DS is 2 next month and we still often have at least one or two night wakings, he wont go back to sleep without his "BUP"-screams and cries for hours and wont resettle no matter what we do. No amount of shushing, patting, CIO, CC, co sleeping, signing rocking seems to work.
He goes to sleep with a bottle but is quite often awake after he finishes it, I hear him chuntering away so I know he can self settle.
The CM manages to get him off for naptime by leaving him in a pushchair and rocking him a bit (about 5 mins) but this doesn't seem to work for me 2 hours I rocked him one day, one bottle later he was asleep within minutes.
The bottle is now affecting his appetite in the day, i'm worried about his teeth, the broken nights are doing my head in after this long and he's now started asking for another one before he goes to sleep so he needs nappy changes once or twice a night or he wakes soaked through.
I have swapped the bottle for water, I have reduced the amount over time. I have tried to go cold turkey but the anguish and exhaustion was just too much for everyone.
Advice please?