Waking due to hunger or something else??

[Junebug55]

My DS is 3 months old. While he is yet to settle into a proper pattern or routine he does tend to sleep from 8:30pm to 12am ish without fuss. I BF him but have introduced a bottle of formula as his last feed before bedtime. After the first night feed he wakes up crying every 45-60 mins. He is in a swaddle up sleeping bag but kicks and thrashes around and I can only seem to settle him by feeding (occasionally he will take a dummy and go back to sleep for half an hour before the whole thing starts again) does he need feeding that frequently?! Could it be something else waking him? The thrashing and grunting/cries seems like he's got tummy pain, but i thought they were meant to grow out of that by now? It doesnt help hearing friends sharing stories of how their 3mo babies are sleeping amazingly.... I'm so shattered from not getting more than an hours sleep at a time, any advice?? Anything I could be doing differently or is this normal 3mo behaviour?

I remember at that age my little girl was quite similar, grunting, squirming and thrashing around. We thought it could be reflux or trapped wind. Looking back I don’t think it was either of them I think a lot of babies do the same around that age. I lived on broken sleep for months but somehow got through it. Maybe try some gripe water with the last bottle and infacol incase it is wind

Yeah we use infacol and gripe water already but it doesn't seem to be helping with the waking. The thrashing around is so aggressive I'm worried he's going to hurt himself! Hope he grows out of it soon so I can stop being zombie mummy!

Thinking about trying formula in case it is hunger as he always falls asleep on the boob but not the bottle, so maybe he's not getting enough...

My 3 month old is a thrasher too. She likes to fold her legs right back to her face then THUMP them down. This wakes her up then she looks pitifully at me like "Help, sleep please?" She only does this in her sidecar crib, not when she co sleeps. Her 5-7am wind thrashing is different, more wriggly. I basically spend those two hours wrestling her to sleep, feeding, changing nappies and eventually giving up or having her on my shoulder so at least she gets to sleep even if I don't.

So, er, I have no advice. Just exhausted solidarity.

Burritofan, from all your responses on my sling thread and others, I really think we have the same baby! I'm now giving his digestive until 4 months (he's 14 weeks) to sharpen up and stop its early morning shenanigans.

Digestive system*

SecondTimer Baby doppelgängers! This is good – when we discover the magic "how does this baby work?" button we can exchange the secret and get unicorn babies who sleep, windlessly.