Tired baby won’t sleep

How are helping your baby’s to sleep through the regression?

My little boy is so stinking tired, he’s honestly never really ready to wake up either. Really soon after he wakes he’s pulling at his ears and scratching the crud out of his head and ready to sleep more but then I can’t get him back to sleep.

I feel so bad for my sleepy boy. He’s totally a high sleep needs baby (total opposite of my first).

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I would try a car drive and see if that helps. My son loves car drives they put him to sleep.

mine too. That’s typically my last resort but then he’s hard to transfer right now. He’s probably sleep for a few hours in the seat if I left him.

His arms are half the problem too! I had to start holding them down because his scratching kept him from drifting off

Does he like the bath or shower my son loves the shower and he has boobie time he will fall asleep

literally me rn. baby wearing, went in a walk, and bouncing. still no sleep 😭 he drifted off and woke right back up. it’s been an hour. like poor thing. he did sleep through the night thankfully, but only bc i had to hold his little arms down to keep him from rubbing his face 😭😭

omg he just fell asleep. rejoice 😭

Sounds like he may be teething

he is but he’s also starting to roll a bit. It’s everything at once rn. He’s up for hours at night. He’ll wake up around midnight and be up until 5.

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