Hi ladies,
I know that in the grand scheme of night wakings I probably don't have much to complain about, but after three nights of multiple wakings due to teething (I HOPE) and on top of a stinking cold that has knocked me for six, I'm really at the end of my rope.
DS' first four teeth came in from mid-Jan till end of Feb, and he seemed to be affected most by them coming up from the jaw. At the time I didn't realize he was teething
And thought he was just hungry, so I'd feed him twice a night. This would soothe him and he'd go back to sleep. Once I realized it had been teething, we worked on eliminating the night feedings with mostly success, down to one occasional one if the day had been a particularly bad eating day.
For the past three days, we think some molars have been coming through. All the symptoms of teething are there, and he's waking five or six times a night crying. Most of these I can settle him back down with tabs and oragel. On a couple of occasions each night however, he's got so fraught that I've offered him a feed, he's taken it, and settled back down.
I guess I'm really wondering what Tracy thought of comfort nursing. I feel bad trying to settle him with pu/pd when he's obviously in pain, and I know that I can unwind an soothe him with nursing. On the other hand, I don't want to undo all of my hard work at eliminating the night feeds. I personally don't see anything wrong with comfort nursing, but am loathe to start a habit that I will have to break. In addition, if I'm in for a six week stint, I don't know... But at least if I know I'm just in for a 10 minute feed twice a night, that's a lot easier than the current 60-90 minute awake periods that we have.
What have you b/f moms/mums done with teethers?
Of course the nine month growth spurt is almost upon us too...
Thanks for any advice,
Katy
