Despite endless chants of 'this too shall pass', the time has come for me to beg fellow MNetters for some advice and wisdom.
19 w/o ff DS has never been a great sleeper. We have a good bedtime routine which works - 6.30 bath, 7.00 up to bed in a dark room, feed, sleep. So far, so successful. He sleeps until around 10.30, and then wakes again every 3 hours demanding food. Initially he would feed and then go straight back down, which was pretty managable, even if he ended up in our bed (he seems to settle much better in with us.)
However, in the past few weeks the heady combination of teething (and the associated dirty nappies) and learning to roll over have turned it all on its head. He very often needs changing in the night which leads to an hour or more of being wide awake and fancying a chat. He rolls himself over to his front and gets a bit stuck, or propels himself around his cot despite being in a sleeping bag. We also have the new trick of waking at 4 needing to poo, whinging, then producing a huge dirty nappy.
We have tried offering a dummy and water instead of feeding every three hours but that has had no success thus far. For now, the feeding isn't as much of a problem as the staying wide awake for hours afterwards!
So, my wise sleep deprived colleagues, any ideas? Should I just put it down to teething and ride it out, or is there some magic out there that I can try?