11 month old not sleeping at night anymore

After lots of help from this forum at about 6 months John was sleeping through quite well, apart from a few problems with early waking (5-6), which we had learned to live with, he has recently started waking a lot at night. Although we did have some problems over Christmas and New Year when staying with relatives, this problem seems to have started about 6 weeks ago, with a bout of illness that seems to have been cold, virus and bug (plus teething) after another.
While poorly we did all the things that we had stopped doing at 6 months, like letting in bed and feeding at night, mainly because he was refused feeds in the day or was throwing them up, and we also wanted to keep an eye on him when he was really poorly. So I realise that this is a problem that we have created ourself, but now (most nights, but not all) John wakes repeatedly in the night and will only go back to sleep if being held, he screams and screams if put back in bed or you try and sit down while holding him. He is worse with me than my husband, I suppose because he now thinks that he will get fed again. As we are both now back at work we have probably been doing anything to get him back to sleep and not sticking to the rules we followed before. We have tried PUPDCD, but now that he is older and more mobile it seems to work less and we are finding it too hard on our backs, plus he gets really angry now not just upset. We have attempted CC but he just goes for hours and is so loud now I really worry about the neighbours who have bedrooms adjoining his. But we need to do something as we have not had much sleep for over a month now and it seems to be getting worse.
Any advice on how to achieve the success we had before but with an older child please?

written 12 weeks ago by Sleepy9520 - 1 reply - viewed 37 times

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