My little boy is 21 weeks (18 weeks corrected as he was 3 weeks early) and I feel like we've been in the 4 month regression for forever (6 weeks now if not more). We co sleep and he is EBF and fed ti sleep. He will absolutely not sleep any other way, tried 3 different cots and every other method under the sun to get him to sleep without boob but it just takes forever and he ends up screaming hysterically and takes even longer to get him to sleep (I rocked him today and he fell asleep after an hour and as soon as I lowered myself to sit down on the bed he woke up, it's extremely tiring and my nipples are getting sore again because he is constantly feeding). He is awake in the day for an hour ish before getting cranky then I put him down for a nap which are only 30 minutes long, if i try and get him to nap longer he just stares at me and sucks for eternity. His routine is bed by 6-7 and he'll sleep until 1am ish, but then after this he wakes every 2 hours, often every hour, until 5am (use to be 6am but now he's also waking 5am and is wide awake which is killing me, I've tried both getting him to sleep earlier and later to see if he'll wake up later but to no avail). I am exhausted. Throw in teething too so he's cranky. According to the wonder weeks app he is 5 days away from the end of this leap. Will this even end? I feel like I have a newborn again who is constantly feeding, wakes hourly, can't be put down, still fed to sleep. The only thing which I think would work eventually is CC or CIO which I will never do as he gets hysterical if I leave him on his own and it's just not for me. Would weaning help? Any advise would be appreciated please, getting upset by it all.
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