I cant do this anymore

[turtle23]

I am broken. DS is nearly 10 months, was sleeping through occasionally in the last few weeks, but his recurrent teething trouble is depleting me of any energy and I fear that I am becoming useless as a mother. We have been to a CO, we have done homeopathy, we have tried every gel and medicine known to man. Last night he woke every 20 minutes and only slept fitfully inbetween. His teeth take about 6 weeks from start to finish. The last two weeks they are purple and swollen. He bites everything including me(am still breastfeeding) and after another night like last night I dont know what to do. I dont feel safe to drive. I cant sleep even when he does as I am so stressed. DH is useless. I am beginning to think that I will have to give up BF and take a sleeping pill to have the energy to go on. Or worse...not give up BF and hope it knocks him out too. I cant keep this up. I have not had more than 4 hours in a row since he was born. Have no family around and no friends who will have him for the night. I am desperate.

What peggotty said. Just be mindful it is paracetemol based, so do not use calpol in conjunction, though you can use with Nurofen if it's really bad.

I sympathise Turtle - sisters DS goes hyper on the stuff - tis strange.

To PAMELAT - there is no reason at all to be scared of giving it to your DD.

Children from 3 MONTHS were having it until less than a year ago. It's all deeply

As usual I couldn't get to sleep til 845/9. DS woke at 1145, 100, 300, 400, 530, then 630 for the day. Scary that I'm viewing that as an improvement these days. It is defo teething. If you saw his mouth you'd be in no doubt!

Oh ok, so medised is not "bad" for infants, it was just being abused - a bit like calpol night?

I think I might start using it as it claims to ease breathing and my DD is full of cold and coughing all night too, poor mite.

turtle23 - you poor thing. Just read your update. What does he "want" when he wakes. It is quick to get him back to sleep?

Two of them he screamed for milk, the rest were just "I want a cuddle" and straight back to sleep.

It is true marmaduke and I didnt have any first hand experience until last weekend when my DD also cried from 10pm until 7am. I was very worried but apparently it was "just teething".

turtle, you seem to get more than your fair share of these nights I was terrible after just the one (and called the GP, NHS Direct etc).

You definately need day time sleep.

Do I dare say this out loud? He slept til 530 this morning. I did dose him up well, though, it has to be said... (please note that was calpol and nurofen, not valium!!)

If the medicine made him slept than at least it proves (like you thought) that he was waking with discomfort/pain.

hey, i saw the thread title and thought it might be you....

no real advice as mine arent sleeping,just gave ds some nurofen but i know he will be up at 10/11, 1/2, 4, 5.30, 6.30 but think he is teething so cant try and break the habit, i am so kneackered that dd gets into bed with me and i dont notice until i have two writhing masses either side and i cant recognise which is the baby and which is the toddler, oh and ds hasnt cut a single tooth yet!

good luck and hope that it is soon over

littleducks...argh. i hope things get better for you too....

that lost was supposed to be full of empathy, it may have become a bit of a whinge, in fact when i read it back i was very

how is your ds now?