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

[pinkgin1]

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?

Merry Christmas!!! I've told all my family members to bring their best ear plugs, they've been warned! Also @LCF2021 make sure other people hold and look after your baby, make the most of the extra hands! My mum has somehow managed to put mine to nap during his most fussiest periods and I still don't know how, honestly people don't mind help give you a break. I will definitely be handing baby over to parents again so I can have a lie in once he's awake

@LCF2021 thinking tomorrow will be a long day for us too. Glad I can bring DS upstairs to feed and have a break. My family adore him to the extent of bickering over whose "turn" it is to have him. It gets a bit much sometimes.

I'm upstairs rocking mine after another wake up listening to the rest of the family chatter downstairs. Pretty tired from having to think of all the things that need to be done so Christmas goes smoothly, and making sure they happen.

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a great day tomorrow and fingers crossed for some sleep tonight! Our car journey went well (hurrah!) but am resigning myself to basically holding/feeding lo all night as she's having none of the travel cot! so far...think she's managed a grand total of 15 mins in there so far!

40 mins into a screamy wake up here. Trying not to feed as otherwise we end up in a constant cycle. Lots of patting, cuddling, stroking…I’m SO tired

My DS had that bloody 7pm nap again 🙄 tried my best to keep him awake!

Now he's currently bouncing on DH lap. He seems to have more patience than me tonight . Said he must be waiting for Santa 🤣🤣
All 9 months of him...

Merry Christmas to my fellow sleep deprived mums. Hope everyones LOs gave them the gift of at least an hour or two's sleep!

Merry Christmas all! DD spent most of the night sleeping in my arms as I kept falling asleep feeding…ooops! According to my watch I managed 7 hours broken sleep but I’m not convinced 😂

My LO went down at midnight last night in the end 🙄 and we were up at 7 for Santa!
I'm hoping he sleeps well tonight!🤞

Merry Christmas ladies xxxx

Late night for us tonight as we’ve been with family. My 2.5 year old is only just going to bed and I’m feeding DD to sleep. Here’s hoping today has tired her out!

Can confirm that a busy day with lots going on did NOT tire her out. Awake for 90 mins from 11.30pm and then saw every hour until morning.

Jumping in here! DS is 5 months today and has been getting up once, sometimes twice a night for a month! I'm exhausted as also have a 18 month old to chase after during the day! He'd been sleeping through from about 10 weeks old so I'd got out of the habit of getting up in the night. It does end right?? 😭😭

@LCF2021 that sounds so rough! We had a marginally better night on Christmas Eve - there was even a three hour stretch at one point - but we were back to hourly last night. Really can’t carry on like this for much longer!

Welcome @Mommabear20 hope you're doing ok despite the tough nights. @LCF2021 I had high hopes for lo being tired out too but we had our worst night yet last night! Had a lovely Christmas though. Hope everyone else did too!

Welcome @Mommabear20!! We all hope it ends but don't ask us when

Oh @LCF2021 that's not a very good christmas present from your LO, you poor thing

Weirdly she’s been napping for two hours in her big cot. I don’t feed her to sleep for naps, just gave her a cuddle and she was pretty much asleep when I put her in. She even stirred and gave a little cry after 45 mins but I left her for a few mins and she settled back down. I just don’t know why she can’t do that in the night. I always give her time to settle before rushing to her but she just gets louder and more upset at night.

@LCF2021 thats great! Hopefully the more she practices self settling the more consistent she will be.

DS is now 14 months and back to waiting up 3 or 4 times a night. It's exhausting!!

I'm starting to get a little worried about it as he's supposed to be moving into a room with his sister in January when he turns 6 months, and if he is still waking up in the night, we'll end up waking her up to go into him 🤦‍♀️ DD is an absolutely amazing sleeper and can put her down wide awake and she's perfectly happy to settle herself.

Is anyone else struggling with unhelpful partners too? DH never gets up with DS in the night and I'm not sure how long I can keep being the only one doing anything!

@Mommabear20 Welcome! It sounds like you’re blessed with a good sleeper if he was sleeping through at 10 weeks. My son didn’t manage consistently sleeping through until 11 months 🥱 I’m sure if he’s waking once or twice a night it’ll just be a blip and he’ll get back to it. Wish I could offer some more advice but after 6/7 weeks of hourly wake ups I’m not the best person to offer tips! 😂

@LCF2021 he generally is a good sleeper but I think that's making somewhat worse as we know he is more than capable of going all the way through the night.

Hoping everyone gets some relief soon! 🤞🤞

@LCF2021 If it's any consolation, our night was just as bad but up from 12.30 till 3 trying to rock him to sleep, cos boob didn't do it and as soon as he touched the bed he would start yelling, but when we pick him up he would fall asleep immediately and snore... We have no idea why.

@Mommabear20 men need to have it spelled out that you need help. I finally realised and did it, and mine was like 'oh, I thought you had it supermummy'. I could have ripped his head off but at least he pulled his shit together there and then. Sometimes he needs a kick but I have no qualms in doing so now.

Lo slept through the whole night last night.
Similar the night before only waking for one bottle.
Hope this carries on! And is the end of the regression!

Congrats @pinkgin1!!!

I think we are slowly getting back to normal too (fingers crossed). Only 1 wake up so far since 8.30...I know I will kick myself for still being awake.

DS was up at 2am last night then wanted to get up at 6am so I'm now downstairs with him and 18month old DD. DH still in bed as he 'didn't get enough sleep last night!' 😡 asked him if he'd grab the bottle during the night while I changed DS and he just rolled over and said he'd 'get up next time!' Clearly not!

We've had 3 really good nights now. Christmas eve DH put her down at 7:30 (no feed to sleep!) and she managed to stay asleep until 11pm while I watched xmas eve eastenders downstairs with a baileys hot chocolate! Felt very good after months of not having a proper evening. I was expecting her to be awake then but she went back down easily until 4am. So it was an early start to christmas day for me but not too bad. Then Christmas Day we didn't manage the falling asleep in the cot but I fed her to sleep at 8pm, one wakeup at 3am and then slept through until 7:45am! I was tired from the 4am start so nodded off just after I put her down so as you can imagine I felt like a new woman yesterday . Last night was exactly the same although she woke slightly earlier for a long feed at 6:45. I'm soo pleased that we have all managed to have a well rested Christmas though, even if it doesn't last!

Also, for the last 3 days she has happily napped in her pram in the kitchen for 2 hours late afternoon so DH and I have had some time to relax, eat some cheese and play board games instead of trudging around the streets in the carrier for her long nap.

I'm hopeful it will continue, but she has had a little cough and cold so we are a little nervous shes just been extra sleepy because of that and as soon as she feels better she won't want to sleep anymore! But who knows.

@Mommabear20 your DH needs a massive kick up the arse to help out, especially if he is off work for Christmas now. Tell him tonight he does all the wake ups and get yourself a good night sleep!!

@pinkgin1 wow merry christmas to you thats amazing!! Long may it continue.