I’m a about 11 days into not being able to put my ebf 15 week old son in the crib which is right next to me attached to our bed. He is only happy lying on me (or my husband in the morning when I’ve had enough of no sleep!) or feeding to sleep. He’s managed two 2 hour stints in the crib until midnight and now won’t go down again and it’s past 4am .
Whenever I try to put him in his crib he cries. I try to pat him/hold his hand/comfort him etc. but he doesn’t settle and it escalates to crying so I pick him up, put him on me and he falls asleep straight away. Is this normal behaviour for a 15 week baby? He used to sleep 6 hours+ straight, then wake up to feed a couple of times but stayed in his crib until 5am/6am ish then have 1 hour sleeping on me. I’m fine if it’s normal for this age and hope it’s just a phase but can’t work out what I should be doing to help the situation and hope it doesn’t go on for months because I’m so tired! Is this the 4 month sleep regression early?
I don’t know why but I never realised this would be an issue before parenthood 😂 I really hope it doesn’t continue for months. Anyone else have experience of this with a similar aged baby?
Any tips or advice about getting baby back into the crib? Don’t want to do controlled crying and he won’t take a dummy... Help!
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Why won’t my baby sleep in his crib anymore?
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ShortyKoalaKay · 04/10/2020 04:14
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