Sleepless

Will is being a super handful for the last week. He's been more difficult now than he was as an infant, I think!

He's got a lot on his plate, so if I wasn't so absolutely exhausted, I wouldn't blame him for being extra fussy, extra needy of being held, and never ever sleeping. He has FOUR molars coming in at once. One of them just finished completely breaking through, but the rest of them are still just swelling up his little gums.

He was also running a fever out of the blue two days ago. Possibly from teething, possibly from a little cold, I'm not sure. Katie had a fever last week, which seemed so out of the blue as well, and then just slept it off and it disappeared the next day. His did the same.

For the last four nights, Will has refused to sleep. Not only is he only taking ONE nap a day, but he goes to bed late and then wakes up all night. He spends hours of the night sitting up jabbing me or crawling over me. Last night he was up from 4 AM - 5:30 AM, again from 7 - 8, and he woke up for good at 9. He only went to bed at 12:30, and I went to bed around 1 AM, so there was very little sleep.

It's been enough to make me want to stop cosleeping and put the fourth wall on the crib (it's sidecarred to our bed currently so he has his own space.) However, he still is heavily nursing through the night, so if I force him to sleep in his crib, I still have to wake up 2-4 times a night, take him out of the crib, stay awake while he nurses, try to convince him to go back in the crib, and repeat. That would have me awake even MORE than now!

I've also tried feeding him a big meal before bed so he doesn't need to nurse as much, but of course he won't have anything of it. He eats solids, but he's still not a big enough fan of them. He snacks on different solids all through the day. He eats bananas, meats, veggies, etc from my plate, but he likes breastmilk to still be his meals. When I try to get him to eat more, he just spits it out.

I'm super tired. I don't know what the solution is. I'm hoping it's just his teething keeping him up and it'll end any night now. Or if he'll start eating bigger meals and needing to nurse less so I can crib train him. Once he's walking and not nursing much of the night, I'd like to move him to the nursery in his own toddler bed next to Katie.