For the past week Jackson has been waking up roughly 6-8 times a night. The longest stretch he's going is 2 hours; the shortest is 5 minutes. Prior to this, he was waking each night around 2am and then 4:30am to eat. He always went right back to bed/sleep.

At the beginning of these increased wakings and this awful sleeping, I was trying to let him cry through the seemingly unnecessary feedings, but for the first couple nights he would literally cry on and off (the "offs" were a minute long, maximum) for 2 hours until I finally gave in and retrieved him. For several nights I tried simply soothing him back to sleep, but I found that even though he'll fall asleep, he wakes up about 5-15 minutes later unless I nurse him.

My first thought was perhaps that he is teething again, but a week later I've yet to find even a single swollen gum, let alone the beginnings of a tooth coming in.

Then I thought that it's interesting how this poor sleeping coincides perfectly with his newfound mobility. Perhaps his increased need for nursing is because he's hungry due to burning lots more calories these days? I've begun nursing as often as he seems like he wants it to increase my supply, but it hasn't seemed to make much of a difference in his contentment. Three nights later, I'm just exhausted--and so is he!

I don't want to begin feeding him any foods for at least another month, and I'm confident that my body can meet his needs, if this is indeed the problem. That said, I'm not confident that I'm doing everything I can to make sure my body meets the demand as quickly as possible!

And, of course, the issue could be something altogether different that I've not yet thought of.

So I guess this question is posed to all mothers:

What might this be?--and what do I do?!?!