My EBF DS 2 (who is 4 and a half months) used to be a champion sleeper but I think I'm not getting punished for being smug at the start. In the last few weeks he hasn't slept for more than 2 hours in a row and wakes probably 5 or 6 times in the night. It's impossible to settle him without breastfeeding, and even though I know I shouldn't feed him to sleep it's so hard to do anything else in the middle of the night.
I know he's not waking because he's hungry, but he wants to suck for comfort and gets absolutely distraught if I try to return him to his cot before he's properly asleep. I know he's capable of settling himself to sleep, but I just don't understand why he's so resistant to it or what I can do to help him settle himself. I really don't want to leave him to cry but rapidly feel like I'm running out of options - it's not fair on either of my boys for me to be this tired during the day.
Does anyone have any advice - anything - that might help? I'm madly sleep deprived and not thinking straight. I just don't know what's gone wrong with his sleeping.