DS will be 16 weeks on Thursday and for the last week his sleep has gone to pot, for example last night he slept fine till midnight but then was up every hour.
For a few weeks prior to this he had managed to wake only once or twice a night and it felt as though the worst was over but it's now worse than when he was a newborn.
Is there anything I can do to improve his sleep? He seems to be waking between sleep cycles and can't resettle himself. He has also developed an aversion to sleeping on his back. I have managed to sort out a side position in which if he rolls he goes onto his back rather than his front but he will then wake as soon as that happens.
His daytime naps are an issue too in that he will only nap in a moving pram, a moving car or in my arms (and even then only after a bit of a cry). I could live with that though if he was OK at night.
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nightandthelight · 24/05/2016 07:46
No real advice (sorry), just sympathy! Absolutely exactly the same with our DS, timings & all. He's 19+3 now and we're - touch wood - just coming out the other side of it. Nothing we did helped, so we focused on managing the situation rather than trying to fix it. 
This is me too. DS is 16 weeks and everything has gone to hell. He is napping ok in the daytime but is shattered and screaming/not sleeping from around 5pm. After an epic 3 hour battle to get him to sleep, he wakes every few hours. Throw in the warmer, lighter nights and bright mornings, the new-found constant clingy-ness, and the fact that my husband seems to be working/socialising ALL the fucking time at the moment and I am one fed-up mother. 
I thought things were supposed to get easier but I found the newborn days a million times better than this!
Hugs sparkly We have the clinginess too, DS used to love his playmat but now won't go down on it. I can get about 10 minutes out of the jumperoo.
We actually had a good night last night, one feed at 12:20 and a bit of stirring twice but he went straight back down. Still waking horribly early but am hoping this is a permanent improvement and not a one off!
The nights he was waking every hour and was up for the day around 5 were far worse than the newborn days where he would sleep two hours in a row and would stay in bed all day with no need to be entertained!
Thanks night I'm glad you had a better night last night. We did too, eventually, and I just went to sleep and let DH do the dream feed. I think the fact I was in floods of tears when he got home gave him a fright because he also phoned in between meetings to see how we were getting on today! I have borrowed some slings (one hip sling and one front carrier) and so far today they seem to be helping with the clingyness. Not a cure-all but better than the constant carrying. I am also finding the playmat and jumperoo not to be of interest at the moment. They used to be my lifesaver!
I hope last night was a sign of good things to come for you!
Sorry to hear that nouser :( We had a bad night again including being awake from 4:10! Today I am surviving on caffeine and sugar 
The inability to put them down is a nightmare, cannot wait for this phase to pass.
Does it make a difference if they're prem do we think...my lo has just turned 20 weeks (she was 3 weeks prem and 5 lb) and it's just started...
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