This is driving me nuts!!!!!!

Daniel is driving me nuts over the past 3 days...

I don't know if it's a growth spurt or what, he's never been this bad during his other growth spurts..

He feeds, yawns like crazy so I try and put him down, he screams blue murder, I go in and try and comfort him. Tried the dummy, it gets spat out. Eventually he sleeps for maybe 15mins then screams again.

He will sleep fine on me but as soon as he's moved he screams like crazy.

Then an hour after his last feed he wants more and off goes the cycle.

I've tried everything I can think of, he doesn't sleep in the pram or the car. And now of course he's overtired and getting more and more overtired the longer this goes on because he doesn't actually get any decent sleep.

Any suggestions at all?? Please

Does it happen at a certain time of day?
This is happening all day for the past 3 days. Other than these 3 days though the only time he's quite unsettled is after his 4am feed and thinks its daytime.

Do you swaddle him at all?
He's always swaddled for his sleeps otherwise he smacks his face lots and wakes himself up more

Do you make sure he burps after a feed or burp him mid-feed?
I always try and burp him but it rarely ever gets anything out. He farts it out

Does he respond to soothing music at all?
No unfortunately

I was told that for the 12 week growth spurt to expect 2 weeks of unsettled behaviour. thank god Jack didn't even have one but if he doesn't start sleeping I would take to the dr.

Jack had reflux and I just remember he started of sleeping really well and then got worse and worse to a point where I remember trying to sleep on the couch and rock the bouncer at the same time. He never spewed or had low weight gain either. Once he was started on the medicine his sleeps slowly got longer and he started spilling a lot.

Good luck I'm really hoping this is just a random long growth spurt cos reflux really sucks.

James was the same he did it for a week and would only sleep for and hour at a time day or night we took him to the osteopath and my MW got me to do controlled crying with him they both worked a treat and never looked back since.

Hey My names Sam and my son Tristan Joel is nearly nine months old now. When Tristan was around 1 month to 3 months i had similar problems where he wouldnt sleep anywhere except in my arms. We thought he had colic and then we thought  he had reflux but niether of them were diagnosed. Eventually we just got through it and now he is amazing....weve definatly never looked back! Some things that definatly helped ME through those hard times ws putting on some lovely music (we used Celine Dion " Miracles" ) turned it up loud enough so the crying wasnt as ear piercing (which for my son was really loud) but not too loud so that the music hurt our ears and just walked around the room lost in my own thoughts. It definatly made a difference in my mood which nearly always had an effect on Tristan! I also used to take him into the bathroom and turn on the shower full boar. Tristan loved the sound of water and it at least stopped the crying long enough for me to collect myself! Sometimes he would even fall asleep during these things! So for me they really worked! I know how you feel and wish you the best of luck! Remember there is a light at the end of the tunnel!

yeah a bath works wonders too - seems to settle ellas tummy often....

and of course my mum would say you need to build up your milk if it is a growth spurt!!!

Is he getting tired/hungry when in the bath and that's why he doesn't enjoy all the fuss afterwards? Perhaps the bathtime is too long for him or could be rescheduled?

He's got silent reflux Poor lil man!

With bath time he's completely fine up until he is getting dressed and it's not cause he's tired or hungry or anything like that. It's simply him hating being dressed/undressed.

I'm glad you found out now. Bria had it but we didn't know until 10-12 weeks Was a very hard time. Hope things can improve now that you have a name and probably meds too.

Yay for more sleep