My 24 week old ds has started waking more and more in the past 2 weeks. Has been put to bed at 7 since one month old, often shh'd to sleep but not fed to sleep. Since 3 months has woken 2-3 times and for a while (4/5 months) could be settled back to sleep without milk if woke before 12am or so. Couple of weeks ago stopped being settleable without being fed (he is bf) and the wake ups got earlier and earlier, 9.15pm being the earliest (woke 7.45 the following night and dh managed to settle him back but it took 30 mins). Hasn't been settled without milk since. When he wakes early in the evening he then wakes between 1.5 and 3 hours later all night. Fed 5 times last night. Also last night wouldn't settle after feed so I left him crying for a while.
Started giving solids on Tuesday, when he was 24 weeks, thinking he must be hungry and he had 2 ice cubes of sweet potato and 2 of apple last night. He was also weighed yesterday and had dropped a few centiles (from under 9th to under 2nd, but born on 9th at 37 weeks), so feeding him did seem right thing. Had 2.5 hour sleeps on tue and wed am but is now waking after 30 mins (as I write). I felt we'd tried to do everyting right yet it's still all going wrong. Please help