Wakes up everytime

[Smaugli]

Has anyone experinced anything similar? DD (7 weeks) has been a great sleeper at night for the last 10 days: sleeping 6-7 hours, feeding, sleeping 2.5-3 hours, feeding and sleeping for another 1-1.5 hours. Today is smth else! Since 8pm she won't sleep in her bed for more than 2 minutes! 🤯 starts fussing and crying. We pick her up, she is super happy, easily rocked to sleep, but when we transfer her to the bassinet, she wakes up after couple of minutes and everything repeats. And it doesn't matter for how long we have her in our arms - 5 mins or 20, she will be soundly asleep throughout until we put her down😵 I fed her at 1am, she fell asleep next to me, I waited 40 (!) mins, then carefully transferred her to her bed, and same thing happened😭

Swaddle, white noise and warm the bed with a hot water bottle

Ah that’s really hard to be lulled into a false sense of security. I was lucky, my DS was consistently awful at sleeping so I was never tricked into thinking we’d get some sleep!

The only thing that helped a little bit was a dummy - when he stirred the dummy seemed to distract/settle him into staying asleep.

Worked until 6 months when he kept waking up every half hour because the dummy would fall out when he fell asleep. But then we took the dummy away and did sleep training which was absolutely magical.

Oh I'm so sorry you had a long stretch of sleepless nights. You are right, it's easy to fall into the trap of assuming your child is not going to regress. It caught us by surprise and caused a lot of stress that night😅 She's back to her normal self, but we now know it can change at any time and we'll be prepared for it.

May I ask which sleep training did you use? Did you have a specialist help you?

Hi i posted help with this few week back,wts worked for us is when he wakes for a feed i change him first,dont put on a big light on innhis room,dont interact with him too much keep him sleepy....feed him again with a dim light,keep him in his sleeping bag,when hes finished feeding and been burped,sometimes i put him back down with white noise machine again no big lights on or ill cuddle him for abit and then put him down,it will get better hope this helps xx