Yet another sleeping thread... help with 3 month old

[Pinktruffle]

I'm sorry to start another one, I know there are lots of these but I think sleep is one of the most testing bits of early parenthood.

I had a second DS 3 months ago (literally 3 months to the day). He has always been a much trickier sleeper than my first born. My eldest was a contact napper till 6 months but slept fine in his Snuzpod at night. He was sleeping 6/7 hour stretches at 10 weeks old. My youngest is also a contact napper but I had expected this, he however did not go down at night and wanted to be held all night - this was a shock. He would sleep in our arms but wake screaming 3 minutes after being put down. After trying lots of different methods we managed to get him to sleep in his Snuzpod or our bed fairly well from 6 weeks old. We spent Christmas and New Years at my parents house (they live over 100 miles away) and he slept fairly consistently in his travel cot there overnight. We got home on Monday and things have been a shit show since. We have tried all our usual methods to try to get him to sleep laying down and they have all failed. I an exhausted and at a loss as to what has happened.i can deal with contact naps during the day but the night stuff is killing me, especially with a toddler to deal with. Has anyone got any advice or tips to help him sleep laying down? I've tried cosleeping, putting him in his Snuzpod, repeatedly putting him down.m letting him cry but nothing works. His crying gets hysterical and he ends up hurting himself by scratching his face so I've had to pick him up after 10 mins.

Is he possibly going through an early 4 month sleep regression? I feel stuck and end up spending all day on the sofa with him because I'm so tired, my toddler ends up infront of the TV on the days he's not at nursery though DH wil take him out if he is not working. We are both shattered and it is getting too much. My life was isolated enough without adding sleep deprivation to the mix, it's stopped me going out completely.

You said he slept well at your parents house in a travel cot. Why don't you try and use that instead of the snuzpod?

It's over 100 miles away at my mum and dads. I am wondering if its more the house as my parents have a fairly new build so it's very warm, we have an old house so it's quite cold. I did try putting the heating on for longer so our bedroom was warmer but it didnt help. I tried the hot water bottle in the Snuzpod too but that didnt work either. He was sleeping fine in the Snuzpod before we went to my parents at Christmas.

Maybe getting one for your house would help. If money's an issue, they are fairly cheap second hand on Facebook market place. What does he normally wear for bed? Perhaps getting him one of those zip up blanket type things ( can't remember what they're called right now) if he doesn't have one already. That being said, my DD went through a sleep regression when she was a bit older (9ish months) and the only thing that made it better was time and sticking to the routine. She went from sleeping through the night to waking up twice or more. I was exhausted. I feel for you OP but it will pass

Yeah we might have to look in to getting one for our house. I had read that they weren't really good for babies to sleep in regularly?
He did sleep much better last night to be fair, I didnt try putting him in the Snuzpod, I put him straight in to pur bed. I had to hold him for 40 to make sure he was in a really really deep sleep and he actually did a 4 hour stretch! He sleeps in a sleeping bag @Spacebears one of the zip up ones, he has slept in one of those since he was a couple of days old.