SLEEP REGRESSION part 2...Roll up, roll up folks! Swap tales of woe, ideas, enjoy solidarity and get support here

[cakebaby]

Thought I'd start a new thread as I couldn't see another one yet (will get HQ to delete if already up and running).

Tis good to talk.....

Hello everyone. It is with a heavy heart that I think I have to join your thread! DS has always been a really good sleeper-started sleeping through at 12 weeks and would go down at around 8, dream feed at 10-10.30 then wake up at 6-7am. Until Wednesday night..........Struggling to go to sleep, struggling to stay asleep. Last night he went to bed at 9.00(after a fight), woke up at 10. Would normally feed back to sleep (I know,I know) but last night it was more rock-in-my-arms-until-they-fell-off to sleep. Woke up at 4-like WIDE awake. Took an hour to go back to sleep. Woke again at 5.30- fed him and as long as he was actually on the boob would sleep. He is still there.
What's happened???????? He's been dribbling loads and ear batting so he's teething but the gel didn't really seem to help. Is this sleep regression? I'm not sure I really understand what it is??? Sorry but don't have the energy to read the whole thread!

Hi all
Just popping back to tell you dd slept a 12 hour stretch

Not really!!

There were only 3 wake ups but the new thing is awake time from 1.30 to 3.30... Nice

Well fellow sufferers, one problem appears solved another is created!!

Ds is going down without a murmur at 7ish sleeping til roughly 1 which is great as that is becoming a quick 15/20 min re-settle/ boob & then he is going back to sleep til 4.30 - brilliant I hear you say apart from 4.30 has become the time to get up & start the day!!!! I know I shouldn't be complaining as 90min wake ups were god awful but I am still completely knackered not even lunch time & I've been up 6 hours!!! Help!!!

Booville3- We now have a 4.30 waker so -just in case it helps-we will be spending the bank holiday fitting the thickest bloody blackout blinds you can but. There will not be light.

Boo you have every right to complain! 4.30 is ridiculously early... I hope it improves soon!

No changes here, DS sleeps nice 3h stretches once in bed with me, although tonight was a bit unsettled.

His new thing today is he wouldn't have his morning nap. He did fall asleep for about 5 mins, but once woke up has been wide awake. And now snoozing on boob

Not sure if his teething is to blame, it seems to have eased off a bit although no teeth yet? How long does it take for them to cut through once they have more intense symptoms? Can it stop and then restart later??

cute we had the intense symptoms for 2 weeks until the little blighter finally appeared

Enjoy the shopping nickyeds unfortunately already all blacked out at mine only option left = soundproofing!!!!

2 weeks??!!!

Eggboxes are good for soundproofing!

Egg boxes????

Hello! I was hoping I'd never have to join this thread, but here I am

Dd is 19 weeks tomorrow and she's been sleeping terribly the past three nights. A couple of weeks ago she started sleeping from 8pm - 11pm then woke up for a feed, and went back to sleep right through until 6am. Then for the past week or so she started waking again at 3am (I put this down to getting towards weaning stage and I just assumed she was waking because she was hungrier than usual. How wrong I was!!) The first two nights she woke every hour from 8pm - 3am, then every 30 minutes from 3-6am. Last night it was every 30 minutes for the whole night. She's always been a very happy baby, and slept very well and I've been extremely lucky until now. It's hit me very hard

I've not read much in to it, only really the details about why it's happening and possibly how long it could last for. She sleeps in a Bednest attached to my side of the bed, and coincidentally she started waking the night after I started to implement a new bedtime routine. I used to bath her in the morning as it was easier for us, and she would sleep downstairs from 8ish and we would take her upstairs at 11pm. I started bathing her at night, then feeding before or after depending on when she wanted a bottle, and putting her down to sleep at 8 with the monitor on. I have a Tomy starlight projector thing that I usually put on to help her sleep, or some classical music on my phone. When she wakes up I will either feed her depending if she's hungry (most of the time she's not interested in the bottle) or I put the starlight thing on for the music and give her a dummy which usually sends her back to sleep for half an hour.

