This probably belongs a bit in feeding/sleeping/behaviour...but any help welcome please as getting to end of tether.
My DS is 13 weeks, and until recently was generally a lovely baby - easy to sleep, feeding and growing well. But in the last week, he's just turning in to a nightmare in the afternoons and today we had pretty much a solid hour of full on screaming between 5 and 6pm.
He's fine first thing in the morning - all lovely and smiley, and last thing at night when we do cuddles with daddy (who of course never gets the screaming...) and a dreamfeed - and while he's still waking a couple of times a night, he feeds well and quickly and goes straight back to sleep.
However, during the afternoon he'll scream because he's hungry, feed like mad, scream because he's got wind, throw up most of what he's eaten, scream again. Scream because he's tired. Scream at me for trying to help... etc etc. He doesn't really do whinging, it's straight in to red face, full volume howl. At one point today I was just sitting there saying 'breathe, breathe...' as he was on a constant in-breath - body must be about 90% lungs.
At the moment he's not having a great nap at lunchtime - he used to be able to sleep from 11.30 ish through to 2, but at the moment is crashing out around 11.30-midday, but waking half an hour/45 mins later wanting to feed. Then not going back to sleep or sleeping fitfully. I'm letting him sleep whenever, but it doesn't seem to be enough.
Is it just that he's overtired in the afternoon, but surely that wouldn't make him sick? And if so, how on earth do I get him to sleep properly at lunchtime (he won't even sleep reliably in sling/car/pram)
I had a D&V bug a week or so ago, could he have suffered from that (hence sick?), but then surely he'd be ill all the time not just in the afternoon?
Is it a developmental/growth spurt thing? If so, PLEASE tell me it'll be over quickly... I thought things were supposed to get better at 12 weeks not so much worse!
Any ideas?