22 Months Old and still not SLEEPING AT NIGHT!!!

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How are you going on this Mickyndan? Gosh, reading this thread is like my story (yes, it is 3.35am!!)

My boy is nearly 14 months old and is also a rough sleeper. The WORST thing is he goes to sleep fine and always has but wakes at around 2-3am and whines for hours. We tried the no-cry method till about 8 months when I cracked it and went full on CC with him - that worked within a night for about 2 weeks but then he got sick so we cuddled him heaps for a few months. Gosh its all a blur but we have been letthim him cry for 2-3 mins then checking him and cutting out night bottles and letting him go for 5-10 mins but he still wakes! About 1 in 10 he sleeps thru. It is so hard because sometimes if I go to him straight away when he cries he will roll over and sleep and only wake that one time, other times going to him straight away only revs him up. We've tried co-sleeping (he thinks it is a game) and cuddling him to sleep (it agitates him, even if I rock him for 30 mins) and restricting fluids after 4pm (sounds bad but he drinks heaps during the day and we found if he had late night drinks he would pee through everything once or twice a night without fail). But I have gone back to a 3am bottle last few nights.

Ramble ramble ramble. Sorry to hijack thread here Mickyndan but I have tried so long to do this without asking for help and I am sick of it. Worst thing is I am 22 weeks pg and worrying what is going to happen with #2 arrives!!!

ETA: Flynn really is perfect in all other respects, and realy goes to sleep well. He was actually that good and slept so well and often during the first 3 months I worried he was autistic!! Is not sleeping the price I have to pay for an otherwise placid nature?? I am kinda hoping #2 is demon-child during the day but one of those mythical 10-12 hour sleepers at night LOL!!!

ETA #2 : the milk I gave him seems to have worked - maybe he needs it? worth I try I guess.........

ETA#3 : Nope, he is talking to himself now. At least he's not cryin LOL!