My 15 week old has always been a terrible sleeper, but until about 10 weeks was doing solid 5 hour stretches from about 9pm and then up every couple of hours until about 8am. Manageable.
Fast forward to now and for the last 5 weeks we have had terrible sleep - last night may have been the worst. He was down at 7.45, woke at 9.30. Wouldn't be resettled until 11.30, then was up at 2.10, then 3.30, then 4.15 and then every 40 mins-1hr since until he's woken up properly at 6.45. We co-slept from 4.15 but he's normally in A Snuzpod thing. I'm dead on my feet and feel like after 5 weeks of this I can no longer tell myself it's just a phase?!
The only advice I got from the health visitor was break the feed to sleep association. He's no longer fed to sleep in the day or for bedtime, but overnight the only thing that will get him back off is feeding him (we're breastfeeding), even if he's only been down for 40 mins. Naps have improved since we stopped feeding to sleep, going from a max of 40 mins to sometimes quite long naps of up to 2.5 hours, often in the afternoon. Is this part of the problem, should I be waking him from naps earlier?
He has reflux but is on ranitidine and seems relatively controlled. He is teething at the moment and did his longest stretch last night after calpol and anbesol but I obviously can't give that every wake up, or every night, and that hasn't been the problem for the whole of the last 5 weeks. He's a very active baby and gets really frustrated at himself throughout the day - he's rolling already and is desperate to be mobile.
Not sure what I'm hoping for from this - any tips really? Should I not let him nap as long? Do I need to preserve with not feeding him to sleep during night wake ups, even though he generally then gets upset and ends up more awake and harder to settle? Any miracle teething solutions?
I'm dead on my feet after 5 weeks of not really sleeping longer than 2 hours. Do I just need to suck it up and except this is how it is now?
Thank you!