3 month old waking up every hour screaming

[Clumsymumsy22]

I write this completely exhausted so apologies for typos and if anything doesn't make sense

Baby is 14 weeks today (15th June) and was getting really good at sleeping. She got into the habit of only waking once yhrough the night for a feed and a week ago she even slept yet 1930-0700 without waking at all. Since then however she has started waking twice a night for feeds, and tonight she has woken every hour screaming, as if she is in pain but she falls asleep as soon as I pick her up.

After going to bed (I will explain further down) at 1930ish last night, she has woken at 2200, 0040 for which I fed her on both, 0120, 0220, 0320, 0340 after which I brought her downstairs and am writing this post.

We have a routine where she goes to bed between 7/8. The last few days she has also been waking up at 9 and is really difficult to get back to sleep. We're not in a routine with naps in the day but she does go down for a few hours over the course of the day, though the other day it seemed like she'd only slept for maybe 2 hours in the day and was still wide awake at 9pm. The last few days my hay fever has also played a part img exhaustion as it's worse at night and I struggle to get back to sleep.

Last night at about 1900 she started wheezing after her dad passed her to me. It was the first time she did this and I called 111 about it and she slept in the Moses basket we have downstairs (so she can stay down with us during the day and she knows her crib is for nighttime on,y). Could this wheezing be linked to her screaming every hour? I'm taking her to the go today because of the wheezing and I'll ask about the waking while I'm there but can anyone offer any advice please as I don't feel I can function on so little sleep

And she's bottle fed

How dod it go at the GP?

She sounds over tired and that she could do with more active help to go to sleep in the daytime.

I would suggest awake time (between waking from 1 nap to going to sleep in the next nap) to be 1h at the moment. This may stretch to 90 minutes maximum once out of the over tired cycle.

If over tired, you will need to offer lots of extra help to get her to sleep. My sure-fire recommendation would involve a dummy and a bouncy chair. Also very frequent feeds (more feeds per day) and limited awake time.

• baby wakes. Look at the time. 1h from now, baby is back on bouncy chair.
• Offer a bottle
• Napoy check / floor time / tummy time
• 1h from waking, back into bouncey chair and get yourself a cup of tea and the TV remote (you may not be moving for a while)
• Place bouncer on floor in front of sofa, give baby a dummy to comfort suck, put your feet in the bouncer and start rhythmic bouncing.
• be completely relentless about it. Keep putting dummy back in so baby can suck to get to sleep (natural comfort to baby) and not cry, keep the rhythmic bouncing going non-stop, steady speed and velocity. Just keep going.
• it might take relentless bouncing/dummy for 30 minutes until baby is asleep. It might take 10 minutes. JUST. KEEP. GOING.
• once baby is asleep, slow and stop bouncing
• if baby makes any kind of grimace or movement, restart bouncing and reinsert dummy when needed.
• baby wakes up - look at the time

.. Then it starts all over again

• wake
• feed
• play
• 60m from waking, start working on getting baby to go to sleep
• Asleep 60-90m from waking

Nap lengths of 30-45 minutes are normal.

Continue this repeated cycle of events all day long.

I've started doing something similar today. She slept for about 2 hours earlier this afternoon and a little this morning and she's teething (which may have something to do with the screaming?) so she's kind of cried herself to sleep while I was trying to soothe and feed her by alternating between a bottle and a teething ring with a bit of bonjella on it. Know it's not going to be a brilliant sleep for her but at least it will be sleep, and she's still on me (I write this with her in my arms) so I'm hoping with my comfort she falls into a better sleep?

Gp recommended steaming to get her airways clear, but if we have another bad night to go back and he'll prescribe an inhaler. This was before I saw a tooth coming through. She's been sucking her fists and dribbling for about 2 weeks (I remember because I had a dentist appointment when she was 10 weeks and I asked about it and the dentist laughed and said she's too young), so unless she wheezes again I'll see how she is once she's cut the tooth?

Thank you for your support

Hi there...
I wondered what happened for your little one @Clumsymumsy22? Did you discover what it was about? Xx