Hello!
Sorry for the long post:
I have an 18 week old little boy and could do with a bit of advice.
Our routine is as follows:
6.30pm - Bath & pj's, bottle (of EBM), into his cot and left to settle himself which he does by 7/7.15pm
He then wakes about 11pm for a feed and goes straight back down no re settling required.
He does the same at 1am.
Our prooblem then comes at 3am when he wakes and seems to go back down okay but within 15 minutes starts moaning and thrashing about, looses his dummy and eventually gets cross and cries.
I put his dummy back in or shh and pat and he stops for a very short period and then starts again.
I change his nappy incase this is bothering him, I give him more boob but nothing seems to be helping him get back to sleep properly.
It's been the case for quite a few weeks and I am aware of the 4 month sleep regression but don't understand how we can improve things as he can self settle, he does it for his daytime naps and bedtime.
His day time napping is good too, I give up trying to get him to sleep about 6am and he goes back for a nap about 8/9 for about 45mins then between 10 and 11 he has his big morning nap for about 2-2.5 hours and then he will have another hour about 4pm and then back to 6.30pm bathtime routine.
I'm back working part time, my husband works shifts and it's all rather exhausting.
He's Breast fed, we try and give him expressed milk in a bottle for his bedtime feed so we know he is full up and to practise with a bottle for when i'm at work, but he doesn't always take the bottle, he prefers boob so often he just has boob and those nights aren't any different so it can't be the bottle making him gassy!
He's a big baby and very active so we have introduced baby rice in the daytime which he loves but this also hasn't changed anything.
Any advice welcome.
I'm not prepared to let him cry for any length of time.
Thank you x