Okay so I'm probably just after some encouraging words to stop myself from slipping into madness, but...
So last week (after having a pretty successful night time routine) I noticed that he was clusterfeeding a lot longer than usual to get to sleep - and this continued way into the night, so I just assumed another growth spurt/feeding frenzy was due. Lay down, latched him on and coslept for a few nights, and just fed continuously through the day as he wanted it. 9 days later, it still hasn't stopped and has seemingly got 'worse'. He will 'go down' for about 3 hours 12am-3am, but won't go back to sleep after this - makes extremely loud grunting/squirming noises and wakes himself fully up within an hour - and the crying unless latched at ALL times continues all through the day - poor thing is so exhausted his eyes are bright red. His poo's seem to be changing too - they're a lot more smelly (tmi?) and seem to be reducing in volume - except one very large one usually around 5am? He's so fraught and upset when he slips off the boob and when he gets back on he will kick/scratch/fuss (ouch). I'm very passionate about bf and very much want to carry on, and get that it's a supply & demand situation, but acting like this for this long? Kind of starting to get concerned! He's literally only feeding/napping on the breast/crying so no chatting/play/tummy time can occur - surely this is bad for his mental development? And it's not like we can leave the house (or bedroom, for that matter. Remind me again what a shower is?!) - because he just screams unless he's 'plugged into the mothership' - to visit the HV. Any advice would be great! -I don't supplement with formula (and don't want to), don't use dummies and don't particularly want to cosleep (I was very much anti cosleeping until the first frenzy hit 😂)-