We are five weeks into hourly wakeups and it’s killing me. He started waking every hour, after being an ok sleeper (waking 2-3 times a night). At first this felt hellish, but slowly over time he’s got increasingly difficult to get back to sleep, and put down. Sometimes it can take hours and 10+ goes at getting him in his cot, for him to wake again 40 minutes later.
He is EBF and will only fall asleep feeding or with rocking. He’s never fallen asleep by himself, and I’m starting to feel like this is the source of the problem. Things just seem to be getting worse and worse, no matter how much effort I put in to his daytime naps and bedtime routine. He also wakes up screaming, and picking him up doesn’t calm him at all. He will continue screaming until he finally drops back off from rocking (can take 10 mins with him crying the whole time) l, or I feed him.
Where are we going wrong?! Can someone please advise! I’m currently sat at 3.30am with him sleeping on me (which I haven’t done in months) but I just can’t carry on with this never ending battle to get him asleep, in his cot, and get him to stay there for more than half an hour 😭