I know he's teething. I know he's getting over a cold. But to not let me sleep for more than half an hour at a time is just not on.

Last night he did 8-8.30-9-9.30-10.15, then I was up until 11.30 (he slept) - btw, I was napping on the sofa in the sitting room until about 10, so it isn't my presence that keeps waking him - then he woke up again about 11.45,12.15,12.45, needed me pacing the floors until gone 2, awake again at 2.30 and I was pacing the floors another hour, same again at just before 5am, then at 6.30 and 7. If I stop pacing he wakes up and screams. If I try to sit down still holding him he screams. He didn't even want me to have a shower this morning (tough, I can sing to him for ten minutes and he managed not to cry for about 9 of those minutes).

What on earth is going wrong? Why am I such a dreadful mother he won't sleep for me? I know it's not about my mothering, but every time we have a bad patch (this has gone on for about a week now) all I can hear is my mother saying "Well, I don't know what YOU'RE doing wrong. I had you both sleeping through at 8 weeks. Your grandmother was very good with babies, all hers slept through at 6 weeks." Implicit inference from that is that she thinks I'm a crap mother.

I feel like crap - he still does his 3 day sleeps but I have to enforce them too, he fights every single sleep all the way.

We have a routine we stick to, we have a lullaby that works (although my throat is very sore now), our day routine is even the same day in, day out (mornings for sitting, stories and quiet play, ie Mummy time after a bad nights sleep; afternoons for big play, sometimes with other babies; evenings for bedtime routine (I am serious, this starts with DH coming home at 5.15, everything is pretty much clockwork until sleeping time), sleeps at 9.30-10ish for 30-60 mins, 12ish for 1-2 hours, 4ish for 30-60mins). We go out in the fresh air every single day. Usually in the mornings.

When he wakes he isn't hungry, just grousing about something. I say grousing, five seconds later it's full-blown screaming. He sleeps ususlly on his back or his side. He has a bedtime toy that he seems fond of. He knows he is in his crib as when I put him in there he opens his eyes briefly and grabs his rabbit to cuddle. What else can I do?