My baby is 7 weeks old and we are at our wits end with lack of sleep. He has never slept well since he was born.
For the first 3 weeks he would sleep for 1.5-2 hour stretches at night. Since then he has been incredibly restless all night. He sometimes sleeps well for the first half of the night, waking approx every 2 hours but sleeping soundly in between. The second half of the night is awful, and sometimes it is all night.
He is breastfed, and I feed him until he falls asleep, wind him, offer him more milk and then once he's finished I wind him again and cuddle him until he's asleep. He sleeps in a Next2me bedside crib. He settles for approx 10 mins and then thrashes his arms and legs around, grunts and strains and then starts crying. Sometimes all he needs is a hand on his chest or a finger to suck on (I've tried a dummy and he hates it), and he will fall asleep again, but 10 mins later the restlessness and grunting starts again. Often he has wind and needs taking out of the crib to be winded. He's then wide awake and takes ages to settle again.
He sleeps well in the day, although won't sleep flat on his back. I've bought a baby bouncer chair and he will sleep in that happily. Obviously I can't really have him sleeping in that in the night! Ive propped the head end of the crib up incase he is getting refux but its made no difference. Ive also tried swaddling (no help). He will sleep better on his side but quickly rolls onto his back and wakes up. The only way he will sleep soundly at night is to sleep in my bed next to me on his side but I really don't want to do this.
Does anyone have any advice?