Hello!
My little boy is 6w today and I have noticed this past week his daytime (& night time, actually) sleeping has gone to dog-shite!
He would nap great during the day, feeding every 2 hours (sometimes 1.5hrs), have 30-45 mins awake time whilst I try to burp him, then he would go back down to sleep until his next feed.
He wakes every 2 hours in the night too.
We have a loose bedtime routine of nappy change, bottle, bed for 7:30-8pm and he will settle quite easily and sleep until his next feed which would be 2 hours from his last bottle. He never goes longer than 2 hours between feeds, but I am ok with that. I am not looking to extend this as he is still so young.
But this last week he has been waking hourly in the night (so asleep for 40 mins, wakes for a bottle as nothing else soothes him), and I am exhausted. My partner is a lorry driver so I don't like him getting up in the night to help.
The sleepless nights wouldn't be so bad if he was sleeping in the day and I could try and nap too but he isn't even napping well anymore! He will nap for about 20 mins! Then wake up crying and be unsettled.
Is this just down to him going through his first leap? Really hoping it gets better soon as I am struggling on such little sleep! X