So DS is 14 weeks old. I just looked at my sleep tracker app and his longest period of sleep is the same length now as it was when he was ten days old: 3 hours and 10 minutes.
It's not like it improved loads and has now regressed; with the exception of one glorious week of 4-6 hours this is how it's always been.
What on earth is happening? Isn't it meant to be lengthening? My DD's certainly did - she was still unpredictable but it could be as long as 8 hours at this age.
He's combi fed, 90% bf but with one bottle in the early morning from my partner. He sleeps in a Moses basket in our room. He can self settle - I can put him down 'drowsy but awake' and he'll go to sleep (this is not something I've achieved - he's just able to do it by himself). He feeds roughly every 3 hours around the clock. I can cluster feed him in the evenings and that stops his longest sleep being 2 hours but it doesn't push it beyond 4. He naps well in a bouncer chair or a sleepyhead, usually doing one or two 2 hour naps and some 30 minute ones here and there. He was 7lbs 3oz at birth and 38 weeks with no medical issues. He's small (9th percentile) but all of us are, and his weight is tracking.
I have tried: white noise (I sleep better - makes no difference to him), trying an alternate settling method before feeding (he gets v angry), leaving him if just grizzly (he always progresses to crying, doesn't resettle) and dreamfeeding (no lengthening effect, usually wakes up 2 hours after, sometimes wakes up when he would've done without the feed).
Thoughts? Is this normal? I'm not expecting 12 hours here but surely there should be some lengthening happening by now?