16-week old bf babies....what are yours doing?

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Ok, I've been in this movie before but am sure I had booked a sleeper this time around. No-one, however, appears to have told DS. DD1 did not sleep well until she hit three and I cannot bear the thought that I've got that long to go again before I get some kip.
At the minute I am feeding pretty much around the clock at two-hour intervals with a big baby. He was 9lb 4oz at birth and has steadily put on weight. However, while I'd be happy to feed to sleep and co-sleep for part of the night, the problem is that he has reflux and ends up vomitting and in a bit of a state.
I am shattered and curious as to what other babies this age are doing. I was a big fan of Elizabeth Pantley and the No-Cry Sleep Solution first time around, but I don't seem to be making much progress with the boy.
I am not inclined to go down the CC route, and would like to know how others have weathered these kind of sleep storms.

There are two books called the Sleep Easy
Solution and The Baby Sleep Book that are meant to be good as well. There is also an ebook called The Sleep Baby Sleep book and an audio book called The Baby Sleep Solution which friends have recommend too.

i have an 18 week old bf ds. am too tired to post properly. may return later

My 16wk old boy has just in the last week or 10 days gone from sleeping 7.30 - 6am with one feed at either 11pm or 2-3am to wanting a feed at 10.30, 2am, 4.30am and after the last one refuses to settle well. Also he has been fighting daytime naps much more than usual. We put down to upheaval over christmas and were hoping it would settle down again this week but I'm beginning to think we may have just hit the 4 month sleep regression/growth spurt. Oh joy!

nights have recently degenerated so much that i no longer have the mental capacity to count how many times he woke in the night or how many times i fed him or at what time. I'm surviving by doing a bit of cosleeping and DH letting me have lie ins. DH is now back at work. I may not survive.

At least i have hope that things will improve as I think our current problem are mainly caused by DS's blocked nose. Surely it will get better eventually? (He's had it over 2 weeks)

Sorry no useful advice, just sympathy as a fellow sufferer!

Have you used saline drops and a nasal aspirator?

yeah, doesn't seem to help much though, the snot is too far back, out of sight but you can hear it! Sleeping more upright helps - we've tilted the cot a bit but may need to put him in his pushchair semi-reclined

Are using books under one end of the cot?

19 week old bf DD hit and has decided to hang around in the 4 month sleep regression. I assume that's what it is anyway.

She was stretching between feeds and I sometimes got a magical 4 hours, now I feel honoured if its 2 hours.

She also finds it harder to settle and is more wriggly in bed (we co-sleep). The settling is the worst, we used to do bath, feed, cuddle, sleep flawlessly and now its bath, feed, cry, cuddle, cry, feed, cry, hand to DH to bounce to - finally - sleep.

I keep saying the best advice there is - it is a phase and it will pass. I do need to move bedtime earlier so she is not overtired, and get daytime naps sorted to help it along though. If I was not so tired, I might be able to manage this.

Hello OP! My 15 week-old EBF DD2 has gone from one or two night wakings (after an hour of being fed to sleep in the evening) to refusing to sleep without my nipple in her mouth. I am a very reluctant co-sleeper (or should that be co-waker?!). During the day, she sleeps only in the sling. Car, pram, bouncers all leave her cold. Don't know whether that reassures you...

The reflux will be making everything so much harder. You have every sympathy from me!

17 week old ds will occasionally do 4 hours, fairly often 3 hours, mostly 2 or 1.5. The frustrating thing is I'm not actually sure it's always hunger as he seems to fall asleep again so quickly (ie after a minute or so). thankfully he is mostly very easy to settle now after a very shaky start.

God, I hear you all ladies, my 14 week old started to do well with sleeping then about 4 weeks ago it all went caput.. it's a nightmare... what's the 4 month sleep regression? Not looking forward to that.. Everyone said it got easier at 3 months... so not true for me.. Good luck! x

Hello! Sorry, DS has a cold and has been miserable all day. Will post later when I have ability to think straight, but in the meantime the support is invaluable.

Hi. I am another with an 18 week bf boy. He has a cold and I haven't slept more than 4 hours in past 48. Feel like I'm going crazy. He just wails and wails and will only sleep upright on mebeing rocked. I'm so unhappy.

Before this and for past 4 weeks he wakes at least 5 times a night and will not nap in day. He will not go to sleep before 10 pm. Before that he was going 9-4 and then 430-7 ish.

You have my sympathies let's hope we all get some rest v soon.

DS is 16 wks. He's mainly bf (He gets one small ff mid morning as I have childcare for a few hrs).

He feeds 7am, 10am (formula), 11.30 (bf top up before nap), 1.30-2ish, 5.30, 10pm, 4-5am.

He sleeps 6pm to 7am (with breaks for the 2 feeds I mentioned) and naps 1 hr morning and afternoon and 2 hrs at lunchtime.

He is just like that.- I actually called the HV as I was worried he sleeps too much. The only things that might have helped (and opinions on this vary- I have no idea really) were that we have v consistent bedtime routine and he's been in own cot from Day 1. Again though, we could probably do this because he was a good sleeper, rather than us making him one by so doing.

However, I am sure the 4 month sleep regression will bite me on the arse within hours of typing this. If not, then it's bigger, meaner cousin, the 9 mth sleep regression definitely will.