My son used to be an ok sleeper, would settle reasonably easily, couple of wake ups in the night for his dummy but nothing major. He stopped night feeds himself by 6/7 weeks, he’s just not a hungry baby.
But these last 4 weeks he is horrendous. It’s taking me 1-2hours to settle him every night for him to thrash around the cot and wake up every 10mins from 1am. He’s rolling over which wakes him up, he’s crying even though he isn’t hungry, cold etc. he’s recently cut teeth through several weeks back so I know it’s not that currently bothering him, I’ve even took him the gp to see if it was his ears or throat or something but everything ok. I’m at a loss, I am dead on my feet as I have a 2 1/2year old aswell.
If I hold him he cries, if I don’t pick him up he cries, the only place is in his swing he stops crying but obviously I can’t let him sleep in this all night for safe sleep reasons.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
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A lot of babies have sleep regression around that age! We just went through a 1 year sleep regression with my step daughter and she’s finally coming out of it after a month

the exact same thing happened with my son when we hit about 4 months 3 weeks! A month later and he’s just now snapping out of it, but it takes serious time and patience. I know it’s hard but keeping perspective that it won’t last forever is huge. I know I’m the moment that feels pointless but it’s good too keep at the back of your head. We did start crying it out because there was simply nothing else we could do. We would go in every five minutes and try soothing him while he was laying in his crib (the big focus is not taking him out of his crib) and he would always fall asleep eventually.
My son was a fantastic sleeper, then all of a sudden wouldn’t sleep hardly at all. As much as we didn’t want to CIO, we had too for our sanity, and truly was a last resort. He would always fall asleep eventually.

whats the longest he would cry for? ive considered it too for the same reason

the first time, 20 minutes, now, less than 5

We’ve tried cry it out, loosely because he just screams and screech’s which wakes my daughter up then upsets her. It’s like he doesent even want to be awake either so if I touch him he screams, if don’t he screams, it’s impossible. The swing is the only place he won’t cry for a short while until he’s now started crying in there too.

my baby has just turned 5 months and is exactly the same. He’s been like this for around a month now, maybe longer so I know how you feel, it’s so tough. My little one is teething so I know that plays a part for him. But he rarely naps during the day even though he’s soo tired, will only sleep on me or my partner at night and has been waking up every hour or two during the night. It’s exhausting, but hoping this stage comes to an end the older he gets. Just know you’re not alone 💜