My 16 month old son is waking up frequently middle of the month and crying for 15-20 minutes at a stretch. Sometimes we can calm him down but sometimes it gets very tough. Been happening over a 2 weeks or so. What should we do? He does drink milk once in the middle of the night.

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May be dreams or hunger or colic pain
there are number of reasons of excessive crying in children because it can be either due to some type of colic pain or digestion problem or due to some type of nasal blockage abdominal pain or any body pain so if it is not improving meet your doctor and for pain you can give one dosage of paracetamol.
if it appears to be colic pain you can give anti colic medicine and if it is due to nasal blockage you can give nasal saline drops.
many times changing the environment of the child helps as well as diverting the child helps

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It.  Maybe that your child is suffering with some NGHTMRE kind of an issue which is very common at this age for kids to have nightmares and which is why they get scared and they cry like how your child is crying so I believe that could possibly be one of the reasons behind that