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January 2025 Babies 🇺🇸

Teething and sleep trenches

I would take newborn trenches ten times over than whatever stage this is but ever since he turned 12 I’ve slept way less the worst is I don’t even have the day to catch up like when he was a baby. I’m lucky if I can get him to sleep more than 2 good nights in a row but his canines and a molar are coming in and the molar been coming in since he turned 1 because he started ear pulling a lot at the time and hasn’t stopped and the molar is now half way out but the canines just started. Lately he been rejecting most of his food even sometimes his favorites and will mostly survive on snacks and milk but he been now asking for more milk at night because he still hungry which just makes him fussier. We give him Tylenol on the bad nights or if it’s been three sleepless whiney nights but sometimes even with Tylenol he stays whining in and out every 30 minutes. We currently regressed back to bed sharing for bedtime after getting him to sleep in his crib at 9 months and now two night bottles I do mostly water but he still drinks too much milk because of his night wake ups. Now he became dependent on our bed and bottle again and have to wean and adjust him back but everytime I attempt again I feel like he gets sick like right now he got a clogged eye duct so I feel bad having him cry it out or changing his routine so when he going through a tough time. I feel like a horrible mother lately cause of how often he been getting sick since he turned 1 and the regressions my coddling has caused him. He did so good at sleeping on his own and less night wake ups the first year and now I feel bad as I know he is supposed to be off of bottles and sleep through the night on his own but he been going through so much last couple months I just want him to be the most comfortable. Literally never felt more crazy in my life been weeks of sleeping less than 5 hours of broken sleep while still having To deal with the toddler tantrums in the day time and constantly chasing and cleaning up after my son. My husband been working overtime for an unknown time since his job just keeps extending his hours each week 12 hour days and atleast 5 hours on the weekend for the last three months so I feel like I never get a real break and I’m alone in one of the hardest moments. I’ve tried a lot of different techniques like adjusting bedtime and naptime and it helped for some issues and adjusting to water in his bottles but any sickness or new word sometimes sets him back and feels like I lost my progress.