Any advice or just hand holding please...
LO is 15 weeks old and used to be champion sleeper since birth, only waking to feed (he's FF only as I'm unable to BF). Until recently he was starting to go 4-5 hours between feeds at night and I was feeling a right smug cow very please with his progress.
Then he started scratching at the insides of his Moses basket in his sleep and waking himself up so we moved him to his cot bed in his own room as ours is too small.
Since then he been waking every 1 or 1 1/2 hours throughout the night and crying. He's not hungry, he's doesn't to want to play, he's just awake. The cycle goes LO put to bed asleep after a feed, hour and a bit later wakes up, dummy placed in mouth with LO going to sleep instantly and spitting dummy out, hour and a bit later wakes up etc.
Do we need to try and teach him to self soothe? At least once per night I hear him cry, get out of bed and by the time I've got there I find him asleep and sucking his hand. I've tried letting him moan for a couple of minutes but that usually escalates into a wail.
By 5.00am it's too much so DH and I bring LO into bed with us so we can stick the dummy in without having to get up, which does help all 3 of us sleep.
I'm sure this has been covered many times, but my brain is custard as it's been at least 2 weeks since I've had anything approaching a decent nights kip.