Hi have three kids (9 yrs, 2 in nov and 3 in oct) and I was really worried about how I'd pick them up etc. I asked my consultant and he said that I could pick them up immediately as normal becuase the surgery is keyhole and doesn't cut through muscle.
As for sleep, and I'm not suggesting you drug your child, but do you remember calpol night? Well it used to be from 3 months then 2 years then they stopped selling it.
When my youngest was about six months I went to buy some Calpol Night and pharmacist explained that it had been withdrawn becuase some mothers in America had overdosed their children. Apparently they thought you could use full dosage of calpol during day and then full days dosage of calpol night during the night and overdosed babies on parcetamol.
You would think that its obvious that anyone is only allowed a certain amount of paracetamol during any 24 hour period but perhaps not!
Anyway the pharmasist explained that Calcold (age 6+) is actually exactly the same as Calpol night. She looked in her book and showed me the ingredients. She said she gives it to her baby (who was younger than mine).
As I still had an empty box of Calpol Night from 3 months at home (so I could remember dosage when they changed it to 2+) I purchased some Calcold and took it home.
Checked it out, it was exactly the same as my 3 month plus box and I called Calpol who said they couldn't advise me to give it to her but confirmed it hadn't changed its recipe adn the reason for upping the age limit was to confirm with EU.
Anyway, long story short, I have given my kids Calcold since before the age of 6 months, its great when they are poorly and has added effect of knocking them out.
If he's teething, and that might be why he's started waking up I would suggest trying it at bed time as it helped with mine.
Good luck x
