DD is just about 6 months old. She has all the signs that she is teething, flushed cheeks, dribbling and chewing everything etc and she has not slept for longer than about 2hrs at a time overnight at all this wk and will not settle without breastfeed. last night was 7-8 times. And by 4am I am not able to get back to sleep having been up and down so much. previous was waking once or twice fro short feeds around midnight and 4am
She barely sleeps in the day, lucky if she gets an hour most days (yesterday slept about 10min all day despite trying feeds in quiet dim rooms, walking in pram etc, when she did fall asleep the phone rang and woke her) but I used to think at least the nights ok. We are both tired and she's grumpy and clingy, mostly crying when not being fed or held andwalked around all day but I can't carry her for long as she is too heavy for my back now.
What can I do? She has had cal pol teething gel and powders to no result. I can't keep up this feeding all night anymore. She will not take a bottle of formula from me or DH even though she's had it from my mom before and I don't get great results expressing unless I have missed a feed. I really want to give her to my mom for a night so I can grt a decent sleep but my mom is worried she won't take the formula from her either now.
Very long post but getting desperate for sleep for both of us - finding it hard to cope with the daytime with such bad nights.