We are now in Week 6 of Teething Hell. Prior to this, DD was sleeping 12 hours a night and I'm terrified of destroying her good sleep habits. However, when she's up and in pain several times a night, sometimes for up to 3 hours at a time (in spite of all the pain relief I can offer her), one's resolve does go out of the window. I've been regularly putting her in our bed when desperate, but even that doesn't always work. Occasionally I've breastfed her after an hour or two, and am now tempted to just start doing that as soon as she wakes. Last night, for example, she was up screaming pretty much all evening from about 8-12; at 12.30 I fed her and she slept in our bed for the rest of the night.
The thing is, for various important reasons (trust me on this!), I need to give up breastfeeding this month. DD hasn't had night feeds for months (and also eats incredibly well during the day) so these comfort feeds seem like a really backward step which will interfere with phasing out breastfeeding and set up new, bad sleep habits.
But how do I survive otherwise? I can't do the hours on end of walking round the bedroom cuddling a screaming baby any more - either she or I am going to end up thrown out of the window!