We are in need of some serious help with my 6 month old breastfed baby. I worked really hard before going back to work to not create any bad habbits with my little guy. Before I went back to work at 4 months he was consistently sleeping through the night (6 hours sometimes a little more). As soon as I went back to work he started waking up all the time. He goes down at about 6:30 or 7:30. and he will wake up at 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00. He screams so loud that he wakes up both me and my husband. He will also cry for a long time 15+min. I try and quite him before everyone is awake. I think my daughter sleeps through it, although I suspect her sleep is distrubted. I tried to be strong the first week, but I became so exhausted with working and being up all night that I started to lay down in our spare bed with him and when he would cry I would just feed him. He has been working on teeth. i've tried soothing him in his crib, that makes him louder, nightligts.
We are now so exhausted I am afriad to drive with the kids for fear I might fall asleep.
Husband has been picking baby up and dropping him off at an in-home daycare. There he has a morning bottle, nap, and cereal for lunch with a bottle afternoon nap and bottle. He is pretty active, He doesn't want to miss out on anything it seems so his naps sometimes are 40 minutes and sometimes are 3 hours. I follow pretty much the same schedule when I am home with him.
For his naps and night time he is swaddled, one song and given pacifier. at night nurse if he wants. but not asleep when i lay him down
