Plan B not working yet

The past 2 nights have been bad. Wren has slept for 4 hours, been rocked to sleep and slept a couple more hours and then woken hourly till 6-7am. Today was a bit better since we made it till 7.30am (8.30pm-7.30am. He woke 5 times between 10.30pm and morning). Since he is going to bed earlier thesedays my sleep hasn't overlapped enough with the long sleep and I am getting no more than one 2 hour stretch before the wipeout of napping and crying or nursing begins.

Josh suggested we start the Zantac again because he has woken screaming a couple of times and seemed to be gulping a bit. This is not the usual pattern but we shall try it in hope that it helps. I gave him Tylenol last night around 4am but it made no appreciable difference to his sleep. As before when he did this around 2 months old, he really doesn't seem to wake fully - he is in a state of crying in half sleep but unable to put himself back to sleep. The only difference is that thesedays picking him up and rocking him can exaccerbate the situation - waking him a bit more into a fit of screaming and wriggling and flopping his heavy head. The only foolproof solution is nursing which puts him to sleep in about 10-15 minutes 90% of the time. In the early morning it isn't as effective and he wants to remain latched on which makes for no sleep for me.

I am going to try going to bed around 9.30 in hope of sharing his deep sleep period. Oh, in other not-so-interesting-news for everyone else, Wren seems to be trying to have a longer nap in the daytime. For the past 2 days he has had shorter morning naps and is consolidating a longer nap or a series of naps back to back for 2-3 hours.

Sorry this topic is so boring, overdone, etc. I am too tired to explore more interesting terrain. However, during the day I cope okay and the weather is warming up into a slightly sunny spring.

Today I have plans to do the grocery shopping with Wren in tow.