Ds's sleep has been deteriorating badly over the last couple of months. Early September, he settled down to 1-2 feeds a night, and even once slept through the night!
The last 2-3 weeks though he has been waking up more frequently and being very unsettled and umhappy - last few nights he has been waking up 3-4 times. Most times he just feeds then goes straight back down in his cot, but some of the feeds are very short.
He has been teething, he has cut 7 teeth since middle of September, but I don't think it is all teething. These last couple of nights bedtime has become a battle, it is taking an hour to settle him to sleep, when it only used to take us about 15 minutes - I would feed him, then (if he was around) DH would put him to bed.
Tonight he has just screamed, would root like mad, but barely latch on before pulling off screaming. He had anubesol, Nelson's Teetha and finally calpol and still the same. Kept spitting his dummy out to. I did notice that when we gave him the calpol, he sucked madly on the syringe. So I ran downstairs, quickly rinsed off a bottle I had gathering dust on top of the kitchen cupboard and gave him some water. He guzzled it!
Am now thinking that he was thirsty and BM just wasn't cutting it! He is eating plenty of solids and we've been offering him water at meal times as do his carers at nursery. He did have a good feed when I picked him up at nursery but ever since we got home, he has beem doing the whole rooting/latching on and off thing
Is this normal? Should I now be offering water between breastfeeds and meals?
Hope this makes some kind of sense and someone can offer advice. I'm worried that this could end our BFing relationship, I was wanting to continue until he self weaned, but I think 11mo is a bit young to self wean!!