I started this thread a few weeks ago Here and things have not improved...
He's six months next week and he still spends a large chunk of the day being very grumpy and / or crying. It's almost impossible to put him down for any length of time without him bawling his head off. But then even holding him all the time doesn't help either, unless he's being bounced on your knee (which you can on'y do for so long!)
We still have to take him out for his daytime naps, and he's having about two naps a day now. One early in the morning and then another mid afternoon. For the last few weeks he's started to reliably go to bed around 7 (but not for the last few days, argh). We've discovered if he falls asleep after about 3.30 in the afternoon then he will not go to bed without a big fight even though he is definitely tired by 7pm. This has caused problems for the last few days as we've had to go out in the car / pram where he has fallen asleep, cue HUGE upset come early evening and us giving in and getting him off to sleep in his pram in the hallway (where he now is still...).
His night time sleep has improved and he's waking less (touch wood!!!).
We're going to start weaning this week (and I am SICK of the comments from family about how he needs food blah blah blah) but I don't thik that'll make any difference, I firmly believe he gets all he needs from milk at the moment (he's ebf), he hasn't upped his feeds or anything and is waking less for feeds at night.
He's been trying to crawl for a while, bless him, and rolls around the floor like a crazed thing, often getting jammed under / next to things. Today he seems to have "got" that he needs to use his arms as well as his legs and can now shuffle himself forward quite well but it's a lot of effort and I know he is getting frustrated.
We've been to a few groups to get a change of scenery but he was grumpy there too....
No sign of any teeth yet but lots of dribbles and chewing etc.
He will stay happy for little bit longer if we sit him in the high chair, but it doesn't give us that much extra time. Thankfully DH is around to share the load but it's really really starting to get me down now (I have PND too so it adds to it).
We also have the added problem of getting him to take a bottle. We started about a month ago so I could start to have some time off. He had begun to take one bottle a day of ebm from DH but the last few days this has been refused too, so I can't go anywhere for very long either.
Sorry this is long, but I needed a bit of a moan I'm afraid! And if anyone has any ideas, please let me know! 