11 week old - sleep regression?

[chloejoy]

my little boy has always been a good sleeper since we brought him home and once he was over birth weight and we didn’t need to wake him he would do 6 hour stretches at night! he’s even done a 9 hour stretch before so never really struggled with day and night confusion. he’s still aware it’s nighttime at the moment as he goes straight back to sleep once i pick him up but he’s waking every 1.5-2 hours all of a sudden the last like week and i’m just not sure what the reason is as nothing else has changed and he doesn’t want feeding he just wakes and needs resettling! i don’t mind resettling him obviously i just wasn’t sure if this was the 4 month sleep regression? i know it can come between 3-5 months and he’s almost 3 months in just over a week and he was 2 weeks late so adjusted age would make him over 3 months so is that what this is??

Going to follow this with interest. My boy has always done a stint of 6-9 hours at night since he was about 7 weeks . He turned 12 weeks on Monday and since then has slept awful day and night. Last night was every 40mins to 1 hour.
if it is the regression fingers crossed it’ll end early for us both!

that’s exactly the same as my boy! anywhere between 6-9 hour stretches first thing at night for weeks now he won’t even do 2 hours really and his day time sleep is rubbish only naps for half an hour and that’s even if he’s kept on us for a contact nap he will still wake after half an hour! fingers crossed it’s something like that because otherwise i have no idea! my boy will be 12 weeks on saturday

Mines been feeding at every wake. I’m EBF though so not sure if that makes a difference.
Currently nap trapped now. I’m so tired I want to sleep, but I know the second I close my eyes he will wake up. So think I’ll opt for some chocolate and caffeine.
He’s my second child and I know sleep changes are always just a phase, but it’s still so tough when you’re living it!

i’m also nap trapped with a cup of tea and piece of cake so you’re not alone hahah! i do have to keep reminding myself it’s all a phase just not sure how/when they come out of regressions is there anything i need to be doing or will it just end when it ends??

He napped for 3 hours! Wish i’d had that nap. Fingers crossed tonight isn’t too bad for either of us. ☺️
I don’t think there is anything we can do to make a regression end. Just need to look after ourselves so we can ride it out for however long it takes!

hahah that’s always the way when you think it won’t be long enough for there to be a point having a nap they like the take the long ones hahah! i’m currently awake with little one he did 3 hours i’ve just resettled him after him waking up but 3 hours is better than 1.5 hours lol so we shall see fingers crossed. for the rest of the night

How was the rest of your night? We had a better night, but still not great. He woke every 30 mins between 10pm and 12am. Then woke at 5 for a feed before waking every hour until 8am. No decent nap test today either 🙄

he did every 2 hours after that first wake up so from about midnight then woke up at 2am then 4am then it was 5.30am and he was up for the day🙄 annoying but a bit better than the night before

I’m now in exactly the same boat as you both, did your LOs go back to sleeping for long stretches?

Sorry to hear you are going through the same thing too.
Good news and bad news….. he ended up sleeping for longer stretches again, but we were hit a month later by the 4 month sleep regression which lasted 2 months. It’s been a rollercoaster when it’s come to sleep to be honest!
He’s nearly 8 months now and sleeps pretty well.