so tired and so lonely..little waking every hour!!

[Chlobee]

Hi,
My first post and I hope you can help. I have resisted posting because I expect to hear 'its just a phase' and I get that from my husband and it just makes things worse.
My son is almost 6.5 months old. He is currently waking every 1-2 hours during the night and has been for over over a week..I've lost track of how long tbh.
I don't know where to start...
I cut out dairy months ago (I do slip as I find it very difficult) as advised by hv because of ezema and he cried non stop some days. He was such a happy baby after that. (Exculsively breastfed btw)
However, he has always had trouble with wind. He's always been difficult to burp and currently doesn't fart (he used to).
Because of wind he can't self settle so is fed to sleep.
We started weaning at 5.5 months and for a week or so was great then started to refuse everything.. hv said maybe because of his cold at the time or teething. Cold went, 2 teeth came.. He would have a few spoons one day then none for a few.. But he started to sleep for between 3-5hrs at night. We tried finger foods at 6 months as he started to refuse anything from a spoon and he was interested and happy to taste anything but didn't really eat anything.
We kept offering puree alongside and he would take the odd spoonful.
Suddenly things got really bad at night and the last few days his daytime naps have been affected too.
I feed him to sleep but once he's asleep no wind will come out so I have to put him to bed. He may wake up in 10 mins or an hour screaming with wind. I get him up, he burps and goes back to sleep. But then he wakes an hour later, not screaming but fussing so I have pick him up and he will fall asleep in my arms so I put him back. Every 2-3 hours he will want a feed.
I'm so tired and resent my husband who sleeps through it all.

He has had trouble pooping the last few days too, obviously needs to but seems to find it uncomfortable and they have been green/stringy on occassion.
I assume he is just under the weather but we both really need decent sleep. His morning nap is fine and will sleep for an hour or 2 but his other naps he has become fussy and won't settle or dozes and feeds..if I try to unlatch he cries and wants it back but he can be there for an hour!

I don't know if I am making sense anymore I just need sleep and want my happy baby back. He's either tired, fussy or whiney for the most part these days. I cry at least once a day and feel so lonely because my husband works all day and I let him sleep all night.
If any of that makes sense can anyone help?

I feel for you. I could have written this post - little one same age, waking every hour at night (and having to be fed to sleep each time). I don't have a lot of advice, as we're still in the middle of it, but it does seem to have eased up a bit - he just slept for 4 hours in a row tonight. Have you tried co-sleeping? I've had to resort to it as I was going to fall asleep holding him, so it was safer for him if we both lay down.

Sending you big hugs.

Yes, I can help. Going to post this so you know I am writing something else. In the meantime ... Bf.

OK, he's 6mo so infacol is a possibility but not really the problem.
He doesn't like his bed. Or the way you put him down. All these things change so quickly for a little one- the main thing is to find a way that makes him feel secure.

It's a phase - yes and no, not really. Babies don't have bedtime phases... They change what they like. Doesn't make it a phase... They Just decide they like a smell, or a duvet. Find out what that is, and you have it sewn up. For a while!

A small amount of orange juice can help poos become more easy to pass. Old mother's tip.

Have you tried cutting out onions. My sister did and her ebf son was transformed.

Onions..really? I've always eaten a lot of onions in things, it wouldn't suddenly start affecting him surely? I had to cut out cabbage when he was tiny because it made him gassy.

He has been back on infacol for about a week. We used it religiously until he was about 4 months when his wind problems settled. They started on and off again at 5 months.

I'll try the orange juice

If I am so tired I feel like I could doze off feeding him he does come into our bed but I can't sleep with him there, too worried hubby will roll onto him or something...and if little one is sleeping peacefully he tends to sprawl out and steal all the bed!

If his poos are green and mucousy, he's intolerant to something in your diet.
You probably need to cut out soya and go totally dairy free.

if he seemed a bit better when you cut out dairy, is it not worth following that through? If he does have an allergy you need to be meticulous (my ebf baby once reacted to cream powder in some low fat mayo i ate) and probably cut out soya too, and stick at it, it can take 6 weeks to leave your systems. If you do decide that makes a difference btw, you should ask to be referred to a dietitian to make sure youre both getting enough calcium, fats, etc. a major symptom for my ds was wind, but this is a good website
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