My almost seven month old has started waking MUCH more at night - he used to wake once or twice (usually always for a feed), but it has become every 2-3 hours and last night it was every 90 mins after I put him back down in his cot. He is grizzly almost ALL day as well and generally only happy if being carried around.
He had previously started napping well during the day but is now waking up crying after one sleep cycle, sometimes earlier. He has been shoving his fingers in his mouth and drooling a bit and I have felt inside his mouth and can feel the outline of a molar (no other teeth have come through yet). He seems to be much less interested in feeding too - he is breastfeed with one taste of solids at lunch time which I introduced a few weeks ago (he's not showing a huge interest in solids though).
In the past few days when he wakes at night if I put him on the breast he will pretty much fall straight back to sleep. Sometimes i have put him back in his cot and he has started to cry again, but I have put my hand on his chest and he has drifted back to sleep. He is not even really nursing at night now which is unusual for him - he will occasionally get a let down from the pacifying but it's not like he is actively working for a drink. This made me worry I had a supply issue and he was falling back asleep because I didn't have any milk, so I have been pumping and taking fenugreek etc and while my supply seems lower than usual (probably from the reduced feeding) I am getting milk out with the pump.
I was just wondering in other mother's experiences, if he was waking from teething pain at night, would he drift back off to sleep straight away? Or would he be hard to console?
Yesterday he woke up crying after 30 minutes of napping during the day and I took him into my bed and let him sleep with me (I let him sleep on the boob which I don't usually do but I was exhausted) and he slept for two hours. This made me wonder if it is a sleep association. However up until now at night when he has woken up, he has grizzled a little and put himself back to sleep unless he needed a feed. I usually always put him down awake for day naps, but have always nursed him to sleep at night.
I am exhausted and almost in tears from lack of sleep. I can't catch up on rest during the day because he won't nap for long.