Sleep regression - I am losing myself😩😩
My little boy is 15 weeks and ever since this regression stage hit I don’t think I’ve slept. It’s been over two weeks now I’m sure of it. Before 12pm he’ll happily go between 2 1/2 and 3 hours without a feed (that’s fine), before the regression he used to go over 6 hours (this was bloody wonderful!)
Please tell me this will stop soon, I honestly can’t function anymore. He’s now getting up every 1-1 and 1/2 hours, during the night it’s just myself that does the feeding and changing my partner needs to sleep for work. Once he’s fed he goes straight back … but not for long.
Is there anything I can do? Anything people have tried differently? I genuinely prefer the newborn stage I’m that physically exhausted. Help me, please tell me it gets better soon😩😩!
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I remember the regression with my first born. I know it's awful hearing it but it does get better. Again, I know something you probably don't want to hear right now but it will like it goes on forever when it won't be much longer.
Just keep doing what you've been doing. Whatever worked before, may work again but don't be afraid to try knew things to get them back to sleep. Babies are forever changing so a routine that may not have worked before, may work now.
Try giving him a bath during the night to resettle if need be! Change the room that you are. We slept in the front room over night due to him wanting to be downstairs rather than up. Looking back now, I think it's because we spent most of our time in the front room so he probably liked it there more
We are about 3 weeks into this regression and last night the first time she had a really good sleep I'm hoping it wasn't just a fluke and that she's learning to self-settle 🤞 we actually didn't change anything we just kept her in her crib and settled her in there. Trying to keep an eye on her wake windows to avoid her getting over tired x
I’ve changed nothing about his routine except now he goes to bed earlier because he was getting tired and we could see that. He goes to bed between 7:30pm-8. We bath him 3 times a week like I always have. He’s just more active on a night time which is fine but then he’s waking constantly for more milk - he’s exclusively breastfed. Usually I’d leave him to settle back down but he’s wide awake, either crying or chatting away to himself I don’t understand.
The only thing I’ve changed is his bedtime but surely this can’t contribute? Can it?, he was struggling to stay awake which is why we made it earlier for him and honestly it works better for us too x
Sometimes it's not the fact that the routine has stayed the same, it's just sometimes they may want a change in routine or they just have a funny 5 out of routine and settle back into a few weeks later. Babies are so unpredictable and what works one day, may not work the next. Just try your best to go with the flow
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