I have a 4 and half mouth old boy who up until 2 weeks ago was only waking once in the night and would stay in his next to me bed. Now he is fighting his day naps, when he goes down for bedtime at 7:00/8:00pm he is asleep for at least 1 hour before he is unsettled and then it continues every hour until he wakes up between 7:00-8:00am. Sometimes he needs resettling with dummy or a cuddle and sometimes he will feed. I combi fed and throughout the night and morning i breastfeed. He has been dribbling loads and chewing on his hands and fists so im unsure if this is causing him discomfort, he also had some jabs this week which might not be helping.
I do my best to transfer him back into his own bed throughout the night but I find myself at 4:00am after waking multiple times I will co sleep with him safely in my bed. He sleeps for longer when that happens. I’m trying to do my best but I’m feeling exhausted and I don’t want to co sleep with him as I want him to feel safe in his own bed. I am also worried about his feeding pattern, he was so good and feeding and drinking bottles of expressed and formula milk. Now although he feeds of me early hours of the morning which I can’t monitor, he only drinks 3 ounces of his morning bottle. He then might take another 2/3 ounces later on and that continues throughout the day. If he refuses the bottle I offer breast and sometimes he wants that instead but again I’m not sure if this is comfort. He is still a happy engaging boy and very alert. He does plenty of wet nappies so I could be worrying over nothing but any advice or mums going through the same thing that want to reach out would be amazing ?