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?

@Sneezymcsneezy I definitely think they like the room. Both of mine hated the Next to Me cot.
She cost £150 and that’s with a month of unlimited email support which I think is so reasonable compared to many of the others I’ve seen.

An example of the inconsistencies despite sleep training…yesterday she napped for 1 hour in the morning, 1.5 hours at lunchtime and the 3rd nap is harder to achieve but she managed 40 mins in the carrier. Today she woke at 5.30am, slept for an hour in the morning but only 40 mins at lunchtime after a 15 minute protest and absolutely would NOT settle back down. I’m already dreading trying to keep her asleep for longer for her 3rd nap.

Had a good night last night. Went to bed at 10 woke 4:20am for one bottle then went to sleep till 8:00 :)

But he was in my bed next to me 🙄

@pinkgin1 I know, I found him sleeping with me makes all the difference

It's so lovely to read that so many of us are having better nights now. Sending to everyone still in the thick of it.

We have had lots of improvement too, only having wake ups once or occasionally twice a night. Even had a 9 hour stretch the other night. Feeling a LOT better for it and I have a much happier baby.

Naps have improved too and shes having one if not two 1.5-2 hour ones a day (in her pram, I walk to get her off to sleep then she stays asleep in the kitchen).

Still feeding to sleep and still getting the bed dread most nights in case it's the night it all goes to pot lol.

Hang on in there everyone

@JammyRedRooo did you do anything or did it resolve itself over time?
I’ve been up 4 x since 7pm. Not enjoying being a human dummy!

So glad to hear @JammyRedRooo.
We’re seeing great improvements too after sleep training. Last night she slept from 7.30pm, dreamfeed at midnight, stirred for 2 mins at 5.30am and was up at 7.15am! I’m hoping it starts to get more consistent soon but I’m so glad we’ve made these changes.

That's bloody amazing @LCF2021 - I bet you feel like a new woman.

@notpsychic it just got better over time, although we have tried to stay consistent with the bed time routine and sleep associations that don't involve us e.g. white noise on all night.

So glad to hear it gets easier. I’m just questioning how breastfeeding fits in to it all. I’m pleased for you x

Good night again last night. Slept till 7:15am with no waking for a bottle before.

@pinkgin1 amazing 🥰

@Sneezymcsneezy how's your little one being tonight?

How's everyone been doing?

So I increased the layers for warmth and that seemed to help the first night but then not any other night! We moved him to the cot and first night he went 8pm to 3am and we were certain we had cracked it!! Then he subsequently wakes every couple of hours. Daytime naps are awful unless I hold him we went back to swimming yesterday and he slept on me for like 2hrs after! Should I even let him sleep that long?!

How’s everyone been getting on?

Does anyone know if it’s ok to play gentle/soft music all night to a baby?! Last night was night three or DS being in his own room, and half way through the night when he started to stir I tried pressing the button for music to play on the monitor and he went back to sleep for half an hour without me having to get up. I left it on then and noticed when I did have to get to go feed him he seemed to go down into his cot far easier. At around 7am after an hour of sleep he cried out and woke me up, watched him on the monitor and he settled back down again for an hour! When he did wake and needed me to get him back to sleep, he was also just waking and morning, rather than his usual screaming until I feed him. So am thinking perhaps he doesn’t like the silence?! All of his naps in the day are with music on. Does anyone know if it’s ok/see any issue with twinkly soft music playing all night??

@pinkgin1 we are now co-sleeping from 1/2am, which makes us all happier and he goes down for 4 hour stretches! I'm actually loving it and he will come to sleeping on his own in time

@Sneezymcsneezy at this age in life all they want is to feel safe and secure , and if that's with you at night time for him to sleep then so be it! My son does the same sometimes! Especially when he's sick he won't sleep elsewhere but on me or next to me.

He falls asleep in my bed after his bottle I then put him in his cot he slept well again last night.

Woke at half 2, I went and made a bottle and he was basically asleep again within the two minutes of me making it but didn't want to waste so I fed it him, he then slept till 7:15 again, and then fell back asleep till 8.

Can't complain especially to what it was before. But I think him being ill and the whole teething situation really had an impact as he's like a different baby now. I mean it won't be perfect every night but this I can happily do!

@MintGreenLife of course it is! I play white noise all night too for my son (I also quite like it 😅)

@pinkgin1 thanks ☺️ I tried white noise a few times but didn’t seem to make much difference, but this lullaby music seemed to help last night. Hope it wasn’t a fluke!

@MintGreenLife definitely keep it going then! As if she started to wake she will hear it constant and hopefully it'll continue to soothe her to sleep. Hope you have a good night tonight 🙏🙏

Does anyone else’s LO scream the moment they wake up? I’m starting to worry a bit - we’ve had hourly wakeups for a month now, and rarely does he wake and whimper, even cry or chat, it’s screaming right from the second he wakes up and picking him up doesn’t help at all. The only thing that will stop him properly is feeding (breast) or it’s rocking, but they can take 10 mins of screaming. Just when he goes quiet and you think he’s settling down he forcefully turns his head from side to side and starts screaming again. Starting to worry something else is going on…? Does anyone else have the same?

@pinkgin1 just dealt with the second wakeups of the night, so so far theory of music helping isn’t proving to be right 😭 hope your night is going ok! X

After a couple of nights where she was back to waking twice tonight is proving to be another hell night of hourly wake ups and hard to get her down again. We're on wake up number 4 since 8pm at the moment. I just want sleep 😭 Hope others are having a better night x

@MintGreenLife Yep mine is the same, always fully crying from the second she wakes in the night or from naps. My son was the same though and he grew out of it. I’d say by the time he was around 10 months he’d usually wake up quietly and lie in bed for a while. He’s 2.5 and does the same now. In fact, in the morning he shouts “no!” At me when I go to get him out of bed…teenager already!

@MintGreenLife this was us until we started co-sleeping 😅

@MintGreenLife I'm too lazy to bother going back to my room, he seems to be doing much longer stints and only wake when hungry or moan for some human comfort (either mum or dad), just hand on head really. I'm going to stop being lazy and try going back to my own bed this weekend