Is solids the only answer?

no solids isnt the only answer... and it may not fix the problem anyway...

it could be teeth. they move around a lot under the gums before breaking through. have you got some teething powder or gel or something you could try to see if that settles him down a bit?

Solids aren't the only answer. At 4mths it's a bit early for that. To share someone elses story the MIL said, oh look he's interested in food, it must be time to start solids. Reply was, he's interested in my key ring too, should I teach him to drive?

Anyhow, they go through so many changes. I still say DS changes every week. He has days of this, a week of that, it's all a phase - some more fun than others. When DS has days that he wants all my attention, I just give it to him - I call them his 'it's all about me' days

From memory DD did the same thing just over 4 months, but I was stubborn and there was no way she was getting solids! I was up several times per night feeding, it was so hard! At just under 5 months her first teeth appeared (within a week of each other), we started solids just over 5 months when she pinched food off my plate (we did BLW). Best to just take it as it comes, and try and hold off solids for a little while yet.

I love the key-ring response!

It does sound like he might just be going thru a phase - my suggestion would be to go with it (and keep him close - do you have a sling or something so you can wear him but still get things done around the house if you need to?) and hopefully you'll find that he comes out of it before you know it :) I'd hold off solids as long as you can - though in saying that, our intention was to avoid them until 6mths but for various reasons we ended up starting just after 5mths and it worked well for Bethany.

If you want to try anything else along the teething lines, we found teethmed (one of the naturopharm sprays you can get from the pharmacy) was really good for Bethany ages before any teeth ever appeared. That and colimed for when she had unsettled patches, cuz although she wasn't colicky, it really helped her settle down and seemed to calm her reflux too.

All the best - hang in there, the grizzles won't last forever I promise! ;)

Lol love the keyring story too!

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Babies are puzzles aren't they? It's just getting to know them too. Turns out he had a throat infection. He got worse (grizzling and screaming when going to bed) - really out of character for him so rang Plunketline and ended up taking BACK to the Dr.... and this time showed he had a red throat. Today he is worse still, so bought some Ibuprofen as well and if not better, will take back to the Dr on Monday - wouldn't be surprised if maybe it's reached his ear. Poor little guy.