My son won’t sleep

Is he teething maybe

@Jennifer I don’t know. Maybe. But i give him medicine on schedule. And he throws tethers at me..

I just ask because my girl only gets that way if she’s teething and she gets spurts of anxiety with crying for no reason. So I use the Camilia teething drops.

@Jennifer where do you get them ? I’ll try anything

@Jennifer I’m sorry if I sounded snappy. I’m just really at a breaking point.

Our baby girl just went thru this. Right now babies are at the stage of separation anxiety being a pretty intense thing for them. Our baby would cry alllll night long unless we were holding her in a certain position. What worked personally for us is a need sleep routine. We would rock her to sleep and then transfer her initially but that just wouldn’t work because it was hysterics the moment we transferred her. Our new routine is, play for 10 minutes whole a bottle warms, then once bottle is warmed up we do diaper and pajamas. Feed bottle after, then put her in sleep sack, then a story for 5-10 minutes (max), and then we lay her in bed with a plush toy and she’s pretty good about falling asleep that way. Basically the reason it’s working is we aren’t rocking to sleep, she’s falling asleep not in our arms that’s worked for us. Then when she wakes, she knows she won’t be in our arms. I hope you find something that works for you. 🩷

@Meghan I guess maybe he’s over tired? That’s the thing that I don’t understand… I guess I should have been more specific , he sleeps at night. 8pm-6am…All through the night…In a crib… it’s the daytime, he won’t nap, he’s not hungry, he’s not dirty, he doesn’t want toys, he doesn’t want tethers, he’s *okay* when we take a walk but not for too long.. he’s just so angry in the daytime

The advice I have always been given to help a crying baby is put them in water or take them outside. You could look up how Scandinavians let their babies sleep! They sleep outside in the cold for naps because it’s super good for them. You’d have to look up how to properly bundle him tho.

@Meghan oh it’s soo not cold where I live.. oddly I actually tried to let him nap in the pack and play outside today…i had to bring him in because I felt like someone was gonna call CPS because he was crying so long 😞 I’ll try water next time though.. Thankfully I’m almost at bedtime and I can hopefully regain an ounce of sanity

I wish you the best of luck! Sometimes a bath is just what a baby needs. Something about water makes my girl so happy I swear

@Meghan thank you 🙏🏼

Is he sleeping okay at night, or does he wake up a bunch? Or tugging at his ears at all? Is he taking a bottle/nursing still? My baby did this when he had a double ear infection. He wouldn't sleep, eat, and just cried a bunch throughout the day because he was so tired and uncomfortable. Or maybe he's just bored and needs new things to do during the day. Do you rotate through his toys? You could try introducing new toys or objects, or making sensory bottles/bags/buckets for him to do. There's tons of ideas online for those and a lot of them are objects or food you already have.

@Veronica he sleeps great at night.. it’s my only break. Roughly 8pm- 6am. .. no tugging at ears.. he’s nursing still, but has weaned himself for the most part.. he nurses maybe 2-3 times each day…. I do rotate toys. I put out all new toys 6 days ago, but I’ll try to rotate them again tomorrow. .. I’ll try a sensorybin too. I’ve seen them with cooked rice.. he’s really bad about stuff in the mouth, so it’s got to be totally edible… Thank you for your help

I have found today that he liked when I played my daughter’s Storypod. He started to doze a little bit. Maybe when he falls asleep he feels alone? He sleeps in his crib and night and usually naps before all of this..

I get that, my baby puts everything in his mouth too and gets mad when we don't let him😅 I'm sorry you are feeling so stressed from this. Hopefully it's just a phase or teething and that it will pass soon.

To me it sounds like he’s just fighting his nap/naps during the day. It’s just figuring out what works for him for naps. My daughter sleeps at bedtime so well but during the day I have to bounce her on my chest for like 5-10 min or until she falls asleep or she will just cry and be so mad all day. Big bounces too or she will just fight it. She still naps 2 times a day. I used to just be able to lay her in her crib with her blanket and she would nap on her own