Help please, FTM and need advice

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I’ve got a 3 month old son. He has been doing longer stints at night. 4-5 hours then 2-2.5hrs afterwards between feeds and all in his cot. He’s exclusively breastfed.

Now only recently since he was nearing the 3 month mark he has been getting increasingly unsettled and somewhat fussy. He still can manage a 4-5 hr stint in his cot but from then he just doesn’t want to go back in his cot. So we end up co sleeping and he may do 2 hrs but from 4am he now wakes every hour for a feed up until 6:30am. He’s a big boy, 16lbs. Could this be signs of early sleep regression? I can’t pin it on anything I’m doing differently as I keep him to a really simple routine for now

At this age everything is a phase. Sleeping well is a phase, sleeping badly is a phase. It’s likely nothing you’re doing, and nothing you can do. They just get in to their own little rhythm.

This sounds completely normal based on my own experience - my DS would wake hourly for feeds until around 6 months. It was exhausting but you get through it. I managed by co-sleeping, it got me some valuable snippets of sleep!

That sounds normal. There isn't necessarily a reason for it. The fact he's sleeping a 4-5 hour stretch is amazing though and I would get to bed and make the most of it. If you don't have other children, you might see if he will sleep longer after 6:30am if he has enough to eat. Or alternatively, if you have a partner who is getting up then for work, then you can possibly catch an extra hour of sleep before you get up, which does help.

My 17 month old is just managing 5 hour stretches by herself. It all sounds very normal afraid. Often there is no reason for babies sleep other than they are just being babies.