hv for advice as we don’t know what to do anymore. No one is getting any sleep.

Maybe is canine teeths? My baby LB is 16 months and 2 weeks and the last 2 nights was very bad sleep, this morning i finded 1 canine almost out.

@Bianca we have been on one nap for just over a month now I think, with a couple of 2 nap days if I happen to be driving in the morning or the nights been really bad. He on average will nap around 12 for 1.5-2 hours and then goes to bed around 7. Yeah he wakes from 4, normally ready for the day. That’s the best we ever get, if he sleeps through till then, but that’s getting less and less at the moment 😭 @Rosie we are the same with him in with us, doesn’t properly settle. Calpol also doesn’t seem to settle him. These people who say calpol knocks them out… not him 🙈😂 What have the HV/doctors said? @Angela I’ve not seen his canines but his molars have been coming through for weeks now. So I really hope it’s not straight into those 😭😭

@Holli I’m meeting with the HV tomorrow for some advice and the dr suggested reflux so he’s back on gaviscon but that hasn’t made any difference either. So no better off.

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