My one year old has always been an exalent sleeper! Easy to put to bed and he sleeps through the night. For the last week however, he has been waking around 5am crying. Last night was the worst though. I changed his diaper, gave him a bottle, sang to him, scratched his back, rocked him, and snuggled him for about an hour and I just could not get him to stop crying and go back to bed. This is so unlike him and I can't figure out why this is happening all of a sudden.

He is not teething, wasn't running a fever, his ears don't seem to be bothering him, no history of reflux.

Anyone else have a similar experience? Did it stop on it's own? Did anything help? Should I bring him in to his doctor?

I don't know what to do. It breaks my heart when I can't fix what's wrong for him.