This is an interesting topic Jen, and funny you should bring this up now. Jacob woke up 2 nights ago with a terrible scream. He was absolutely screaming is little head off as well and it took quite a while to get him back off to sleep - we were wondering if he had a bad dream or something like that.

For about a week now, we've had some trouble getting Jacob to sleep at night (not every night). I'm unsure if it's just another little phase he's going through (I think some teeth may be causing him a bit of pain) as every now and then we have good runs with sleep, followed by bad patches. Silly me never learns that just because you get a few good nights sleep it doesn't necessarily mean it will stay that way forever LOL! So it's still a rude surprise when he starts to have a few feral nights again. But like I said, I'm not sure if it's his teeth upsetting him or if it is something else as it has largely been night time that we have had problems lately. It had crossed our minds too that perhaps he is a bit frightened of the dark....I guess they are getting to an age where they are more aware of this??

I don't know what to suggest in terms of helping to settle him, as we have been in the same situation, where we have had to rock him back to sleep.