Co sleeping hell

[Ellie1311]

I’m currently co sleeping with my almost 7 week old (third baby) and I’ll be frank, whilst the cuddles are lovely, in general I’m not loving it! I used to be able to feed then lay her down on her side and she’d sleep a good few hours like this in the bed (I’m very aware of the Sids risk but believe me when I say she doesn’t last one whole minute on her back at any point night or day)
but now she has to be held on her side all night long against the boob or she will not sleep. She’s also very restless squirming and making noises all night.
We try for around 3-4 hours a night to get her to sleep in the next2me doing all the tips and tricks you’re told like warming the mattress, white noise etc etc and nothing works. So we give up around midnight.

I know this won’t last , but I’m struggling , I’d say I’m only getting 2 hours a night of very broken sleep. My anxiety is through the roof and I have zero energy for anything.

Basically wtf can I do? I did sleep train my eldest two from 4 months as they were similar (but no where near as bad) but I feel like I’m going to lose the plot before I get to that point!

Poor you, it’s so tough! I co slept from birth with my second child too.I notice you say we so I’m guessing you have a partner. At 7 weeks we were still tag teaming. I’d feed baby to sleep downstairs - she’d go into
a deep sleep about 9/10pm at that age - then husband would hold her on sofa til 12/1am whilst I slept upstairs. Then I’d feed and try once to get her in the next to me, then other wake ups we’d co sleep (bed in her room so husband had our bed all to himself). By 12 weeks she was going to bed with me at 10ish in her next to me and only
waking once or twice. It’s all gone to pot since 4 months but it worked til then!

Does she have reflux? Mine would not lie on his back without crying, and for five weeks he slept being held and my husband and I took it in shifts. Once I started him on Gaviscon he started sleeping better and then slept through for 6 glorious weeks in his cot until the 4 month regression!