why is sleep evil?

DS has never been much of a day sleeper, ever since day 1 he has not really slept much during the day but has always slept a minimum of 5 hours at night. the last couple of months this has just disappered. he will wake up every 1/2hr-1hr and will not go back to sleep, even when he has panadol, nurafen etc. i assume this is cos of his teeth hanging around but not actually coming thru but ahhhhh im at my wits end! i need some suggestions on settleing him/comforting him when he wakes up...he does this thing where he sings/moans/groans to himself unless u distract him :wall: at the moment i am getting massive guns from carrying him up and down the hall singing and rocking and patting etc and ive tried putting him in our bed but that doesnt help and he wont let me put him down in his cot awake or pat his bum in the cot i have to pick him up otherwise he works himself into a frenzy...
i cant give him to DF/MIL/my mum cos he just SCREAMS like hes dying until they give him back to me. the only other person who can settle him is my sister and she has been staying a couple of nights a week to give me a bit of sleep but she cant keep staying over, its not fair on her.
i have 1/2 read the no cry sleep solution but it just made blah blah blah noises in me head and i honestly cant remember anything that it said (im blaming sleep deprivation for that)
sorry its a bit jumbled, do u guys have some suggestions please!?!

Blake did that about that age (although I think we started at 5 1/2 months) and is currently sort of doing that. I just had to ride it out. I think Blake would eventually settle for Tim while watching TV in the middle of the night. We were doning 1 1/2 - 2 hrly wake ups at this stage. We did dose Blake up on Infants Friend at the time too.
At the moment overnight, if he wakes I have to be the one to get up to him - goes hysterical if Tim gets him up if I have to go to the loo first. I did have some success early on (not in this bout) of sitting in my glider with Blake up at my shoulder and rocking to settle him. And he has to feed back to sleep overnight. So I get where you're coming from.

thanks liz :) fingers crossed he gets over it soon, he has only gone to sleep in the glider chair when hes been sick or fed to sleep (which he has conveniently stopped doing) *sigh* he has fluid in his ears apparently as well so it is all just adding up....

:hug: it's tough with a baby that doesn't let you get much sleep.

do you or can you co-sleep at all? i know you said you can't put him in your bed, but is there another bed that just you could share with him? it isnt ideal but it got us through months & months of wakeups. i've found being able to lie next to DS to settle him is a huge help, but at 7 months he was still feeding to sleep - but it helped if i could lie down to feed him where he was going to sleep so i didn't have to move him.

hopefully if the fluid in his ears clears up, that might make him a bit more comfortable?

sorry i'm not very helpful, hopefully someone else will have some good advice for you!

thanks hun, yes we cosleep on the unsettled nights and from when he wakes up for his early morning feed (anywhere from 2-4am) every morning. when we cosleep the whole night he will have boob every hr or so rather than at 11pm and 4am for example...but still wont settle!! *sigh* he was imitating a yoyo last night, hopefully we have a better night tonight!!