19 month old keeps waking up
Wondering if anyone has had a similar experience, or currently going through this with their 18M-24M old. But our LO the last week or so has been waking up every night, sometimes twice a night to complain until he sits up and starts crying and refuses to go back down. Last night he went to bed at 8:30 am, and woke up at 1030 complaining about something.
We're not sure what we're dealing with. No stuffy nose, yet he repeatedly smacks his own face in the nose/mouth area as if he had a stuffy nose, which has led to a bloody nose a couple times in the past. When we go in there to check, he's breathing fine.
Lately he has been itching his eyes which we think is due to season allergies, so we've been giving him Childrens Zyrtec before bedtime, but he still wakes up around the 2 am mark. If he's not crying or whining, he just sits there and looks at the door until he either falls back asleep, or he just starts crying. And that has me wondering how long is he keeping himself awake overnight.
We're unsure if it's teething. He has most of his teeth, and he has a couple that have been coming in but it feels like they've been coming in for more than two weeks.
None of this seems to bother him throughout the day or disrupts his nap. He does appear to have less patience though, fighting diaper changes and getting irritated more often.
He has a diaper rash, but doesn't seem too bad and he's slept fine with diaper rashes before.
Please help because I'm at my wits end with this. If he wakes up, he doesn't go down unless one of us sleeps in the bed wit him, and even then he struggles to go back down for a good 30 minutes, and half the time will wake up again over god knows what.... I guess just to complain.
Sincerely,
One very tired father and mother.