HELP !!! im exhausted. startting to feel sick

[swann3]

Help me please my ds is 23 weeks and the last 2 weeks not slept first he was just waking up at 3 for feed and taking an hour to go back down but now he's up at 12/1 for hour hour half then again at 3 for an hour then up at 6 for day. Spoke to health visitor they said feed him more as he's weaned but its made no difference I really need sleep. Any ideas

Could he be going through a development phase and be needing more cuddles, comfort and reassurance? If that's the case it shouldn't last too long before his sleep gets back to normal.
Could he be feeling the cold now the temp is dropping overnight? Maybe an extra blanket or low background heat might help?
Could he be teething? Anbesol or other teething gel might help, as well as calpol ibuprofen if he seems in pain.
Perhaps tinker a bit with daytime naps and bedtime time: might he be not very tired, or even overtired? Either of these can affect sleep.

He is teething but I give him calpol teething gel before bed. He's got extra blanket and when I put him to bed we put the heating on low so he's warm he always loves cuddles lol. Have kept him awake abit more in day and let hum sleep when he wants I feel I have tried every thing he does go through nights where he gets up but its never lasted 2 weeks just would like 1 night lol

Baby nurofen perhaps if it is teething?
You have my sympathies, I've been there. It's hell.

Thanks yea sooo tiered xx

Me too! Knackered :(

My DD is 13 months old though! She slept for 6 hours in the other night, then partied the rest of the night. I was like a zombie.

I think she's going through the developmental stage of learning to walk, so it's playing in her mind.... or I could just be making excuses as she's been a crap sleeper from birth!

I know that isn't very helpful, OP, sorry.

Do you bed share? I find that's the only way either of us get any sleep.

Ah sending you sympathy. In my experience we have gone through periods of extremely poor sleep at various stages, for no obvious reason - teething, growth spurt, apparently they go through a period of increased brain activity or growth around 9mo, sometimes no idea why dd2's sleep has suddenly gone off. For the past 2 weeks her sleep has been terrible and I've been up and down with her, had her in the bed with me for an hour or two from around 1am and then she has been up from 5.30am. I just keep telling myself that every time it feels like the end of the world and I can no longer function, but then it does improves again each time. Just wanted to give you a light at the end of the tunnel, that your lo will likely start sleeping again soon, for no apparent reason. Hope it isn't long before it gets better for you.

If I brought him in bed with me when he wakes would he then get in the habit of wanting to come in bed with us all the time after. He used to join me in bed when he was younger and we would get sleep. He is starting to crawl. Thanks for all advice I hope it doesent last to much longer either so tiered.

I was worried about dd2 getting used to coming into bed with me too, but brought her in anyway to settle the crying. Last night whatever the problem has been these past few weeks seemed to have improved as she slept from 7pm till 5.30am without coming into the bed with me and only woke then because dh was oncall and the phone went off. I think she is old enough now that if she did just cry to come into the bed I could do CC and not yield to it, provided she wasn't poorly or teething. She has a streaming cold today so likely tonight will be a bad one again... Personally I think bringing them into bed is okay if it gives you both some needed sleep, and if it does seem to become behavioural you can always deal with that.