We used to have an angel baby who was an AWESOME sleeper. Even shortly after birth she would only wake up once a night to feed (bf).
We started solids around 5 months (she already weighed 16 pounds, could sit with little support, showed interest etc etc). Her first food was very watery rice cereal. She seemed to like it, but, that night, she woke up almost every 2 hours. Every night that week, the same thing. Sometimes she would cry and cry until I fed her back to sleep. I thought it could maybe be her top teeth coming since she already had her bottom 2...
The following week we tried mixing in some pureed squash to her diet. The night wakings continued. By this time, I realized it wasn't teeth. I gave her cocyntal after she became quite upset, and she relaxed.
We took a few days off the solids (she was still fussy ... but that could have been because she got a tooth for real this time). Since then, we have tried peas, carrots and sweet potato. Sometimes with cereal, sometimes without. It doesn't matter... no matter what... she is miserable during the day (at times) and a monster at night. Don't even ask about the day that we gave her a Mum Mum! (which she devoured, by the way!). We have gone through a whole box of cocyntal... but I'm not sure that it's even working. Sometimes she still cries for a while after we give it to her.
I should also mention that since birth she has been a power pooper. By that, I mean she has extremely forceful poops that often end up all over her back and sometimes even up to her neck. We call them "poo-namis". I mentioned this to the doctor once, and he just laughed. I'm wondering now, however, if we have a more serious problem.
Any ideas out there?
