8 Week Sleep

Our boy has gifted us with at least a 3 hour first stretch of sleep each night, and even quite a few 5 hour first stretches over the past month.
Last night, nothing about his routine changed but he only lasted 90 minutes between feeds.
Is anyone else experiencing quite a drastic change in sleep (for the worse)? I’m hoping this was a one off but also suspect we’re in for a rough ride for a while 😢 He still won’t be put down for naps in the day so night sleep was my only way of surviving.
The irony is I’ve been moaning about being tired before this happened!

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Yes we have. Our boy turned 8 weeks yesterday and was getting occasional 5 hour stretches. But for the last 4 nights it's been feeds every 1-2 hours. I read about a leap that happens at this time but I've not paid too much attention to it and hope he starts to go longer again 😅 not sure if this will work for you but we recently discovered that rock music sends him to sleep 🤣 he hates nursery rhymes. It will get better!

Yes! Mine is 6 weeks though… we went from 3-4 hour stretches between feeds to waking every hour these past few days 😓

Past couple of nights I’ve been up feeding him every 1.5/2 hours. He’s 6 weeks old. Before we’d get 2/3 hours between feeds at night.

Yes but my little one is 6 weeks, we were getting 4-5 hours just recently and now it’s every 1.5-2 hours and being fussy in between feeds too. I’m so tired 😭😭😭

Oh no! This is what I feared 😱
Out of interest, are you all finding day time feeds are more frequent as well?
He’s had his 8 week jabs today and I was reading that people are finding they are sleepier and not eating as much. Little tinker has been awake all day and feeding every 2 hours when it’s usually 3 in the day 😏

Mine hasn’t had her jabs yet but definitely seems fussier and wanting feeds more. Today, for example, I’ve only been able to get her to sleep by taking her out in the pram or wearing her around the house in a sling x

We had a rough ish few nights between week 7-8 but it seems to be calm again

Not sure if you are BF or formula but this was an indicator for me to slightly increase the feed and this helped us go back to long stretches.

8 week sleep regression, don’t take it personally, have patience, your little one is adjusting to new sleeping patterns xx

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