Vomiting when put to bed

[codysmum]

My 15mth old DS used to sleep so good. 12 hours at night and 2 hours during the day... until last week... Last week i put him into his cot and walked out and he cried a little bit as he sometimes did, then he vomited everywhere. I got him to sleep in my bed and put him back to his own and he slept all night. Then the next two nights the same thing happened... so now we are sitting in with him every night until he goes to sleep which takes up to 3 hours most nights. But in the daytime he will not sleep, if you sit in with him he just talks to you and makes noises, I sat in there for 3 hours today and he did not one wink of sleep, now he is so tired and grumpy im going insane!! I think he is too young to vomit for attention so why would he be doing this? And why the sudden lack of needing sleep??

Any ideas would be helpful!:barf:

[poshBecks]

oh wow! was he really worked up? maybe take him to the doc? sorry i'm not much help :o

[codysmum]

nah not really worked up only cried for 30 sec, but it seems if we are sitting in with him he doesn't do it.

[mariafresnel]

Codysmum

Hi, I just wanted to let you knonw that I empathise with you and what you have experienced. My daughter vomited for 13 months, although due to chronic reflux. However, if we even tried to do any type of CC (which we didn't), she would vomit, through crying and being distressed at the thought of us leaving. So we started at 13 months to use the Tizze Hall (www.saveoursleep.com.au) suggestions for learning to sleep. I acknowledge that your child knows how to go to sleep, as they have done so up until now. HOwever, it's around this age that the 'separation' anxiety thing kicks in, and not until they are 18 months that they realise that an 'object' (mum or dad) reappears. In saying this, I've know got my daughter going to C/care one day a week. So far 4 weeks (meaning every wednesday) she has vomited at the sight of me leaving, through uncontrollable crying. My husband is convinced that she can make herself vomit (and so does Robin Barker - Mighty Toddler), for attention, and prolonging me staying.

Tizzie suggests that for the vomiter, that we change them, with minimal fuss and get them back to bed, so they know that it's sleep time, not play time, and that the vomiting wont work. We have put a waterproof mat protector, and two towels on top of that, with the top sheet. So when/if she vomits, it's as simple as removing one sheet and towel and replacing it wiht another towel and flat sheet.

One of us puts her to bed at night and we stay in her room until she has fallen asleep, otherwise she does go hysterical. We don't mind that we are there to encourage her to sleep, and she takes approx anywhere from 5 mins to half an hour to fall asleep. We don't rock her, pat her, or do anything except we do keep turning her away from us, and we only say 'go to sleep' in a soft voice, and the key for us is keeping our hand firmly on her shoulder or leg, so she knows it's not time for play.

Day sleeps, a bit tricky, because it depends on her initial wake up time.

If she wakes up at 6am she's bound to be ready for her first sleep by 10/10;/30asm, so that is with a bottle, and then in hte cot, and I do exactly what I do for her night sleep. She has dropped to one day sleep at 17 months (started at about 15 months)....and we're inbetween the 10.30 sleep to the stretch to 11.30 for lunch and down at 12.30 for her daysleep for up to two hours. After that it's play until din at 5/5.30. Bath at 6./6.30 and bottle at 6.45 and down for 7pm.


If I can help you with anything, or if it helps you to bounce things off of me, I'd be only too happy to help.