Is this leap 4 or sleep regression?

[August21yellowbaby]

So my little boy is 19 weeks on Monday so coming to the end of leap 4.
His mood has been fine throughout this leap, no crying, but maybe a little harder to feed (BF) as he's gone quite nosey at the world around him!

He's been going down for naps in the day in his cot absolutely fine but only sleeps for 30 minutes but that's okay with me

He was sleeping from 9pm with a feed at 2ish and 5:30ish but since about 2 weeks ago he's "waking" every 1-2 hours but he doesn't actually open his eyes, he just stirs a lot so I pick him up and feed him but most of the time he just latches on suckles a little and is back settled within minutes. If I leave him in his cot he will cry and fully wake up.

He is in "sleep mode" as I call it from 9pm- 8am ish but obviously is stirring A LOT

My question is, is this the regression? Or the leap? Or is this just how he is going to be whilst he's a baby? I'm very tired and kind of want an idea of if and when he will settle abit better at night

Thank you!

It sounds like the 4 month sleep regression. He is waking between sleep cycles. I would stop feeding him every time he stirs at night as you will be reinforcing the idea that he needs milk between sleep cycles. Also encourage longer naps by resettling him after 30 mins for the morning or midday one.

It might be an idea to put him in a different room so that you can't hear him unless he actually cries. He needs to learn to link sleep cycles and if you can give him the chance to learn it now, at 4-6 months, you may be able to avoid an unpleasant choice between years of broken sleep and doing sleep training

Our first was the same, seep regression.
We solved it by helping him be ok with being slightly wakeful and then going back to sleep. So in real life that meant patting his bum this sends him asleep, you would do whatever you do that isn’t breastfeeding gently from 40 minutes to 50 minutes which covered his 45 minute wake up from a nap. It took a while but he slowly realised it’s ok to be awake and not need us, so learnt to go back into cycle
2 on his own.