Struggling

Really struggling with the lack of sleep, my LO’s nighttime sleep is terrible and so inconsistent. He’s 13 weeks old, weighs a tonne (EBF) and can be up every hour throughout the night, he’s not looking for food every wake up but more often than not looking for us to help him back to sleep. Though some nights (maybe once a week) he does a longer stretch of maybe 4 or 5 hrs, I’ll follow the exact same thing we did during the day on those better nights and he’ll still have a night from hell. Is anyone else in the same position? As it seems everyone else’s baby at this age/weight is borderline sleeping through/waking once or maybe twice in the night? Any tips or recommendations to help my baby to sleep longer at night would be so appreciated as truly getting to the end of my tether with it all. Thank you so much x

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Hi unfortunately haven’t got any tips as my daughter is the same, she still wakes every 2 hours, sometimes only has a few sips of milk and then back to sleep it’s so frustrating 🥲 hopefully the older they get it will improve! X

Maybe give him a dummy when he wakes up in the night to encourage him to soothe that way instead of relying on milk to soothe? That way you don't actually have to get him up and he will be used to the routine of staying in his bed for longer.

Thank you all so much! did the bottle of formula work for you? I would do anything at this point! X

thank you so much, we have tried dummy’s and he just spits them out but maybe I need to try some other dummies? X

so sorry you’re going through it too, really hope these babies start sleeping better! X

Thank you so much 5 hrs and then 3 hrs would be a dream for me at this point so I’ll look into getting some today, thank you x

Will do, thank you so much xxx

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