14 week old not sleeping

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After reading all this Mumsnet reporting their DS/DD sleeping 4,5,6hrs at time makes me feel awful. My 14 week old never slept more than 4hrs at the time and last fee days has been waking prettymuch EVERY HOUR! And the only way he'll go down is by nursing. Last night he spent 1.5hrs on one breast and 1.5 on the other. As soon as I pull away he stirs, wakes and starts moaning. Nothing else calms him....I'm exhausted...
His day naps are loosely based around EASY, around 3naps around 30-45min, in a pram or a sling. He'll rarely settle by himself...
What am I do

I meant to say- what am I doing wrong? Usually he's a very well behaved baby...but not a sleeping one. His typical night (if there is such thing) - feed and sleep by 7pm, wake 10-11 for feed, again around 2, then he rarely sleeps longer than 20-30'min slots until morning. Wake time around 6.30. How can I get him to sleep longer at time?

Hi I unfortunately can't offer any solution but I'm in exactly the same position.

My DD is 12 weeks and generally very calm and easy during the day but she struggles with sleep at night. She used to do a 4 hour sometimes 5 hour stretch followed by 2/3,hourly sleeps the rest of the night. That was ok. But for the last week or so she's only doing 2 hour sleeps at the most. The night before last she was waking every 30/40 mins. I am totally exhausted!

During the day she naps well but only in the pram/sling or on me. She can't self-settle and just gets very worked up when we try.

I have been really trying to work out where I've been going wrong but just seem to go round in circles. I do everything 'right' - we have a bedtime routine, the lights are dim, she feeds well during the evening so is tanked up, she naps well but not too much! Can't figure it out! Any ideas???

I am so glad that I'm not the only one in this position. DS1 has never been a great sleeper but used to manage 4 hour stretches at night - the last few nights I'm lucky if I get 2 hours out if him. I'm thinking its probably some sort of growth spurt and hoping and praying it doesn't last much longer. So no advice but plenty of sympathy.

I too am in the same boat. DD is 14 weeks but has always been like this. She has started napping really well in the day just this week, and is fine from 6.30pm to 1 or 2am but then wakes about every 40-90 mins. I can only get her to sleep by feeding then keeping her on me. I have to go back to work in 6 weeks!

ah we're exactly the same. 15 weeks and dd still wakes 2/3 hours for feeds. Takes her an hour to fed to sleep. I cosleep which keeps me sane.

We have had a few nights where she's only woken a couple of times to feed but they are very rare.

Naps are very much something dd doesnt believe in, even when shes screaming with tiredness its a battle to get her to sleep, then 45 mins is a miracle! I kind of figure this is the hand we've been dealt and she'll grow out of it.

Thanks for all your posts, it does make you feel more sane...especially after reading all these Mums reporting their babies sleeping 5/6/7 hrs per night. It was driving me up the wall, thinking what have I done wrong!
I have now tried to lose 1.30am feed, as he really shouldn't be hungry after 10.30pm big feed. Last night I ended up trying to get him to sleep without breast until 2.45am when I eventually ended up feeding him. He did sleep until 5.45 after that. Fingers crossed we can stick to 3 night feeds