Yes I know he's still tiny and that breastfed babies wake more often but surely he should be able to manage more than 2 hours at a time??!
Since he was about 8 weeks he's had a bedtime routine of sorts: in his sleeping bag, feed in a darkened room, cuddle then in his Moses basket. He usually goes down without much fuss at about 8.30pm (can't do it any earlier at the moment because I have DD to put to bed first). Then begins the biggest stretch of the night - he'll usually sleep for 3 hours. But after that it's no more than 2 hour stretches, sometimes as little as one. So an average night will see him wake up at
11.45pm
1.30am
3am
4.45am
6am
7.30am
and every time he wakes crying. The basket is right by my bed so I can hear that occasionally it's wind that wakes him up, or milk that's sort of gurgling away in his gut. Then I just sit him up on my lap and calm him down and put him back. But 9 times out of 10 he seems to want feeding (or I feed him because I can't think of anything else to do because it's 3am and I don't have the energy). I feed him and he goes back down without crying again, though I do have to keep him sat up for 15 minutes or so.
Basically I'm shattered and desperate to get him sleeping longer. And before you say he'll naturally extend his sleep as the weeks go by - DD was exactly like this until she was a year old and I got tough and sleep trained her. Am I just unlucky or am I doing something wrong? I feed from both sides every time and he's gaining weight really well so I don't think I'm underfeeding him. His napping in the day is random though I try to put him down at the same sort of time. He can nap for 15 mins or 3 hours (3 hours!) but I can't see any correlation between length of naps and how he sleeps at night because the napping is always different but the nights are always the same.
I know you shouldn't compare to other people but every single person I know who had a baby around the same time as me has them sleeping for at least 4hours at a time and when I tell them about DD they look horrified. Do I just have to put up with it or is there some magic trick I can do?
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Tallulahoola · 20/01/2016 21:39
Tallula do you have my baby? 
His sleep patterns are almost exactly as you described. We had a couple longer stretches of nighttime sleep (ie almost 4 hours) the last couple nights as I've introduced a bedtime routine this week, but that went out the window today as he didn't get his midday nap and ended up sleeping from 5.30 to almost 9 this evening. He can sleep well in the car or pram, his baby bjorn seat and sometimes the sling, basically everywhere but in the snuzpod at night!
Currently he's asleep on me and I don't know if it's worth trying to get him back in the cot as 5am is often when it's hardest to resettle him. Mine seems to have a really strong startle reflex so swaddling does help a bit.
Everyone I know whose babies sleep through are girls. I tell myself that when the 3-4 month sleep 'regression' hits, we probably won't notice as there’s nothing to regress from!
Keep us posted how you get on--I'll let you know if I find the magic sleep bullet.
I'm trying to only use the dummy when soothing to transition to sleep and have had some success. He's started rubbing his eyes now too--at first I wasn’t sure if it was a random gesture but he definitely looks tired when he does it repeatedly, so I treat that as a sleep cue now.
FATEDestiny has a lot of interesting and useful info on sleep in other threads, so read her posts (if you haven't already).
DS is my first too and I rarely have a clue what I'm doing. Doesn't help that my parents went on and on about what great sleepers my sister and I were. 
they've stopped that now they know their grandson isn't!
Ds is my second and I still don't know what I'm doing 
Actually I think the lesson I learnt with my first is that babies sleep if and when they want, so this time I am spending less time trying to get him to sleep and trying to work around him (eg by sleeping when he sleeps, toddler permitting). I don't think how they sleep now has much impact on their long term sleep, there are so many changes and sleep regressions over the first year. dd didn't sleep through till she was over one year old (despite me trying every trick in the book) but now she is three she hardly ever wakes in the night.
Thanks everyone for the replies. Makes me feel so much better to know it's not just my baby who's doing this. Hope everyone's nights improve soon. If anyone magically cracks it then please come back and post on here...
FATEdestiny I was intending to follow your advice today but of course today he decided to sleep no longer than 15 minutes at every nap time 
so god knows what tonight will be like. I'm going to bed when DD does at 8.30pm. Such exciting lives we lead!
That should be DS, not DD. I'm so sleep deprived I've forgotten what kind I've got 
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