@FATEdestiny I've seen you on a lot of sleep threads, can you offer any advice please?
DS is 3 months old next week. He used to sleep pretty well in his bed and would have 1/2 night feeds and sleep 12 hours or so. Every now and then he'd have a night where he wouldn't settle back in his bed around 2/3am and would wake up a lot and I would end up holding him for the rest of the night and he'd sleep soundly. This week it's been every night. Some nights from 12:30. I'm getting between 1-4 broken hours a night and I'm exhausted.
Background info on his sleep:
Hasn't 'just' fallen asleep since 2 weeks old, even in sling has to be walking/rocking and singing/white noise
Naps only in sling/arms, for between 30 mins-3 hrs, normally 3-5 hrs a day
Can be happy but will cry as soon as I try to get him to sleep
If I just leave him he will be awake for more than three hours and be very upset
Will only fall asleep in arms either after a feed or with rocking and singing/white noise, have tried putting him down drowsy but awake, hand on tummy and shh pat makes him cry more. Have tried leaving him in his bed and he grumbled for 30 minutes while I rocked the crib before he started crying
Will not sleep in bouncy chair, pram, seat part of buggy, car seat
Will not take a dummy
Will not sleep next to me, has to be on me
Is there anything I can do or try to encourage him to sleep either in his bed or co sleep next to me for the later part of the night? The lack of sleep is starting to affect my patience with him and I know it's not his fault so I don't like feeling frustrated. I'm just really tired.
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addler · 07/03/2021 03:57
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