Night sleeping

Hi all

So we still have interesting nights with Miss G. Her cot is in our bedroom, right up against our bed. We did have it side carred but things temporarily improved and we put the side of the cot up. She has woken A LOT since about four months. She still wakes probably about six times a night but the majority of these wakings, she can be settled relatively easily. It is the other one or two wakings that are the issue. During these wakings, she will scream hysterically and inconsolably. We begin by patting her to reassure her (works the rest of the night) but this is pointless and her cries escalate very quickly. As she screams, she will be rolling and writhing around her cot like she is in huge amounts of discomfort (makes me wonder about night terrors) and when we pick her up, she still will not be comforted. Even in our arms, she screams and screams and writhes. This will typically go on for about two hours. It doesn't seem to matter how much/little she has eaten during the day, I can feed her and she just mucks around rather than having a good feed so I am not convinced that it is hunger related, she can have good sleeps/bad sleeps during the day and has no effect on her night wakings so I don't think it is overtired/too much sleep during the day kind of thing. Something else I am noticing though, during the day. is that it seems to really hurt her to have a poo. They don't seem overly hard or runny but really pong. Her bum is a little bit red but I wouldn't have thought enough to cause the discomfort that she is obviously having plus given her age, could also be redness from teething (still a little gummy bear with no teeth).

So, thoughts? Night terrors? Food intolerance (given the sore poo plus I am coeliac myself)? Plain old teething? I don't know what to do/where to turn and just feel so damn helpless.

TIA

morning how old is she?

She is eleven months

Have you tried taking her to an osteo?
I'd be getting her checked for food intolerances given yours!

We have been to a craniosacral therapist. Are osteos/chiros/cs therapists much if a muchness when it comes to treating infants? Am definitely going to get in touch with the paed on Monday morning. Poor wee poppet is getting way too upset.

It does sound like something is hurting her. Could reflux be a possibility? Even silent reflux? I don't know much about food intolerances but I guess that could explain the behaviour too.

She did have a bit of silent reflux when she was tiny but it seemed to stop bothering her when she hit about three months. That could see be a possibility too.

this is what Spock use to do. fortuantly it is rare these days to have the hr long sessions. Spock still wakes every 2-3 hrs, sometimes she will squeal in her sleep and ill gobto resettle her but she is still asleep. I notice if she is in pain/discomfort that is stopping her sleep (you can tell she is tired and trying to sleep but its stopping her) I burb her. like I did when she was a little baby, put her over my shoulder and pat her on the back. Sometimes she burbs, sometimes she farts. and then she is happy.

don't know if this helps, but Spock is now 12 1/2 months and has only really gotten better in the last couple of weeks. so was doinfg simular to miss G at her age.

Yes! She does that - the little cry in her sleep. Or she will be rubbing her eyes like crazy one second then squirming like mad the next. Though when she starts to ramp up and we pick her up and pat her back, nothing comes out.

Is it something that Spock seemed to resolve on her own? Or did you try something different?

we started not giving her solids after a certain time... but that doesn't seem to be an issue now. I've stopped bf her to sleep in the evening. I bf her and we have a cuddle on the couch and then laydown with her to sleep. we also offer sips of water when she wakes up at night.
but I think mostly it has resolved as she got bigger

My DD2 had similar issues. When she woke at night she would be wriggling and seem like she had a sore belly. At around a year old I started pumping her full of yoghurt to improve the good bacteria in her gut. It seemed to work. Not that she became a perfect sleeper or anything (still wakes at nearly 2), but she did improve and didn't seem as uncomfortable when she woke.

But given you are coeliac, I would be following up on that.