Hello everyone
My 3 month old DS is habitually waking around 2/3am every night. He is mainly BF, with a bottle of formula introduced around 6:45pm as the last feed of the day. He goes to sleep without any fuss every night around 7pm. He has set this bedtime himself as he is shattered by then and cannot stay awake any longer. I dreamfeed around 10/10:30pm when I go to bed and he sleeps through until around 2/3am when he starts to grunt/moan and wakes me up. I used to get up and BF at this time but over the last few weeks have been giving him a dummy and he goes back to sleep until about 5/6am. He never wakes up crying so I know he is not waking up out of hunger. Over the last week or so this has progressed into him waking from midnight every 30 mins/hourly until around 5/6am when I get up. I get up every time and give him his dummy. There have been some occasions when he has slept through to about 5/6am which is fantastic and gives me false hope that he is starting to sleep longer. I can take the 5am wake-up if the other ones throughout the night stopped. I don’t know if this is an early 4 month sleep regression? Also relevant he has started to be a terrible feeder, not really wanting to eat much at all until around lunchtime. I feel like I spend all morning battling with him to BF. I introduced a bottle of expressed breastmilk a couple of times a week at 7 weeks old so I know it’s nothing to do with that. He’s started to nap better during the day, I take him out for a walk once in the morning and once in the afternoon where he sleeps for around 1:30-2 hours each time. I’m due to go back to work in a few weeks and work 12 hour shifts. I’m terrified that he will be still be waking me up all night long and not sure how I’ll cope. If anyone has any ideas on what I could change I would be very grateful 