Well, another utterly crap 2 nights here. I couldn't post last night as internet was down at my parents (due to some software dh had fiddled with during the day) and needed us to go into the room where ds was asleep to fix it. He slept for 40 mins and was then awake for about 45, taking a huge feed, which I figured would last him a good few hours, but no, it lasted a whole two. And he was then up between every 10 mins and an hour. At 5am he decided that that was it for the night, and we were then up until about 6:45, when he then went back to sleep for an hour and 10 mins. Today he's dozed on an off a fair bit in the car and pushchair, but hadn't napped for 3.5-4 hrs before bedtime, and consequently got hysterical with tiredness and wouldn't calm down to feed. Eventually settled him on my lap downstairs, and tried to feed him when he stirred a bit half an hour later. Have just put him upstairs, but suspect not for too long, as he's not fed enough to last.
He now has another cold just to make life even harder, as he struggles to breathe when feeding, so comes off spluttering and upset. Have put a karvol vaporisor in the room to try and help, and also given medised (I know that the age limit for this has changed, but as I understand it it's only because some people were too stupid not to combine it with other paracetamol ).
The odd thing that I find is that ds seems to take a lot of good feeds in the night, and I can't really understand why they aren't filling him up for longer. I know that my milk will be enough for him until 6 months, but I don't really want to be feeding almost every hour night and day in order to achieve this! He's piling on the weight too (was 17lb 3oz at last weigh in at 17.5wks), so is clearly getting plenty!
Well done on finding the light at the end of the tunnel averagemum. How old is your ds now, and how long have you been having badly disturbed nights for now?
Anglepoise - if you're a terrible mother than so am I. (and I'm not btw )
Leonie - your dd2 actually sounds a lot like my dd was in many ways. She was a nightmare baby, and also nearly became an only child because of it (dh was set on not having any more, but I persuaded him otherwise once he could start to see that things would improve one day). Am I remembering correctly that you are dairy free, or am I muddling you with someone else? My dd calmed down quite a bit when I gave it up at 16 weeks, when we finally realised that she was intolerant to it! Irritability is a common symptom, and dd would scream all the bloody time presumably (with hindsight) because she was having stomach cramps. My dd didn't refuse feeds when out (in fact she fed pretty much constantly day and night, as oddly the cause of the problem (my milk) also provided some temporary relief ) but refusal can be common in intolerant children (hence failure to thrive is often a symptom).