Stirring at night - 14 weeks old

[Chasabeth]

Hey guys,

I need some advice on my little boy. He's 14 weeks old and we have been really lucky with his sleeping so far. When he was born he fed every 3/4 hours at night and it's gradually got longer. Most nights he now sleeps between 6 and a half and 8 hours straight which is great. He sleeps from about 9ish and then midnight he wakes for a feed, then sleeps though til morning.

Only problem is recently he's been stirring about 3am, kicking his legs about and thrashing around in his cot but he always has his eyes closed. He does have a dummy and we give it too him but he has it for all of 2 minutes and spits it out. He does this for normally half an hour and manages to drop off but last night he ended up having a feed. He is FF due to issues with BF early on. I've tried gripe water and infacol as there are a lot of farty pops when he does stir, and I spend ages trying to wind him before I put him down so I'm stuck for ideas.

I know we are lucky with his sleeping and I shouldn't complain but any advice would be great

[dennant]

Hi chasabeth, no advice I am afraid, but watching with interest. Our little girl does a similar thing. She goes down between 9 and 10 and sleeps through till 5am for a feed. However the past two nights she has slept through till morning but is getting a bit shouty around 3ish, she doesn't seem to wake up and we lay there listening to her for a while before dropping back off. Wondering why she is starting to do this?

[Chasabeth]

Thanks dennant, glad it's not just me. He did the same thing last night, kicking and thrashing about but with his eyes closed. I know how lucky we are that he sleeps as long as he does but it'll be nice to get an idea of what's up

[Becky2208]

Ds does this too - the only thing that calms him down is letting him sleep on me for a while. If anyone has another solution I'd be very interested!