My 15-month-old son wakes every night and cries hysterically. My 15-month-old son is a little angel but is waking once a night and has done for the last two weeks. It is usually around midnight and he’s hysterical; when you go in he’s stood up pointing to the door. The only way to stop him crying is take him into another bedroom and sit with him for tens minutes until he calms down and then he goes straight back to sleep. He has slept from 7pm to 7am for months now – we did controlled crying successfully to get rid of his dummy – and he often stirs or wakes…

My 15-month-old daughter wakes and screams at night and sleeps little in the day. My 15-month-old daughter is a twin; she was born 10 weeks early. Unlike her sister she has never been a good sleeper and uses a dummy for all sleeps in her cot. At 13 months she was still waking several times a night when a friend who had followed the CLB routine suggested we try controlled crying. It took 3 nights of leaving her to scream (we went in to the nursery and comforted her when she first woke but we did not return). On night 1 she cried for 3.5 hrs, night 2, 2 hrs…

My 17mth old son is waking and screaming for hours but not every night. Since having a few illnesses(chest infection, gastric flu) my son has, in the last two months been waking at midnight and screaming for anything up to 4 hours sometimes coughing and on occasions this has made him sick. Although on some other nights he can sleep for 12 hours. There seems to be no pattern to this and the unpredictability is placing a strain on both me and my wife. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is to take him into bed with us as he settles and sleeps quickly. He seems contented in most other…

I am not sure if my 15.5mth daughter is waking through habit or because of her cold. My daughter has been sleeping very well since 8 months but now cries every time I put her into bed. Even if I sit somewhere in the room, not looking at her she goes off OK. I am trying not to get into this though. Our big problem though is that for the last 3 nights she has woken every hour and we are exhausted. She has a slight cold. Nothing terrible and is in good form in the day. I think her nose gets blocked and she gets distressed. She seems to…

For the last three weeks my 15mth son has not slept through the night. Is he waking through habit now? Following your routines, my son has slept through the night since around 4 months apart from any illnesses. However since the New Year he has not slept through the night. He has been poorly with viral infections that he seems to endlessly pick up from nursery and one of his molars is coming through which caused him some pain. He has also become quite clingy which he has never been before and he also started walking at Xmas. However, now he seems better during the day, not so clingy and…

What can I do for my 16mth son who wakes and cries for up to 4 hours at night? I am at my wits end and feeling very depressed as my happy little 16month old wakes in the night for sometimes 4 hours shouting, screaming and crying. It has been going on for a couple of months now and occurs usually every other night. Sometimes he doesn’t wake during the night but will wake around 6.30am – which is fine. I can then do the same thing each day and the next night he will wake around 12.30am and not go back off to sleep. He gets in a right…

My 13mth daughter has recently dropped her morning nap, she has now begun to wake in the late evening and become very distressed. I was wondering whether there were any associations between dropping the morning nap and coming into light sleep at 11pm. My 13m girl who, apart from a cry-down before she goes to sleep, has always been a good sleeper and has to be woken from most naps and in the mornings, has for the last month or so, fought or had just 10minute morning nap, followed by a proper nap of 1 1/2hr at 1/1.30pm. Within the last week she has not napped at all in the…

My daughter who is just 1 year old had slept through the night until nearly nine months. Since then she has had various illnesses. During these she started to wake in the night and needed a milk feed to settle her. Now she is waking three times every night and will only settle once she has had milk despite eating well in the day. I wonder if she has started to have night terrors as for the last two weeks she wakes every night at exactly 9.50pm. It can take an hour to settle her at this time. She has just started to walk so, thinking this first waking was…