DS2 is 6.5 months and until recently had been sleeping through - I'd even dropped the dream feed and he'd been doing 6.45pm - 5.45/6am which was fab. About a week ago he caught a cold which affected his tummy so I had a couple of incidents of projectile vomiting which obviously affected his feeding. It's taken me a week to get back on track, although he is fussier about his solids than he was before and it's a major effort. The biggest problem is that he wakes up screaming blue murder at 10/11pm, so I feed him and he goes back off OK, but then he wakes up at about 3.30am going ballistic. If i feed him, he'll glug it like a starving man, but then the second i put him in the cot he goes wild again. If I cuddle him, he's straight off to sleep but the second i put him down that's it. He will go back to sleep if i put him in his pram - i don't even have to rock him, it just seems that he doesn't want to be in the cot. Part of me thinks that he is angling after getting in bed with us (I let him sleep with us a couple of times when he was ill and he clearly loved it) but can a 6 month old be that devious??! My DP & I don't want to co-sleep, we can't relax knowing baby is in the bed, plus we both spent the nights he was with us with our bums hanging out of the bed while DS2 slept like a starfish. I woke up with a start every 20 minutes convinced I had smothered him. I just can't understand what this issue is with the cot...he naps in there during the day with no problem.
I don't have an issue with controlled crying, but I'm afraid that he'll wake DS1 who is 2 so I've just been going in there and feeding him which is probably a mistake. I work from home and I can't get anything done as I'm on my knees with tiredness. Any pearls of wisdom - thanks