Seriously though; tether end approaching. DS is 4.5 months old and has always been an erratic sleeper at best. He's in a Snuzpod next to our bed. He went to sleep tonight at 9pm. When he started to stir I spent an hour (11.45-12.45) replacing his dummy, stroking his hand and cheek, sshing...he kept leg-thumping (this has only started up again the last week or so) and flailing his hands around his face, and eventually worked himself up and started crying- eyes still closed so not really awake- so I picked him up and tried rocking, bouncing, ssshing, patting...all the things you're supposed to do...he started just screaming louder and louder and clawing at my face, getting more and more worked up. In the end I stuck a bottle in his gob cos it's the only thing which shuts him up. Why the hell can't I comfort my own child!? This is happening more and more often. I know I need to stop relying on feeding him to settle but what else can I do? The alternative is just to leave him screaming for an indefinite period! He was sleeping SO WELL a week ago- 9-3am then 4-7/8am. Now he wakes around midnight, again at 3.30 (can usually settle) then 4/5am (needs feed) but the intervening hours are a cacophony of leg thumping- he bangs his feet down SO HARD it makes the entire bed shake- and face clawing, which makes keeping a dummy in, and my getting any sleep, virtually impossible. I just can't rock/cuddle/sssh him in the night. He just screams and screams until he's fed. How can I break this cycle??