Is there a 7/8 week regression?
My little one has just turned 8 weeks and up until last week, it was so easy to settle him and put him to sleep. Now unless he’s in the car or in the body carrier I can’t get him to sleep and when he finally falls asleep and I take him out of the carrier or the car he wakes up instantly. On a nighttime he was sleeping 4 hours, wake for feed and back to sleep after a half an hour, now he’s waking up after 1.5/2 hours and taking 2-3 hours to go back to sleep.
Is there such thing as a regression at this stage or am I doing something wrong?
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You are not doing anything wrong.. and to be fair there isn’t a thing as a regression really. Baby’s sleep changes all the time. My baby is now 15 months and her sleep is up and down still. 8week old is a tiny baby still learning and developing constantly. As they grow and learn new skills their sleep changes. What works now might not work in a few months let’s say. Their wake windows are getting older as they grow up. Try and sleep when the baby sleeps if the baby will only contact nap then so be it. Don’t try to beat yourself up for it.
We had the same thing happen at around 8 weeks, and I was also wondering if I was doing something wrong! But I‘d say that after about 1-2 weeks it slowly started to go back to how it used to be. So it was just a phase!
I remember 6-8 weeks being really difficult for fussiness. I think it’s a normal developmental thing
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