Hello all,
I have posted about my DS sleep before on here but I am really at my wits end now - he is 4 months old this week and he just will not settle himself in his cot!
It could be the sleep regression yes but he’s never been a good sleeper, he fussed a lot in his Moses basket when younger and only slept 1/2 hours in it at a time.
He naps in the day either on me, in the pram, in the car seat while I’m driving and occasionally he’ll dose off in his bouncer for 40 mins. His naps aren’t at the same times everyday, they are random but usually after 1.5/2 hours of awake time.
Things we have already tried:
- Hot water bottle in cot to warm the bed up
- my top from the day so it smells of me
- dummy for sleep (but he now has it for comfort in the day if he gets upset)
- white noise
- Putting him down when he’s drowsy but awake (this never works he just wakes up fully immediately)
He sleeps in a sleep bag already and is formula fed - still waking up at least twice in the night for a feed.
We haven’t introduced a proper bedtime routine such as book, bath bed etc because I don’t know much about doing that and with him having random naps, his ‘bedtime feed’ as I call it is at different times each night so would I have to delay this feed to put him in a bedtime routine?
I feel like I’m failing him as a mother because he has a lot of broken sleep during the night and I’m worried this will affect his development.
Sorry for such a long post, any advice is helpful x