My ten-month old, on the way to sleeping through at night at 5 and a half months suddenly started waking very frequently. He started teething and was also waking almost every half-hour after I put him down at about 7:30 or 8:00pm. He would cry when I put him down, I'll pick him up to calm him and try to put him down, he'd cry until I feed him. This PU/PD sometimes lasted 2 hours.
He doesn't feed too long at night, maybe for about 10m mins. I feed him one side per feed, so usually move him to give him the next feed. AS a result of this frequent waking, he has moved into our bed while he used to stay in his cot till about 2:00/:3:00am, when he used to wake for his first feed at 5 and a half months. He feeds about 2 - 4 times per nights and sometimes at 5:00am he'll have a 30 min. feed.
He wakes, cries and looks for the breast to feed, pulling at my clothes. He calms immediately when I feed him and goes back to sleep. He also grabs my clothes and hooks his feet around me so I think he is having SA as well.
He has not been eating well since teething but is getting his appetite back since top teeth have come out.
His routine is as follows:
7:00 wakes & plays a while
8:00 breakfast (he doesn't like cereal, trying fruit and will try eggs soon) & then playtime
9:30 nap
10:10 wakes & plays (and rearranges the house) while mum cleans and cooks, sometimes we fit in a morning walk
12:00 lunch
13:00 nap
13:30 wakes and plays
15:30 daddy comes home
16:00 naps
16:30 wakes
17:00 walk
17:30 supper and some playtime
19:00 bath time
20:00 sleep
After putting him down, he wakes almost every 30-40 mins for 2 hours, i.e. from 8-10pm. He usually settles at 10, by which time I have taken him from the cot and have fallen asleep with him, utterly exhausted. He wakes at 12:00am and then at 2:00am and then at 5:00am for short feeds and goes back to sleep.
This is taking its toll on me, am exhausted, relationship with dh suffering, and am not getting to my books at night when he should ideally be sleeping. I am taking on a childminder in the next month as I am a graduate student working on my thesis. I will work from home and be around while the childminder is here.
Any advice would be wonderful as I am becoming soo frustrated with my honey as the daytime naps are bad enough, now my nights have been so exhausting these few months as well.
Greenmama