9 week sleep help

[spudnik1]

My 9 week old had his jabs last week, and since then, his sleep has gone to pot.

Last night, we started bedtime at 7.15pm. He woke 8 times between 7.15 and 1am.
We had a nappy change into sleep sack. Bf both sides, and he was fast asleep. Placed in cot, still fast asleep. 10 minutes later, screaming his head off. Resettle and repeat until 1am when absolutely exhausted. I removed sleep sack and swaddled, and we achieved 1 hour 30 mins of glorious sleep.

That was our longest stretch, and we are up for the day at 5.30 am.

Prior to these 2 weeks of hell. He would sleep 2.5 hours at a time overnight but would be straight down after a feed, so it was manageable. Although getting him down for the first sleep of the night was always hard, it usually took an hour. Not 6.

We bf because he has cmpa and refuses the special formula.

Co sleeping is not an option. My bed is very soft, and he rolls now. He could smother very easily. I also would prefer not to swaddle again because he has rolled over once, so it is on the cusp of doing a repeat.

Daytime sleep, he has approx 4/5 naps of about an hour but only in the carrier.

Does anyone have any ideas ?

Sounds pretty normal to me for this age (sorry - I know it's hard). It will get better but it takes time. You could try a dummy, if he doesn't have one already. Two of mine did, the other refused it. When mine were newborn we slept with them in a sleep pod in between me and DH, so they were still in the bed with us but protected from smothering. If you're not already doing it, I'd also suggest that you and DP take shifts, and sleep on separate rooms, so you each get some time to sleep. Also, white noise can help. I didn't swaddle any of mine, so can't comment on that. What I would suggest though is that you try to keep all night time waking as quiet and low key as possible. No eye contact (unless he is completely awake and alert), dim or no lights, no talking other than to say softly 'shh' or something like that, no jiggling him around - gentle rocking or cuddling only. We started singing our youngest twinkle twinkle little star and it became a bit of a sleep cue. Hope this helps.

Last night was so much better. Yes I swaddled. And brought forward bedtime by an hour hour. He was up every hour but that is so much better than up every 10 minutes!