My sons always been a bad sleeper but the past few months have been hell and I’ve tried everything, around 3 months ago he did start sleeping through for around two weeks and since then he has been stuck in this routine.
He can stay awake sometimes 15 hours without a nap, I try everything but he will only have a contact nap at the very most 20 mins during the day and that’s very rare now.
his routine is: normally he’s awake at 8ish and then he’ll have a breastfeed, porridge at 9am after the school run, he’ll have another breastfeed around noon, have a snack around 1pm, have another feed around 2pm, feed again around 3pm after the school, have his tea around 5pm and have a little feed after.. then the night routine starts and he is fine until around 6pm.
I’ll bath him, get him all settled and start to wind down, around 8ish I’ll try my best to feed him to sleep and this is where he gets really really upset, he’ll fight and cry for hours and hours and then eventually around 1am - 2am he’ll fall asleep, wake up around 3am for another feed, fall asleep until 5am for another feed and then it’ll go on like this until it’s hourly until he’s back up for the day.
ive even tried formula feeding him but he still wakes up and he’s even more rattier and fussy off the formula.
I’ve tried changing the routine, tried less feeds, feeding more, dropping them but ultimately he is Bf on demand and it’s absolutely killing me! he’s feeding none stop, everyone keeps telling me it’s a growth spurt but it’s been like this for 3 months and I’m due to go back to work soon I’m going to be dead on my feet! I’m so stressed, my other son was an amazing sleeper, I’ve struggled with my 8 month old since he was born.
i feel like I’m slowly going insane and I’m a shadow of my former self, I never get any down time my whole day is feeding and nighttime is spent trying to get him to sleep until it’s early hours and then I’m up every hour or two.
will he ever outgrow this? None of my other mum friends have been through this, none of me or my partners family members will even mind my son as he’s so awful of a night, the few times he’s ‘stayed out’ they’ve brought him back a few hours later saying they can’t handle it.
im really down :( sorry for the essay I just really needed somewhere to speak x