So I think LMW is going thru some major teething pain. We've upped her acetaminophen dosage to 3.75 mL every 4 hours, but it's made no difference When we put her down for bed at 6pm, she falls asleep drinking her bottle easily and sleeps for exactly 30 minutes. Then she wakes up, and no matter how much we try to rock her and feed her more, she can't stay asleep for more than 10 minutes. We are constantly in and out, putting her back down, from around 7pm until 10:30pm. At 10pm she gets her second dose of tylenol and it takes a few more times, then she's usually down for the night by 10:45pm. Then she wakes for her middle of the night feeding around 4am (this morning it was 5am) and goes right back to sleep, but THEN the problem is that she sleeps thru til 10am. That's great for sleeping in (too bad we have WJ waking us up anyway, but he does usually sleep in til about 7am) BUT that starts this vicious cycle all over again and I know she won't go down for good tonight until 10:30pm again.

I am not willing to push her bedtime to 10:30 because I'm a working mom and I need her to go to bed at a decent hour so that I can do things like, um, eat dinner and wash dishes and bottles/ pump parts. We haven't watched TV in a good week or so, I missed the last postathon and we have had zero time to spend together. We haven't even had time or energy to go to the grocery store! My mom has had to make some MacGuyver type meals because our food stores are dwindling. Once LMW is down for the night, we just all rush to go to bed so that we can sleep as much as we can, and we're all exhausted from the long night of her crying and screaming.

HELP!! How can I push her bedtime back? I'm going to stay home all day today to work on some good naps (I know that the fact that she's overtired doesn't help things) but I'm so dreading tonight... from the hours of 6:30-10:30pm I'm really hating life. And I really really hate listening to my babygirl cry. It sounds like someone is pinching her. She just goes from silence to red zone screaming and it breaks my heart

We're getting some baby orajel today... I don't know what else to do... we tried unswaddling her last night and letting one arm out but her moro reflex is still too strong and she kept waking her self up.