4 month old will not sleep before 12

[Lilannii]

Every night my LO goes to sleep while after a feed at about half 8. But for the last few days he wakes up every hour screaming blue murder. He will only o back to sleep if he nurses or wears himself out from crying. I feel powerless, as I can't help him. This is extremely unlike him. He used to sleep till 12 have a feed and go back down till half four. It is not teething, already tied teething gel. Already tried gripe water. The only thing that sent him to sleep last night was calpol.any suggestions/ ideas welcome

4 month sleep regression, cuddles and feeding and it should settle out again.

Also you can try baby massage incase of any digestive issues, and try and keep calm yourself. Easier said than done, but calm mum,calm baby hopefully.

I have tried baby massage too, nothing seems to work. I am so sick of this. I dread evenings now and don't think I can do this much longer!!! How long does this phase last? I can't even make my dinner as now he doesn't go to sleep till 9pm

My son was like this so i introduced a little play, bath, bottle& bed routine at 4 months and its working brill! The odd night it dosent but 6/7 aint bad.. I make him very active for an hour or so whether its playing, tummy time etc. i then give him a bath with baby bed time bath (when its bath time he knows bed time is near) after bath we settle on the sofa and he has a bottle he normally falls asleep then i take him to bed but other times he fights it so i pop him in his cot And let him fight it out, i stay in the room untill hes asleep ive found within 30-40mins hes flat out!

He use to have a good routine at bedtime which I have kept the same but made it later as he is not sleeping as early as he used to. He has a bath at 6, playtime on his mat till 7, then he has some baby rice for dinner followed by 20 mins of tv for it to settle. After that if he is happy enough to go back on his mat I usually do tummy time for a whole until he wants breastfeeding.