3 month old waking all night!!

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Please help I'm going crazy, I have a 3 month old who is waking every hour through the night. I can't just leave him to have a moan and maybe send himself back to sleep as he is waking up my 2 year old and he is much much harder to get back to sleep.

The problem isn't getting the baby back to sleep its that it has to be me as the only thing that will settle him quietly is BF. He's not hungry everyone he wakes but that is all he wants, so DP can't help me.

He isn't at all interested in s dummy. Please help I can't keep getting up 12 times a night! And I find myself dreading the start of the day because then he is just awake all day and I also have s 2 year old to deal with. It's no wonder I'm going grey 😩

If you’ve excluded physical causes (hunger, pain, fever etc) then perhaps all he needs is a cuddle/ a good swaddle in lieu?

Personally I’d be tempted to stick DS in bed with me although that is NOT recommended. Baby cuddles are the best

I love to cuddle him but I need some proper sleep, more than 45 mins at a time. I would put him in bed with us but it makes me too anxious and I don't sleep.x

If you are bf-ing, then look into safe co-sleeping. Frequent wake ups are pretty normal and it sounds like he is going through a growth spurt.

Breastfeeding isn't just about hunger or thirst, it's about closeness and comfort - that's why he doesn't want a dummy or your DP. At this age, all he wants is you.

Mine was like this for a month and it turned out to be cmpa and I had to cut dairy from my diet. I do cosleep a bit as there’s no other way to get any sleep but I’d rather not. You have my sympathy because hourly waking is horrible to cope with x

Oh girrrl, I feel you. Sounds like the 4 month sleep regression. My baby started waking up a million times a night around 3.5 months and I thought I'd lose my mind (I don't even have a toddler like you). When leap 4 came to an end and he was still waking multiple times in 20/45 minutes cycles, i decided that I needed to bring him to bed with us. I haven't looked back since he's sharing.

*since bed sharing.

So we were up about 15 times last night m, eurgh. I might try miving his cot right up to the bed tonight see if that helps.
He has never liked swaddling so I can't do that, and it's probably too late to do now anyway.
I don't know how much more of this I can take, it makes it even worse when there is s peacefully sleeping DP next to you unaware😩