Hi
My DS (10 months) has never been a great sleeper but for the last few weeks he's been worse than normal. He's generally in bed asleep by 8pm but then wakes around 10pm (just when I'm planning on going to bed!) and can be up for hours. For a while it was always 4 hours but last night it was only(!!) 3. We usually try patting him back to sleep which tends to work but he's only asleep for a minute or so and then he's screaming again. Feeding him (out of desperation, I'm fairly sure he's not hungry) or co-sleeping doesn't make that much difference. I've thought of trying controlled crying but what really makes him scream is me leaving the room so I don't see how it would work. We've tried leaving him but he cried for an hour before we went in to him. He's a happy wee boy during the day so I guess if he's teething it can't be that bad. Last night we even tried Medised just in case he was in pain.
He has had spells of good sleeping and did sleep from 8pm to 8am.
Any thoughts/tips would be really welcome as I've run out of ideas of what to do to improve things.
TIA
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10mo DS was awake for three hours last night - how do I get him back to sleep??
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runnervt · 26/02/2007 17:28
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