My little boy for the past few weeks has woken up and started screaming. He’s always woken up every hour but he’d cry or wimper and I’d be able to lie him back down and he’d go back to sleep. Now he sits straight up and when I go to lay him back down he goes into full “scream at the top of my lungs so the whole street can hear and I can work myself up because I can scream bloody murder” mode. It’s honestly so stressful and I get really upset because I can’t calm him down. I’m also exhausted because he’s woken up every hour for months. Yeh last few days he’s had a temperature and been unwell which meant when he woke at night I got a break from the banshee screams.
He has a dummy but he throws it out of anger.
He’s really pushing me to my limit now. I took him out for a lovely walk in the woods yesterday (well he was in his pushchair) but he screamed murder all the way back to the car because he was tired but he just won’t sleep.
I’m getting slightly concerned now, we’ve had the health visitor come out and try and help us with his sleep she couldn’t help so she referred us to the community nursery nurse and after 6 weeks she referred us back to the health visitor (we have a new one now and she has no clue) now I know babies wake up and if he’s not ready to sleep through then he’s not ready but this new screaming is really tough, I go to work so I need to get some kind of rest some how. I worry about the neighbours because I know he wakes them up.
I also worry because he’s so tired all the time. He doesn’t get a decent amount of sleep ever either.
I’m going to be having a Britney Spears type breakdown soon