I am completely exhausted and getting such anxiety about what to do with my 12 week old. He is breastfed but since birth we have given him one bottle of formula before bed in the hopes that this will help him to sleep better. He would normally have this bottle around 10pm and his first stretch of sleep would normally be the longest, about 3 hours. After that it might be a 2 hour stretch followed by hourly stretches.
His sleep started to improve a couple of weeks ago and he even did 11-4/4-7. It was amazing! But then he had his first jabs and it’s been pretty awful since then.
I’ve been reading that at this point they should have a bedtime between 8-9 so we tried that but then found his longest stretch of sleep was done by midnight and he was up every hour. Exhausting.
Do we persevere and stick to the earlier bedtime in the hope it improves his sleeping overall or do we go back to the 10pm bedtime that allows us more sleep??
Just to add I’ve been trying so hard with daytime naps and wake windows but find it incredibly hard to do if you’re trying to actually live your life and that has also been adding to the anxiety!