I am soooo tired...my little man has been really trying my patience with his sleeping the last couple of weeks and I am at my wits ends as to what to do about it!
He used to self-settle quite well but now will not self settle AT ALL! It used to tak eme about 10 minutes of cuddles and bum patting to get him off to sleep, then I would put him in his hammock and he would stay asleep, maybe waking once or twice at the most during the night, sometimes i would feed him (if he was awake and whingy and other times he would settle with a bit of rocking of the hammock, which is next to our bed) he would always go to sleep immediately after feeding.
The last couple of weeks (and increasingly over the last few days) he is taking at least an hour of rocking and patting to go to sleep, I put him down in his hammock and he wakes up as straight away! He will just lay there looking around so I walk out of the room, he then talks to himself, then grizzles, then cries. When he starts to cry I go in and bounce his hammock till he calms down then walk out again. This can go on for hours if I let it, I always end up in tears, pick him up and rock him to sleep again and pray he stays asleep when I put him down.
This is how it went last night: (a typical night lately)
Start putting to sleep: 6:00........Finally asleep: 7:30
Awake: 9:30..........Finally back to sleep (in bed with me) 11:45
Awake: 1:45, feed.
Awake: 3:45, rock back to sleep.
Awake: 6:00, feed (give him to DH who slept on lounge, they play for an hour)
Back to bed with me at 7am, slept till 9.

He didn't seem to be in any pain, was not crying, just grizzy and restless. He was kicking his legs like crazy as if he wanted his wrap off, but refuses to sleep without a wrap! (I have tried many times). Even in bed with me he is restless and wriggly.
I have tried to put him in his cot (which is also in our room) He HATES that! He "back crawls" to the end of the cot (with his wrap on or wriggles out of it) and bangs his end on the end of the cot.
I just don't know what to do...I really need some sleep. DH is useless, not much help at all during the night and I can't even get him to give Jack a bottle of EBM as he refuses to take a bottle now...grrrrr.

I am so sorry that this post is so long, I really needed to get it all off my chest! I know most people go through the same thing at some stage and I'm sure I did with the other kids (just cant remember, LOL), I just really needed to have a whinge.