From about 7-8 weeks, DS was a great sleeper - massive evening cluster feeder, sleeping through the night and by 3 months was doing a 12 hour stretch every night very much instigated by him, no sleep training or CC. Around 7 months, teething started with a vengeance and he was waking in the night every 2-3 hours and I was largely BF'ing him to comfort him/get back to sleep. Two months and 4 teeth later, he's still waking every 3-4 hours and I'm beginning to wonder if we'll ever get back to the hallowed sleeping through ground and am after any advice as to how I can best remove the rod I've inserted in my back.
He's EBF (every 3-4 hours during the day) and we're doing BLW - he's getting better as it, but as with his milk feeds, he seems to take the minimum required to get him to the next feed. He goes down about 7:30pm, wakes at around 11pm, then again sometime between 2 and 4am, sometimes twice, and then is up about 7:00am, give or take. During the night, he wakes, feeds in about 10mins and is back asleep, so it's not like I'm up for hours rocking him back to sleep and I know in many respects it's not that bad. But he teased us in the early days with his angelic sleeping and as he's BF, it's all on me and I'm just wondering if there's anything I should try/be doing to get us back to those blissful long sleeps...even just a 6 hour stint! I've tried putting the monitor music on during the night and seeing if he'll re-settle, but he doesn't. He's very busy crawling, standing and cruising around. He seems genuinely hungry at the 3am feed though not massively so at the 11pm one and doesn't seem to want to cluster feed in the evenings as he used to. Is it sleep regression? Have I just made it worse by feeding him, so now he expects it? Can I change that? Any help much appreciated.