Sleep regression

Anyone else going through the dreaded sleep regression?? My baby is EBF so I’ve understood it’s normal for him to wake every 3 hours. Since he’s been born we’ve done a mix of sleep in the next to me and cosleeping and he did one 5 hour stint once but everything else was every 2-3 hours. Now the last 3 weeks he has woken up every 45 mins with a few stints being an hour and a half. This is horrendous! I’m also fighting off a bad cold at the minute and it just feels I’ll not be able to recover because of the lack of sleep.
Please is your baby doing this too and are you doing anything to help/stop it?

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Yep my baby is a terrible sleeper and it's only seeming to get worse 😩 I'm actually so tempted to stop BF all together to see if it helps as I just can't physically do it anymore it's so exhausting

My baby has been doing the exact same thing & I EBF so it feels some what more relentless 🙈 last night though I just kept trying to soothe her back to sleep. Kept trying with her dummy and she went back without a feed. I just think it will be a distant memory soon. Roll with it nap in the day if you can. Last night I went to sleep same time as her at 8pm and I feel so refreshed for doing it and not trying to stay up 🤣

Sending love! Not as bad but mine started waking between midnight & 1 2 weeks ago which has triggered a night long fight with her dummy & me getting up constantly to put it back in. I usually end up giving in and bringing her into bed as the comfort of me distracts from the missing dummy. So hard when they used to behave one way and now they've changed it entirely. She's bottle fed, which helps, and I definitely don't have it as bad as others. Sending strength x

Having the battle here as well. He is bottlefed - has a 4 -5 stint and then is up every 2 hours. He wont nap during the day without alot of crying and even getting him down bow at nights takes an hr when he used to always be pretty easy🥲🥲. We can do this ladies

Same here. I’ve realised I don’t even think it’s wanting to be feed every time but more for comfort and reassurance. He was doing great at going down at night but the past two weeks now I’ve had to hold him 24/7. I guess I’ll just power through and hope he can settle more soon. I know people who combo feed who have the same issue - think it’s more growth spurt, teething and development more than anything else.

Girls I highly recommend huckleberry. My November baby is my second and with my first I was exactly the same his sleep was all over the place and it was a battle every nap and bedtime. Now my November baby wakes once/twice a night for a quick breastfeed and she’s straight back to sleep. I have some free trials for huckleberry premium if anyone wants one. You log the sleep and it tells you the ‘sweet spots’ for when they should next nap and when bedtime should be! It honestly saved my sanity xx

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Notning will fucking shut her up!!!

2 nights in a row my daughter isn't even crying it's just noise and it's constant! NOTHING fucking works anymore! I had 2 hours sleep last night and at the moment ive had around 3 hours I feel like I'm in the newborn trenches all over again and I honestly just want to kill my self because I can't be fucking arsed for this shit anymore!

My son was a dream from 2 months old. My daughter is just a completely different child! I can't I just can't do it.

It's fine for her Dad to fuck off downstairs to the couch while I'm just in bed trying to do anything I can to settle her which nothing works!! I don't wanna put her in bed with me because I don't want to get her into the habit of co sleeping, a bottle used to settle her and now it doesn't. Shushing doesn't work, patting her doesn't work.

She's 19 months

I want to die!!!!!!!

Should I reach out to my mom?

I'm a 30yo ftm with a 6 month old little boy. I'm loving motherhood it's by far the best thing I've done in life.

That being said there is this one piece I keep coming back to that just stings. My own mother is hardly talking to me. She lives 10min uo the road and has only met him about 3 or 4 times all because I initiated contact.

I have cptsd and childhood trauma from my mother. Now I have gone to therapy I don't really hold anger towards her for it anymore I believe at this point my trauma is mine to heal I don't need her to solve it for me. Without going into detail she suffers from severe depression and put a lot of it on me growing up. So understandably have a hot and cold relationship.

We were in a good spot until about 3/4 of the way through my pregnancy where she totally flipped the script and started arguing with me about super old stuff that in my opinion just didn't need dug up (especially while like 7months pregnant) anyway this continued postpartum and it just sings extra ya know. Like she waited until I was again at a vulnerable point in life to cause arguments and take advantage of my vulnerability.

I'm just sad, I miss the way she is when she's acting normal, but I've tried to reach out and every time it's an argument.

What should I do?

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