DS is 16 weeks - was a good sleeper up to 3 months and had started to go between 3 and 5 hour stretches between night time feeds. He can go to sleep on his own at night and after feeds. Sometimes would take up to 30 mins of him making the grunting sounds before he went back to sleep but he always seemed able to settle him self.
however..... recently he is still going off to sleep ok, i put him down at about 7.30 - 8pm but...... the max time he sleeps for is 3 hours and then he is awake every 2 hours ( sometimes less). He settles fine after feed - looks asleep but then starts lifting his legs up and down banging his legs on the mattress ( who knows what the neighbours think as the noise travels through the floor/wall!). no obvious discomfort, although i am wondering if he is teething?
the banging of legs can go on for over 30mins and it escalates into calling out. The only thing that seems to help his feeding him ( although this seems just for comfort between waking's that are for food)
Ive tried stroking him, picking him up, white noise, co sleeping ect but nothing works apart from feeding him. He has one nappy change in the night because i thought he might be uncomfortable with a big nappy - possible makes a slight difference
im beginning to feel grumpy and grizzly myself in the night from increased broken sleep. I am hoping that I can have some reassurance that :
1 - this is just a phase / or due to teething
2 - feeding to sleep is ok
3 - his night time sleep will start to increase again
4 - have i missed anything?
thank you - my gut says just hang on in there and it will pass