Sorry! this is long!!!
My DS is a little over 4 months old. He was diagnosed with reflux around 6 weeks, but it has been under control with omeprazole for the last couple of months. He is mostly breast fed. I worked FT, so he gets 3 bottles 5 days a week, and sometimes I have to supplement with a little formula if I don't pump enough. For the last month or so, he's been sleeping in his car seat. It started when he had a cold to help him breathe better, and he started (finally) sleeping better, so we kept going with it. Before he started sleeping better in the car seat, he would wake every 2.5-3 hours, almost like clockwork. When he started sleeping in the car seat, he was going from BT till 2, then 3, and then many nights where he didn't wake until 4am! It was wonderful. I would feed him at that NW and we were back off to sleep.
About 10 days ago, he started waking up more and more. I could settle him back to sleep very quickly with a paci except when I fed him around 2 or 3. His sleep for those last 10 days has been really unsettled. He's squirming a lot and kicking a lot. He's passing some gas, and then he poops first thing every morning. He cries very little at night.
A couple of nights ago, he squirmed and wiggled his way right out of the car seat and on to the floor - so that's no longer a good idea.
Last night, we put him in the bassinett so he can safely squirm around, and he was up every.single.hour, and worse, he was crying every hour. That much crying is not like him. We gave him Tylenol before bed, and then Ibuprofen at 10:30 when he woke. He's been knawing on his hands since about 3 months, and he was drooling a lot yesterday. We thought he might be uncomfortable from teething (although no sign yet of teeth), but it clearly didn't help.
We've also had some feeding issues lately. He is on and off the breast A LOT. Like he'll nurse for literally seconds, move his head, repeat. It gets a little better in a quiet room, and he nurses fine when he is sleepy (MOTN or first thing in the morning). Because of this, I tried giving him a bottle a couple of times this past week, including one with formula before bed - it made no difference in his sleep or gas. Moved him to eating every 3.5-4 hrs yesterday, which helped the feeding, but obviously not the NWs.
So now I don't know what to do. He seems to hate sleeping in the bassinet. I think he liked the closeness of the car seat. I had him swaddled with both arms out last night (he was not swaddled in his car seat), and then, in the MOTN, I swaddled one arm. He likes chewing on his hand, so I wanted to let him do that, and he's also working on trying to roll over, so I'm nervous about him doing that with both arms swaddled.
I feel like I've tried everything I can think of, and his sleep his still terrible. I'm so exhausted I can barely function.
Here's a sample of his days this weekend (I don't have a great idea for his EASY since I'm not with him 5 days a week):
E: 7:30 (after he poops around 6:30)
S: 9:30-10:30
E: 11
S: 1-3
E: 3
S: 6-6:30
E: 6:30
E: 7:30/8
BT: 8
Any ideas???