Help! Newborns sleep getting worse not better!

[Lizbiz89]

My 3 week old seems to getting worse in the night. He wakes up at 1am, then 4am, then 5am, then 6am. Then after 6 he just fusses and cries unless I hold him. It's actually getting worse not better. Where as before he used to be put down at 4-5 and wouldn't wake until 7. Can anyone give me any advice? He's ff as well as I physically couldn't keep up the demands of breastfeeding feeding him. He's a big baby and eats a lot!

It's completely normal his sleeping patterns will change all the time. He wants to be close to you and he's still getting used to his new world. Have a Google on the 4th trimester.

Yeah you really need to be able to adapt to the changes - there will be so many, particularly with sleep patterns.

Nothing is set in stone, especially with a 3 week old! Personally I wouldn't expect any kind of routine right now.

Yes it’s normal. By 8 months I was utterly sleep deprived and so relieved when he started sleeping through! I used to take a laptop to bed and watch episodes of stuff on catch up whilst he laid next to me wide awake at 3 in the morn. He was on my bed til 4 months as made it easier. Just when he was sleepy from breastfeeding- he’d shit and I’d have to change his nappy wake him and the cycle would start again . Looking back it seems so much more blissful than it was. People used to say enjoy the cuddles, used to rile me. I wish I had enjoyed it a bit more, don’t get me wrong I did- but when all you do is think about sleep and when you’re gonna get some it’s hard. Give it a few months and you’ll look back with rose tinted specs

Sleeping habits will change all the time, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse, and as little one ‘wakes up’ to the world and is no longer a tiny newborn, he’s likely to be less sleepy, more wakeful at day and/or night and find it harder to drift off to sleep. You just gotta roll with it. It is so so tough but you will be ok. As suggested above, watch stuff on iPlayer or whatever, play on social media, sleep whenever you get the chance. Best wishes.

Im afraid to say Your gonna have to get used to it.
My niece was an angel and most of my friends babies were sleeping through at 9 weeks but my little Boy is 4 months and his sleep pattern still changes all the time. Pretty much every week.
I've given up on hoping he will sleep through because it was stressing me out. Now I accept he probably won't for a while and I just expect to be woken atleast twice a night. When he has a better night's sleep and goes 5 hours, I just look at it as a treat and accept it won't be like that the next night.
3 weeks old is still so early. And I made the mistake of thinking the same as you. Now I look back on that time and feel quite guilty because clearly my baby just needed to be close to me. It's so scary for them in this big world. They're tiny and need cuddles and reassurance.
They grow up too quickly so make the most of it and maybe you will be one of the lucky ones whose baby sleeps through.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think I'll just enjoy the cuddles for now. Hopefully his sleep starts to improve shortly. I should be more than aware of newborn sleep as I already have a dd. Although she seemed to feed a lot less than my ds. She was sleeping 4-6 hour stretches very early on. I guess all babies are very different!