I'm going a bit stir crazy and I feel like I am really failing at helping my poor little baby to get the sleep he needs... and I'm pretty exhausted myself!
He's never been a long sleeper and the most he has slept at a stretch is 4 hours. I could cope with that though cause it was just feed and back to sleep and he was clearly hungry so all well and good. The stretches have been getting shorter and shorter though and lately we've been going more like 2-3 hours between every wake/feed.
I was trying not to feed him every 2 hours but settle him and feed every second time he woke (so 4 hours between a feed). This mostly worked unless he cried and then I would feed him assuming that maybe that was why he woke up. Even without feeding every 2 hours though he still wakes up. We cosleep and use cloth nappies so I've tried disposables in case he was feeling wet, I've tried different layers of clothing in case he's hot/cold, I've tried putting him in the cot (next to our bed) in case being in our bed is somehow waking him or he prefers the tightly tucked in sheets of his cot... none of that seems to be working. He is still wrapped in a muslin as he wakes after a few minutes with his arms out and he has a dummy but he generally spits this out when going to sleep and isn't a huge fan of it overnight so I don't think he wakes because it's come out as often he wont even take it if I try to use it to resettle him.
He started solids a week ago and the sleep has been getting steadily worse till last night he woke up about every hour (he had apple for the first time yesterday). I would think it could be solids and an upset tummy but how do I fix that? He is doing baby led solids and barely actually eats anything and I only feed him at lunch time to give him time to digest it. And besides he's never been a good sleeper- he had a shocking week before starting solids and I thought he was hungry!!
I need ideas. I feel like I'm all over the place popping him in the cot and in bed and feeding or cuddling or doing god knows what through the night. I'm so tired. What should I try?
Oh, he's also rolling heaps in bed so I'm thinking it's time to get a sleeping bag- but then what happens to the wakeful arms?
Thanks
