My baby as soon as he turned 12 weeks old turned into a horrendous sleeper. He was doing 3/4 hours stretches in his next to me cot and independent 2 hour naps. He was also doing the occasional all night through maybe 1-2 times a week. All of a sudden he turned 12 weeks (he’s now 14.5 weeks) and I cannot put him down. As soon his head hits the next to me he is wide awake and screaming, of a night time my husband is having to have him on his chest to sleep until about 1am and then my husband goes to the spare room so me and baby can safely co sleep so we all get a bit of sleep. I can’t go on like this, every nap is a battle. I don’t mind feeding or rocking to sleep but I’d quite like him to stay asleep not on us. It’s so hard. Things I’ve tried:
- shush and pat when in the cot
- putting down drowsy and helping him sleep this way
- putting down in a deep sleep
- warming the cot with a heat pad
- pick up/ put down
- putting a muslin that smells like me
- rocking the cot
- keeping my hand on his back / chest
- Laying on his sheet so the cot smells like me
I appreciate his sleep is maturing and changing at this age but NOTHING is working and I find the information online about sleep training all very overwhelming but I really am at a loss and I don’t want to create bad sleep habits by having him sleep on us, but this is by far my biggest challenge as he was such an easy newborn. SOS