DS2 is nine months next week. He's never been a great sleeper, still waking a couple of times a night for feeding, and that's fine. He's a baby, I know plenty don't sleep, I'm not expecting miracles.
BUT... for the past week he's been going down at 7.30pm, waking for a feed about 11pm and then from midnight til 3am, all hell breaks loose. He screams in his cot, if he's picked up, if we stroke him. The only thing to settle him is a boob, even though he doesn't drink much. And then he wakes up yelling as soon as it's removed.
If we don't give him a boob, he screams blue murder. It actually seems like he's on something, buzzing is the word that comes to mind, manic. Last night DH sat doing PUPD, stroking him and shushing him for an hour in his cot and he still screamed til I got my boobs out. Once he was calm he crawled around our bed like a tranquilised bear before eventually collapsing in a stupor at 3am.
He can settle himself although is generally fed to sleep. He naps pretty well in the day, if we're in he'll do an hour and 45 minutes in his cot but i can't do this in the afternoons because of the school run. I try not to let him sleep past 4pm.
We have a consistent bedtime routine and he goes down fine. We're weaning and on three meals a day with breastfeeding on top.
He started crawling at the weekend, which I know affects sleep, but I thought once he'd mastered it he'd settle down. Still no teeth but has had all the signs for ages now.
Anyone have any words of wisdom? I feel sick with exhaustion, DH is brilliant but even when he gets up with him I can't sleep through the screaming. I know the boob addiction is probably part of the problem but he just won't settle without it.
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What the fuck is wrong with my baby?
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SheilaTakeABow · 26/02/2016 09:51
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