He'd SO much rather eat, gurgle, wriggle like a demented piglet, be impressively sick, and then eat some more. He doesn't scream when sick, he's a very happy chap in general, so I'm not worried about reflux. It's more than he seems to hit EVERYTHING when he chucks, no matter how carefully I try with muslins!
He used to sleep 3 hours between feeds. At one dreamy point it was 4! Now it's 2 if I'm lucky, and last night the 2am and 4am feeds just ran into each other in a blur of misery. I woke DH at 4, gave him the baby and a dummy, and told him that I couldn't even look at DS until I'd closed my eyes for half an hour.
This is the 6th morning I've woken feeling like I absolutely cannot drag myself out of bed. As I work 3 days a week (and DH works every day) this is a problem. He's breastfed and I've thought longingly of the formula that's supposed to bloat him and make him sleep longer... but I know it probably wouldn't. Knowing my luck he'd drink a bottle down then want to suck at my breast just to nod off.
We use a sidecar cot, I yank him towards me, feed lying down, then ease him back to his own space when he's dropped off. it's worked perfectly for me until this last week, when he basically just didn't fall back to sleep! Now I'm beginning to worry that all my 'cry it out' friends are getting more sleep than me, damnit. I don't want to do any form of controlled crying - I don't really want to do sleep training - but he's sleeping like a newborn again and I can't nap during the day when I'm at work.
He's such a happy baby - almost never cries, all gurgles and kicking legs - and at 4am last night I thought: I need a break from this baby, I hate that I can't have one good night's sleep away from him... and now I feel very guilty for basically wishing I wasn't a mum.
Help! I don't know what help I want, but please tell me that it will pass, I don't need to switch to FF and She Who Must Not Be Named so I can get a decent 3-4 hours' straight sleep before Christmas!