Sleep regression. Anyone else want to join!? Sleepless mums!

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Currently going through what I believe could be a four month sleep regression? For ages my son slept really well didn't wake up in the night and if he did it was for one bottle then slept. Most nights slept 9:30pm till about 8am next day.
Has alllllllllll gone out the window the past week 🤣 I always knew the good sleep wouldn't last long and I appreciated it when it did but it's kinda making me feel extremely tired now including my partner🥱
How long does it last?? Will it go on for months?? Will I ever have a 8-8 again? 😥😥🤣
The strange thing is if he wakes up. As soon as I place him onto my bed and pillow he sleeps. So if it was a sleep regression surely he would wake also in my bed?

@StickyStickyStickStickSong lo is still asleep I don't know why I'm not!
Ahhhhh you gotta do what you gotta do🤣🤣 have a good sleep!😉😉

How’s everyone doing?

Good first half of nigh here. Terrible second!

2nd good night in a row- 6.30-9.30 then a feed back to sleep. Couple more wakes for feeds but 2 hour blocks. Can't quite believe up. Up at 4.30 again unfortunately tho. Currently having a pram nap cos I refuse to walk outside in the dark at 6.30am. Still not convinced this is the end it'll take more than two good nights for me to relax

@Mytigerhasstripyfeet oh no did you manage to get some sleep the first half?

@ayylauren oh fantastic! Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Yes slept 11-1am and then 1.30-3am. Then he only slept for 2x 30m periods until just now. He's chuckling to himself on his sleep now, the little monster!

Got more sleep than partner because I have a cold so he kindly did more of the night awake.

How did everyone else get on?

The worst night so far for us. She went to bed at 7.30, woke up at 10.30 and didn’t go back to sleep until 3am! Let me show you an exhaustive list of everything we tried:
Patted and stroked in her cot
Cuddled and rocked
Fed
Put back in bed, more patting and stroking
More cuddling and walking around the bedroom
Nappy change
Gave Calpol in case she was in pain
Cuddled her in our bed
Dummy
Fed again
Tried to get her to sleep in my arms whilst I propped myself up to stay awake
More co-sleeping (co-crying in this case)

We were at a total loss. By 2.45am I put her in her bed and let her cry for 5 mins, she got pretty loud but was calming down, it was intermittent for a few mins and then she went to sleep.

Up again at 5am, fed again and into our bed where she slept until 8.30am. Thankfully my son also had a lie in so I managed a few hours overall.

@ayylauren hope it's progress for you and not a fluke like it was for me ☹️
I put him in with me at midnight last night and he slept through til 7 with only a couple of minor unsettled moments. But I really need him to take to his own room now 🙏🏻
Still going to persevere as much as I can!! 🤞

Oh god @LCF2021 that's awful. But interesting she finally went to sleep on her own?

I think I'll be chomping my way through the huge toblerone today, which my MIL brought with her.

@Mytigerhasstripyfeet I think by that point she was so knackered that she went off to sleep. If there’s a repeat performance tonight I’ll probably put her down and leave her earlier on, which I know is frowned upon at this age but if she’s crying on me anyway then what’s the point?!!

@StickyStickyStickStickSong me too, there's absolutely no way I'm getting excited about this My LO is 6 months end of Jan early Feb and we planned to get him in his own room then but if he's still going to wake up multiple times a night I don't see the point??

Well, she managed a 30 minute nap this morning and an hour later she started screaming again and she ended up falling asleep in the carrier as I got my son’s lunch ready.
I’m questioning the sanity of my parents…why did they do this 3 times?!! 3 kids…no ta.

Oh my goodness @LCF2021! Sending hugs, coffee and cake your way.

Mine was bed at 9 but up every hour until 2.30, then 4.30-6am where nothing worked until he got tired enough to sleep again at 6am with me stroking his face and patting his chest, he tried to get up at 7.45am again and I was having none of it, boobed him and then we both slept till 9.20... we are supposed to be moving him to his room in the next week or so, not sure whether to go cold turkey or not as there is a double bed in there

@LCF2021 oh no it's even worse when they're overtired cos they fight sleep even more hope she improves for you and your day gets easier

@Sneezymcsneezy I’d try him in his room first and see how he goes. He may sleep better in there with extra space in the cot and without any potential disturbances of you going to bed or moving in bed. Sometimes I wonder if that does disrupt them. I also hate sneaking up to bed, creeping around in the pitch black…it’s when my clumsiness really comes to life!!

@LCF2021 completely pitch black you reckon? Right now we have a night light on all the time but you can't really see anything, I can just about do a nappy change but can't see the front or back of it (have to feel) 😅

@Sneezymcsneezy We go for pitch black as that definitely helped my son’s sleep, blackout blinds and all. We use a smart bulb in the lamp in his room so we can make it really dim using our phones so if he needs a nappy change or medicine in the night we don’t need bright lights on. It’s only now he’s 2.5 that he doesn’t mind a little light on as we use a Gro clock for him so he knows when it’s wake up time in the morning (works a charm!).
We’ll do the same when we move our daughter into her room in January.

@Sneezymcsneezy Can recommend Bloc blackout blinds, we’ve put them in all of the bedrooms and the make the room really really dark!

The one night I thought might be a bit better....she had a wee accident!!!

@JimHalpertsPA oh no hope you managed to settle her!! We had an explosive pop earlier today, so bad that a vest ended up in the bin

@ayylauren oh no!! That sounds... explosive!!

DD still hasn't slept since the wee accident. She is wide awake, no signs of tiredness. I on the other hand am a zombie.

Awake since 1.30am here...

Oh @Sneezymcsneezy that sounded like our Tuesday night! Are you ok?
Mine wasn’t great. She woke at 10.45pm, 1am, 3:30am, 6am and 7.30am for the day. I fed each time as I couldn’t be bothered attempting to settle. Sadly my eldest is poorly so he was waking up in between. I took myself to bed at 8.30pm so my longest stretch was sleep was under 2 hours

@LCF2021 passed him onto husband but couldn't sleep 🥲 I'm just totalling up the hours and he can't of had more than 8... How is that enough?? My longest stretch was 1.5 hours, we both have covid so I'm guessing the baby has it too explaining the shocking sleep maybe? He's so happy during the day though 😔

@Sneezymcsneezy sorry to hear you all have Covid I hope you're not too bad

@Sneezymcsneezy So sorry to hear you have covid. I would say rest up but of course, that’s not particularly easy. Just do what you can and get help where you can

Late to the party but can I join please? 4.5 mo DD is waking every 2 hours in the night, an improvement on every hour and a half about 3 weeks ago. Bedsharing to try and get more sleep but it doesn't always work as I sometimes struggle to drop back off to sleep when she's finished feeding. I have considered just sleeping with my boobs out so she can help herself but the one night I did that I was so lopsided in the morning and the bigger boob was rock hard so I panicked about giving myself mastitis! One plus is that I managed to book my covid booster at 2am without having to queue on the website