Sleep getting worse. Breaking point.

I genuinely don’t know what’s going on with my 5.5 month old anymore but his sleep is getting progressively worse and I feel like I’m at breaking point.

Last night he went down at 7:30 and was awake again after an hour. Then after midnight he basically would not sleep unless he was on me. Every time I tried to put him back down he’d either wake instantly or be awake again 5 minutes later.

Not even upset half the time, just rolling around, legs in the air, grabbing his feet, babbling, trying to roll, acting completely awake at 2am???

I was replacing the dummy constantly, patting him, trying to resettle him for HOURS and nothing worked. He finally slept from around 3:30 but only because he was in bed with me and even then I barely slept because I was anxious and awake half the time.

The thing is his naps are fine. I follow wake windows, he naps well, he falls asleep independently at bedtime. I’m not feeding or rocking him to sleep every night so I genuinely don’t understand why nights are so horrendous.

My partner works away and is away completely until June so I’m doing this alone and I honestly feel like I’m losing my mind from the sleep deprivation.

Please tell me someone else has been through this because I don’t know what to do anymore.

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Hey! I completely relate to this, little one is 6 months next week and she was beginning to sleep through the night and then all of sudden it went to hell. She does the same, wakes up after an hour trying to roll and babble and again just after midnight, She does get a couple of hours stretch but everyday at half 5 she’s awake and I give her a feed to see if I can get a few more hours in, I only get about 30 minutes more 🥲

I thought we was lucky and had skipped the 4 month regression but I think it’s catching up to us now and I have been in the trenches for the past two weeks 🥲

I have no advice unfortunately, just know you’re not in it alone and we’ve just gotta ride it out and hope it passes soon😩 🫶

I know its hard because you can hear him but if he's not crying and is happy but awake, leave him to it. My daughter did that a few times (still does occasionally) and if I leave her to it, she ends up just falling asleep. They like to practice new skills in the middle of the night.
Sorry its rough for you at the moment. Hope it gets better xx

Same but naps have ALSO been harder 😬 my LO is 6 months next week. His total sleep has been a good hour or two less than his average over the past week. More night wakings and rolling onto his front during a nap and then he can’t fall back to sleep. I’m putting it down to new skills as he’s constantly rolling onto his front. He loves to babble too. Hopefully it will pass sooooon for all of us!

When you wake up and see this…. You know he won’t go back sleep 🫠🙈 practising rolling in the middle of the night is killing me slowly 🫥

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