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Any reason why it’s been different every night?

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Rach1311 · 24/06/2018 10:49

My 15 week old has been an ok-ish sleeper since about 8 weeks old. From then until about 12 weeks he’d go to sleep at 8pm, some nights he’d be up at 1ish and 5ish and then sleep til around 8am, some nights he’d only wake once in 12 hours.

Since he hit 12 weeks every night has been different. We maybe get a couple of decent nights of only one wake up, then he’d go back to two or three. We’ve just returned off holiday where he slept brilliantly every single night (sleeping 7/8 hours straight through, feeding and then back off for another 3) but since we got back a few days ago he’s been horrendous. Not only waking up 4/5 times in the night but also taking up to an hour to settle.

He’s such a comfort sucker, he’s breast fed but won’t take a dummy so he uses me a lot of the time to get back to sleep, all of his naps are fed to sleep too.

The time difference was only an hour so I can’t see it affecting him that much?! Is there another reason why every night is different and why he’s suddenly become so unsettled?

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Moonflower12 · 24/06/2018 10:55

Argh! the dreaded 4 month sleep regression- when everyone believes they have 'broken'their baby.

It is s developmental phase as they take on so much new information, they struggle to process it all and need the boob for comfort but also for energy and all the proteins to produce the neurone pathways.

It is akin to when you have something on your mind and can't sleep.

It doesn't last forever.

MammaBell · 24/06/2018 13:08

Hey my DD is 14 and half weeks and we're beginning to experience the same. Although she's BF she does take a dummy but when she's fussy it's like a game she wants you to sit there holding it in while she holds my finger and drifts off till I lift my hand away and she starts to wriggle again and wake up Hmm. I'm thinking similar to PP that it's to do with their development at this stage. It's so frustrating though as I'm lone parenting for the past month while my husband works away Sad. But her naps have been all over the place this week and for some she needs lots of 'coaxing' to get her to settle, then other times she's dropped off sound asleep in her baby gym lol.

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