At a complete lost

[piaffe]

Sorry if this is jumbled mess, I'm exhausted and can barely see straight. Ds is 7.5 months old and for the past month or so has been awful during the night. In the past week it's been worse than when he was a newborn. Screaming arching his back and he has had some gas but no new foods to cause such gas all the sudden. No teeth or swelling of the gums that we can see. Sometimes he'll eat a bottle sometimes he won't. Screams as soon as I put him down. This week it's been almost every hour that he wakes up.
I'm losing my mind.

[dulcemariamar]

Can you get him checked out for an EI? Can you try giving meds in case he is teething?

[piaffe]

Yes going to doctor Tuesday. I have given him Tylenol and Advil

[jr009j]

We went through similar at the same age and think it was in large part due to newly developed separation anxiety. It really sucked and there was little we could do. We ended up doing CIO to get her to sleep not on me and it helped keep her down for the entire night.

[potatopie]

Tag team with your H. Nap as much as possible. I co-sleep to get as much sleep as possible. It's been a life saver to just roll over and comfort him or feed instead of getting out of bed.

[Deleted]

The screaming and arching when you put him down sounds like an ear infection to me

[andthentherewere10]

I'm sorry

[gibbinator]

I was also going to say ear infection. Is he crabby or more needy than normal when he's awake? Hope he feels better soon.

[Deleted]

Have you tried Colic Calm (or the equiv.) or gas drops again?

I used both on DD for quite some time on and off until past a year.

I do it with DS too now.

My pedi also said once kids can teeth and you can't really "see" or "know" it but they can swallow so much spit it upset their stomachs.

He could also be in a new skill phase. DD really never did that, but DS does like every other week. Up all night for God knows what then all of a sudden he can sit up, roll over or whatever.

DS also really likes a lot of white noise..esp. more so at 6.5 months. He's apparently a bit more sensitive to shutting doors, the phone ringing and general household noise than DD ever was. I also think it relaxes him so he can settle himself.

[piaffe]

We are using gas drops when he seems to be hurting. I sure hope it's a short phase or an EI just to explain what is going on.
Some days he's not fussy and some days he is.

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Sept 1, 2014 8:37:35 GMT -5 piaffe said:

We are using gas drops when he seems to be hurting. I sure hope it's a short phase or an EI just to explain what is going on.
Some days he's not fussy and some days he is.

Hang in there. 
I think a lot of it is just the age. 
DS seemed so unsettled for no real reason right around 4 months. We got through that and now at 6.5 we seem to be headed there again. 

DD was the easiest baby alive and I just looked her baby book for reference and she did the same thing at this age. 

Sometimes a shake up in routine helps. Like I start moving nap or bedtime or feeding time around a bit. I usually find something that works.

[SKP82]

Sept 1, 2014 8:37:35 GMT -5 piaffe said:

We are using gas drops when he seems to be hurting. I sure hope it's a short phase or an EI just to explain what is going on.
Some days he's not fussy and some days he is.

Try gas drops before every feeding. A nurse told me that they don't really work unless they're used consistently and they're perfectly safe to give every 2 hours.

DD did this after eating broccoli. It made her super gassy.

[piaffe]

Thank you all. I will try all these things and DH and I are taking turns during the night.