DS had always been a good sleeper. Note the use of the word 'had'. When he was born the first week was horrendous but then he settled into a routine and, after a dream feed at 11, would sleep quite happily until 3, have a feed then settle back down until 7 when he was up for the day. At 10 weeks, he dropped the 3am feed and slept through quite happily.
At 17 weeks we hit the four month sleep regression. He had just learned how to roll over and would wake himself up and then spend hours shouting away to himself, refusing a bottle and refusing to sleep. Despite my wishes and best intentions, we started to get him into our bed as he would immediately fall back asleep.
After about 3 weeks he righted himself and went back to sleeping through, however now, at 6 months, everything has gone to pot once again. He's sleeping less than he did as a newborn, his common routine now is to wake up at 3/4am and REFUSE to go back to sleep until 6am. He will then doze off for an hour before waking up fresh as a daisy. He then has his breakfast at 7, plays, has a bottle at 9 and naps for an hour at about 9/10am. He will wake up, play some more, then have lunch at around 11.30, play again until 1.30 then sleep for an hour, have a bottle when he wakes at 2pm, then stay awake until his bath/bed routine which starts at 7pm and consists of bath, pjs, cuddle, bottle then put down to sleep (on his own but in the living room with us). At 11 we will give him his dream feed, which he often sleeps through, but then will wake as we change his nappy. He can then be awake until about 12.30am before dozing off for three hours and the whole cycle begins again.
PLEASE tell me this is just a phase. It's only been a week but already I find myself constantly on the verge of tears and just not enjoying being his mam any more.