Would really appreciate some advice regarding my 5 week old. He is breastfed and seems to need a boob constantly in his mouth to stay asleep. He will fall asleep feeding, fall off the boob, seem to be deeply asleep but then wake after 10 minutes and frantically roots around and cries until he gets the boob back again. No amount of cuddling or rocking him at that stage will get him back to sleep. He isn't doing it because he is hungry either. He has a really good feed before he falls asleep. So much so that he often gets stressed when trying to feed back to sleep because he is clearlyfull to bursting but keeps suckling because he is tired.
I know lots of people will tell me that he is only 5 weeks old and that it will pass and just to give him what he needs for now but I am really struggling. It often takes me 2 hours to get him back to sleep at night, after 5 failed attempts at putting him down and him waking again wanting the boob. And I have a 4 year old that I feel like I am constantly neglecting because I am constantly pinned under a feeding baby. Doing the school run is a nightmare as it is a similar situation. Baby will fall asleep in the pushchair on the way to school but if anything disturbs him whilst we are out- loud noise, wind etc, he will wake and again starts frantically crying and wanting a boob which is not very practical when walking home from school along a busy road. We had horrendous tears on the way home the other day - both from mum and baby!
I have tried a dummy- he won't take it. I have tried to feed until drowsy and then take him off and soothe him repeatedly but he just became so irate after a few attempts at this that I gave up.
Do I keep trying to gently train him to fall asleep without a boob in his mouth (And if so how?? I have failed miserably) or do I just keep letting him have it whenever he wants and hope that he grows out of it by himself?
Advice would be greatly appreciated!