DS2 is nine months next week. He's never been a great sleeper, still waking a couple of times a night for feeding, and that's fine. He's a baby, I know plenty don't sleep, I'm not expecting miracles.
BUT... for the past week he's been going down at 7.30pm, waking for a feed about 11pm and then from midnight til 3am, all hell breaks loose. He screams in his cot, if he's picked up, if we stroke him. The only thing to settle him is a boob, even though he doesn't drink much. And then he wakes up yelling as soon as it's removed.
If we don't give him a boob, he screams blue murder. It actually seems like he's on something, buzzing is the word that comes to mind, manic. Last night DH sat doing PUPD, stroking him and shushing him for an hour in his cot and he still screamed til I got my boobs out. Once he was calm he crawled around our bed like a tranquilised bear before eventually collapsing in a stupor at 3am.
He can settle himself although is generally fed to sleep. He naps pretty well in the day, if we're in he'll do an hour and 45 minutes in his cot but i can't do this in the afternoons because of the school run. I try not to let him sleep past 4pm.
We have a consistent bedtime routine and he goes down fine. We're weaning and on three meals a day with breastfeeding on top.
He started crawling at the weekend, which I know affects sleep, but I thought once he'd mastered it he'd settle down. Still no teeth but has had all the signs for ages now.
Anyone have any words of wisdom? I feel sick with exhaustion, DH is brilliant but even when he gets up with him I can't sleep through the screaming. I know the boob addiction is probably part of the problem but he just won't settle without it.
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SheilaTakeABow · 26/02/2016 09:51
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I suspect it might be teeth. I've read somewhere that when they're in pain there is higher levels of adrenaline in their system which will disrupt sleep. The sucking motion of breastfeeding can relieve teething pain too.
We've been having a similar time since just after christmas as 5 teeth have come through in that time with more on the way plus a constant cold with an ear infection just for good measure 
By chance this week, he had his tea early at 4pm and then was asleep by 6.30. I woke him up at 11.30 as my boobs were lumpy and hard, then he slept through until 6am!!!!
I think he was going to bed too late, too close to his tea and I was giving him too much. Whether it's a fluke or because he's still ill, I don't know. But three nights so far touch wood
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Thanks everyone. You're all right, the feeding is the main problem I feel and I'm happy, keen even, to stop night feeds, but DS has other ideas. He will literally scream until he gets it - an hour last night, and I'm so worried about disturbing DS1. And then even when he gets what he wants he still carries on like he's had five espressos.
Hmm, all we can do is keep trying I suppose. DS1 slept through by four, so only a few more years 
Mine did that until I stopped bf. Every two hours or would go ballistic until he got what he wanted. As soon as he realised the milk tap had been turned off, he slept through. Two days after I went cold turkey. He was about 10.5 mos. I'm sure that ascribing intent and deliberate manipulation to get what you want to a 10 mo is bonkers, but that's what it felt like lol. In any case, once he realised that I had no intention of feeding him again he didn't bother to wake up and try it on...
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