possible reason for major sleep regression??

drose8721

ok, so DS has never been a great sleeper, but around 8 months he was doing 6 to 8 hours at a time.  Then he started getting his top teeth in and it hasn't gone back to the way it was for the past 1 1/2 months!  His top 2 were all the way in for over a week now.  We noticed he's getting two teeth around his top ones.  His sleeping is getting worse.  He's gone from 4 hour chunks....to last night every 2 hours!  I just pat or rock him or feed him and he goes back to sleep.  This seems a little dramatic for teething?  He got over his first cold a week ago.   He seems healthy and happy when he's awake.  It doesn't seem to matter how much I feed him during the day, he's still waking up!!!!!  Any ideas, suggestions or possible reasons?

TIA!!!!

courtneybrooke921

I'm sorry to hear this.

My DD has never been a great sleeper either but about a month ago finally starting sleeping through the night (7 PM - 6:30 AM). Last Wednesday she started waking up at 5:00 AM for some reason.

Then 3 nights ago she woke up at 3:30 AM (first time in a long time) and the only way to calm her was to nurse her. I think she's teething but I don't see any new teeth (she already has 7!) - last night she slept 7 PM - 5:45 AM so I can't be too annoyed but I am blaming any sleeping weirdness on teething.

Hope your LO goes back to sleeping long stretches!