4 month old refuses to sleep in next to me crib.

My 4 month old baby has been going through sleep regression and teething. He was giving me 4-5 hour stretches and then a few weeks ago started waking every hour and refused to sleep in his next to me crib. We have started co-sleeping and for 2 nights he did 4 hour stretches. But now we are back to waking every 1.5-2 hours. However now he refuses to sleep in the bed too, he wants you to be permanently standing up rocking him. The second you stop he wakes and cries. We’ve tried putting him down after being asleep on us for 20 minutes, we’ve tried putting him down drowsy and we have also tried putting him down awake. Nothing works. Does anyone have any advice? I want him to be comfortable in his own space but I also need some sleep myself.

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Im also in this boat. I found ibuprofen for kids helped as he was teething. He then sleeps 4 hours from 8pm
Then wakes 1230 ish. Then feeds and down toll 2.30
Feed again
Up again at 5
Then we end up co sleeping untill 10 as I need sleep 🥲

We went through this a few weeks ago and to put his pram in the carry cot position in our room and push him til he fell asleep and then use our pram rocket thing to trick him into thinking we were still pushing him

If you’re up to it anbesol is for 5 months old and you will have to say they’re 5 months or they’ll not give you it BUT if you use it sparingly and keep topped up with calpol it’s the best combination. Anbesol has lidocaine in which is a numbing agent and it’s honestly the best one we tried Ashton and parsons gel and it just didn’t help at all x

We always warm the mattress before putting our 12 week old down. When we don't, the cold surface jolts her awake as she has been warm on me for 20-30 minutes. Hope your situation improves ❤️ every hour or two is actual torture, our daughter was like that for a couple of weeks when the 8 week regression hit. Xx

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