Is there anything I should be doing to help this? Am I doing anything wrong when getting her back to sleep. Eg. Should I stop with the music and dummy or just carry on as normal? It's all so confusing!

I've now accepted the fact it's going to carry on for a while. Just trying to remember its a good thing as it means she's learning new skills. Will keep repeating that when I'm losing the will to live. for you all!

cute yes afraid it was 2 weeks...BUT...
Last night, the day after the first tooth finally came through, she slept a SIX hour stretch between 1-7am!!
I feel like Spider-Man with my super non tired refreshed senses!

Ps disclaimer: nothing different other than arrival of tooth and fully aware now I've written it in black and white she will have me up all night tonight

cake

ear infection and high temps here have actually had a few longer ie 3 hour stretches buy assuming just cos she feels like crap. she hates calpol and her antibiotics so we are having lots of battles to force them down

Welcome Felix! Every 30 mins sounds rough... Have some . If she changed after you changed the routine if revert back to morning bath just to rule it out... Hope it won't last long for you!

Cakeis - that was actually my secret hope I thought that maybe he has actually improved but his teeth are bothering him, so he's sleeping worse than he would and that's why I don't see any improvement IYSWIM? Time will show I guess!

Ouch Keep, ear infection sounds horrible, your poor DD! Can you express some milk and add meds into the bottle?

I'd revert back that was supposed to say, you stupid phone!

Sigh....was just a fluke - back to 10,12,1,4 awake till 5, 6
Pah

Cough cough cough cough cough cough sick cough cough cough cough sick cough cough repeat ad infinitum.....

Fever & snot city, ds slept on my chest for 3 hrs whilst I reclined on pillows, is that really bad (he's 8 months)? He's about an inch taller from all the snufflebabe on his feet.

zero sleep for me last 2 nights.

Bah

cake my dd is currently napping on me too. she's been sick as well.

bah when will I get 4 hours on a row

cake your triumphant post made me properly LOL!!! I really thought you'd cracked it. Poor ds is horribly poorly. Currently picking up more bad habits as he's asleep on me with a boob in mouth (him not me). Anything goes when they're ill, right?

keep ..... so hard isn't it? But it won't be forever

Have a , everyone. All gone to shit here too. Cold and cough still in evidence after a fortnight. Bottom two teeth now through but their appearance has made no difference to rubbish sleep. Up 4 times after 10 last night, longest stretch of sleep 2 hours, awake 4.50 - 6am. I now seem to be permanently on the mattress in her room as there's no point in going back to bed. I've got in the bad habit of getting her in with me after feeds as I can't cope with the amount of screaming I get if I try to put her in the cot. Now realising that this has basically undone all the work we've done over the past few weeks but as I'm more knackered and sleep deprived than ever I'm getting less capable of dealing with it. Tried to get her to nap in the cot this morning which she was doing pretty well last week. 45 minutes of screaming later I gave in and got her back up.

Boo I hear you on the early mornings. We regularly have 5.20 or 5.30, it really wears you down. From what I hear the early mornings are hardest to crack but great that you are making progress for the rest of the night.

Cakebaby I think it's fine for an 8mo to sleep on you. I daresay he's too big to squash easily and you'd hear a definite protest if something wasn't right

Keep how is your DD? Hope the antibs are working.

Felix every 30 mins is dire. Most of us have been there. I don't know what to suggest about the bath, if you had decent sleep while you were bathing her in the morning maybe go back to that? As long as your bedtime routine is consistent and predictable it doesn't need to include a bath.

I've booked a gym class for this morning which I now regret. Hope everyone has a decent weekend. Traditional bank holiday skies here...

Death. That is how I feel.

Still battling it out with DD every night - last night was horrendous.

Im no longer sure why she wakes up. I think its just to fucking annoy me and make me feel like shit every day.,

Fucking hell tired thought you'd cracked it

artemis too early for ? Might make the class more enjoyable.