no good news, I'm afraid. Last night was worse than ever. He went to bed at 7 as usual, screamed at 9.30, as usual, then went back to sleep until just before midnight. It was DP's turn to camp out, and he was so fed up with trying to resettle Aadi between midnight and 3am that he just let him scream from 3am onwards. Our neighbours must hate us. I hate us! Anyway, after a while I couldn't take the screaming anymore, and I don't know how DP was handling it being right next to Aadi the whole time. I went in and got Aadi out of the cot, changed his nappy and gave him a small dose of Pain Stop. I then brought him in to my bed and gave him a feed to try and calm him down and get him to stop screaming for a minute. He had a feed then kept screaming and kicking me for another hour before finally going off to sleep at 5.45. He slept until 7.15...
So after breakfast and playtime, he starts getting tired as usual around 9.30, so I try to put him down for a nap, but he just wanted to feed and suck and suck and wouldn't go to sleep. After half an hour of mucking around I had enough, put him in his cot and left him to scream while I had breakfast and vacuumed to drown out the horrible noise. I got him up out at 11 and tried to calm him down again. He just wouldn't be held, but kept screaming at me if I put him down and trying to climb up my legs. He calmed down enough to try lunch, but spat it everywhere and screamed at me some more while I cleaned everything up. I have just now managed to feed him off to sleep at 1, and I tell you, my back is breaking from the weight of this feeling, and my heart is breaking from all this screaming and the fact that nothing I do is helping this boy sleep. DP tells me to take him out for a walk but I am too tired to push the monster in the pram, let alone put shoes/hat/scarf/gloves/coat on both of us right now. It's sunny but freezing.