E.B.
Hello, my name is E.. I am a 27 year old mother of one. My daughter recently went through a similar situation. She really never had a problem sleeping before. In early October she started waking up screaming. Not a whine but like something was wrong. I took her to the doctors and she had hands foot and mouth virus. Well, that pasted in about a week and she started sleeping for a couple days, then she started waking up screaming again. That went on for the rest of the month. Around the end of the month she had her 15 month appt. The doctor said sometimes when they get an illness, they regress back. The schedules they had are out the window. So you have to get them back on a schedule, again. She also said it could be nightmares, or night terrors, but i read up on the internet about it and the discriptions don't seem to fit. I think she was just use to us baby-ing her while she was sick and she wanted that. She is also, teething as well, which may had something to do with it. I tried to keep her up as long as possible, around 10-11 at night, not let her take long naps, so she would sleep at night. Then every night put her to bed a bit early. Her schedule used to be 8:30PM -6:30AM when she wasn't sleeping it was 8:30PM-12:30AM and was up until 3-4AM. Then i had to be up for work early. It takes a lot out of you, i know but eventually it will pass. Even though it seems like forever.