Hopefully I am not speaking too soon here but we seem to have passed a nasty stage in Charlie’s development. I am not 100% sure of what actually happened but I have a few theories. He went from having 3 naps a day and 12 hours sleep a night to basically NOT SLEEPING! and when he was awake he was whingey.
Its funny really but I have actually found these last few weeks harder than when Charlie was a newborn and waking every three hours. Maybe this is because I had gotten used to getting a good 7 hours sleep or maybe I have actually forgotten what it was really like in the beginning. Either way it drove me crazy.
I mentioned before that I had some theories well here they are. Firstly I put the problem down to the possibility that he was about to cut his first tooth, he had all the signs, vomitting, pain from gas (reminding me of the days he had colic) and the fact that his hands were constantly in his mouth.
My second theory is something called sleep regression. Apparently babies go through some pretty tough developmental stages when they are learning something new. Their minds are working overtime trying to master their new skill and this can effect their sleep and their ability to sleep.
All of this would make sense as Charlie is currently learning how to crawl and has started babbling and I have also heard that the pain of cutting a tooth is more than an adult can handle.
I am pleased to say that he changed back to his normal self overnight, well nearly, his new thing is waking up at 4.30am every morning but fingers crossed the more he tires himself out crawling the longer he will sleep at night!