11 week old regression??

[AmieB]

Third time mum here, so you’d think I’d be clued up by now but here I am asking on mumsnet for advise 😀

So, little boy is now 11 weeks old and from around week 5 to about week 9 he slept in his bedside crib from 7pm - 1am (ish), have a quick feed and then go back to sleep until about 6am. This was consistent and we were all getting a good amount of sleep, he was happy and thriving.
Shortly after the 9 week mark it all started to go to pot and he started waking more in the night, refusing to go back to sleep after feeds etc and just generally needing to be resettled/fighting nighttime sleep. Eventually I started bringing him into the bed with me around 4/5am just because by that point I was exhausted and low and behold he would be asleep within seconds and not bat an eyelid until morning.

Fast forward a week or so and we are still struggling with the nights, he wakes pretty much hourly and needs resettling, sometimes he can be awake for 1-2 hours before he finally admits defeat, just to wake again an hour later.
The other night I was absolutely exhausted so around 11pm I brought him into bed with me and he slept until 7am!!! I felt like a new woman but I am also quite against co-sleeping - not because there’s anything wrong with it, I just don’t want to encourage it or that be how we sleep, so here I am a walking zombie asking for advice on how to tackle this.

for context - his wake windows are around 60-90 minutes, he naps well during the day, he has a consistent bedtime routine, we’ve tried a sleepyhead, Ewan the dream sheep, giving extra feeds etc etc but still we are getting the hourly wakes.
I know this is extremely common - Google tells me, but what it doesn’t tell me is what the hell we do! Do we ride it out, do I let him co-sleep and deal with that habit later down the line, HELP basically 😀

thank you!! Xx

Just let him cosleep if it works - it's what the majority of the world do. I always coslept some of the night and mine now sleeps through the night on her own (18 months). Sleepyheads shouldn't be used for unsupervised sleep, it's not safe. I'd also say 7pm is too early to be going to 'bed', they barely know the difference with day/night at that age. We used to keep our daughter up with us til we went to bed, at that age, as it's advised to be in the same room until 6 months.

Third baby here and he’s also 11 weeks old! We have had pretty much 2 hour feeds since he was born. He now does the odd 3 hour stretch but that’s not every night. We co sleep and my husband is in spare room at the moment. It’s just easier as he’s feeding so often. I’d defo carry on with the co sleeping if that helps. Then at worst case you can start sleep training after 6 months. That’s what we plan to do :) x

Thank you @RT1620 - we actually had a much better night last night with 0 co-sleeping needed so maybe he felt sorry for me and thought ‘jeez I better give mum a break’ haha.

always so reluctant to post on here as others are so judgemental.
@Peonies12 Fully aware of sleepyheads - like I said, parent of THREE, not new to this melarky - each to their own and all that jazz, fully aware of health risks etc and not sure why mums feel the need to negatively comment on what others choose to do.
Also - we did keep him downstairs with us until we went to bed in the beginning, however found the TV/general noise etc kept disturbing him when all he wanted to do was sleep, his sleep actually improved when we started ‘putting him to bed’ at 7pm as such, we have a monitor on and our house is only small so highly unlikely anything would happen due to this. However like I said, mum of three, fully aware of guidelines.

Thanks for the judgemental advice though @Peonies12 :)))))