Hi ForShelby, huge hugs....I am so sorry you are going through this....it sounds like something is making him uncomfortable, causing him to wake up...I can't remember from your other posts if you said you had been to a baby osteo/chiro? Is he on reflux meds....have you heard of the Horsham Colic Drops? All natural, a pharmacist in Horsham make them, people swear by them. If I think of anything else I will come back.
It can be tough when you have little or no support. It's surprising how many of us are out there with no family to help.
Time was all that worked for me. DS1 started sleeping well at six and a half months. I was soooo tired and strung out - and then it just happened.
DS2 is 20 months old and he still sleeps like a baby - and by that i mean he grizzles and wakes up and wants company and sleeps a bit and grizzles some more etc etc! I didn't want to try sleep school just because the only ones i could find used CC, and that's not really my thing. I hope you can catch a few good days in a row and you can start to feel human again.
Oh gosh I wish I could do something for you, I haven't had a non sleeper myself but yeah, some babies just don't like sleep and it is nothing you have done, some kids are just like that.
With the government run sleep schools, they work on referral from health nurses so even if you got to talk to some one they would probably not be able to get you in. So you need to get your local health nurse (not sure what they are called in Queensland CYH/CHN whatever) on side and fighting in your corner. Do they have day services in Queensland......where you go in for a few hours with a nurse and they have a room and cot set up and they see how things are going? While the intention is for them to give you tips on what to do, if they see what is happening first hand they will see that it really is an exceptional circumstance that needs an exceptional plan. From what you are saying she will be writing out the referral quick as a flash. Also it shouldn't be up to you to find different services and what not, your nurse is the one in the networks who has the contacts and knows what is available, get her to point you in the right direction.
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