I know I really shouldn’t moan because my 4.5 month old DS sleeps quite well during the night. He goes to sleep at around 8:30pm/9pm and will sleep till around 7:15am with one feed at some point during the night, usually 3am ish.
So for his age I think he sleeps well and we’ve been lucky so far but for about three weeks now I can’t sleep myself. It takes me ages to go to sleep, up to 2 hours, then I wake around every hour during the night. The broken sleep is exhausting me and I’m finding is so so frustrating because it isn’t even baby that’s keeping me awake. I think the reason for this is that DS went on a ‘nursing strike’ and now refuses to latch on unless sleepy so I’m constantly checking him to see if he’s starting to suckle and shuffle about before he wakes up so I can quickly latch him on, otherwise he will cry and won’t latch so I have to go and warm up some expressed milk downstairs. I feel like I’ve become that used to waking myself up during the night that it’s like a habit but I am ridiculously tired and it’s making me feel poorly. I also end up feeling angry and frustrated with myself when I can’t get back to sleep so these emotions keep me awake as well. Any advice please?