Baby suddenly fighting sleep

[Laurap93]

My 10 week old has previously slept well, 4-5 hour stretches at night, followed wake windows and slept for up to 2 hours each nap in the day. He needed to be rocked to sleep but once asleep he would either sleep on me, in the pram or I could put him down. A couple of weeks ago we were in hospital on oxygen for RSV and Bronchiolitis, he slept well in the hospital but since coming home he has fought sleep. He will sleep ok in the pram, very well if in the sling and loves his swing chair. If I try to get him to sleep by rocking he might fall asleep initially but then wakes screaming 10-20 minutes later and could then take hours to get back off to sleep. The evenings are worse, he'll fall asleep on me quite calmly but wake, like said, he will down 6oz of milk no matter how long ago his previous feed was then chat, smile, cry for up to 3 hours before falling asleep again. We can then put him in his cot and he'll sleep the whole night. It's so stressful trying to get him to sleep! It's like he needs constant movement to stay asleep all of a sudden. I don't know what's changed. I suppose the point of this is to just feel normal and not alone? Hoping someone out there has experienced the same!?

I rocked my baby to sleep until he was 18 months old. At first it was in my arms, when he became too heavy for that it was in a pram and then transferred into cot. When he was really little like yours I played white noise for him whilst rocking to sleep but he didn't sleep 4-5 hours through until he was around 16 weeks old. I downloaded the wonder weeks app and it often showed that during periods of unsettled sleep he was going through a leap. He could also just be unsettled from being unwell. But when he wakes up he will likely need that rocking motion to become settled again. I know how hard it is but try and cherish the moments where they need you in the night because although the nights are long, when you look back they are so fleeting.