I have a little boy born end of June so just over 3 months old now. I will caveat this post by saying we’ve been incredibly lucky up until this point (and I’m not naive enough to think it’s anything we’ve done as he’s been treated exactly the same as my eldest who was a terrible sleeper until they were over 1).
DS was sleeping maybe midnight - 6am with no wake ups (or at least minimal wake ups). In the last week he has been waking consistently between 3-3.30am and being awake for AGES. I’ve not got a problem with him waking up really but it’s more the being awake and not get him back to sleep for 2-3 hours after that’s a killer.
Current bedtime routine is bath around 7, 5oz formula around 7.30 then he settles in one of those cocoon pillow things on the sofa usually falling asleep with dummy (but otherwise minimal intervention) between 8.30-9. Feed again around 11 (EBM) then a change and very quick top up feed in bed before going down (top up feed is because I’ve stopped being able to express as much so bottle is only 3oz which isn’t enough.
He’s still in our room, currently in the Moses basket which he is definitely getting too big for. Happy to keep him in our room but need a different solution to the Moses basket (travel cot? Move the actual cot in?). Reluctant to move him into his own room because it’s downstairs (we sleep in the loft) and I have an older child who is in school so needs a decent rest. He has a dummy - wondering if he’s over reliant on this because he spits it out when in a deep sleep but then seems to want it when he stirs.
He will go back to sleep fairly immediately if on me / in our bed but I really don’t want to get into co-sleeping (absolutely no judgement on those who do but my husband is an extremely deep sleeper and I just don’t feel comfortable with it). It’s also not practical really for him to sleep on me as every time I put him down in his basket he wakes again and I do need to sleep at some point! Because he will settle with me I don’t think he’s hungry (I don’t feed back to sleep in the night). He’s not had milk between midnight and 6am since 2 months old.
Temp in room is 17 ish according to thermometer and DS is in 2.5 sleep sack, long sleeve sleep suit and short sleeve vest as per sleep guidance. His hands are like ice when he wakes up not sure if that’s a factor but he hates the mitten bits of the sleep suit being over his hands.
any advice on what I can do to get him to go back to sleep??