3 month sleep regression

My 3 month old is up every hour recently! Is this common? Is it normal? Please tell me I'm not alone in this ...

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My 3 month old is the same, doesn’t sleep longer than 2 hours at a time anymore! Not sure what’s going on!

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Same here and mine can stay for more than 4 hrs and have only 30 min nap btw the 4 hrs

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I thought I was the only one! My 3month old has gone back to newborn sleeping pattern, sleeping 1-2hours and waking up for a feed at night and during the day he will only nap 30-40mins and on the very rare occasion 1hour.

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Yeah my boy can't make it any longer than 4 hours between feeds of a night. He tricked me and did two nights of sleeping all the way through but now back to 4hrs.
It's funny because my eldest slept through from 8 weeks and even when he hit the 4 month regression he still was sleeping through.
They both are following the pattern of 30/40 minute naps the main difference is my eldest wouldn't go back to sleep and was pretty content on short naps. My June baby will wake up and still be tired, will be screaming and ,9 times out of 10 will need help connecting the sleep cycles in order to have a longer nap.
Took for granted having a full night's sleep that's for sure!

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We hit this at week 9, just getting through it now at week 13

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My 3 month old used to sleep through the whole night with only one wake up for a feed and change around 2/3 am now she is awake every 2 hours throughout the night and through the day she used to have 2 short naps and one long one of 2/3 hours now I’m lucky if she sleep one hour lol

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Yep my boy is 3 months and used to sleep through from about 9 or 10pm until 8 am and now is constantly waking up! He’s not wanting feeds in the night just really unsettled 😩

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Exactly the same. He’s never been a great sleeper, but now he’s up every hour in the night!

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Same as mine. Was never a good sleeper but would at least give me 2-3 hours at a time. Now he’s up every hour and sometimes even less 😭 and wakes up crying (not always for a feed). We are co sleeping as well!

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Also going through this was hoping we are on the way out after 6 days as last night was every 2 hours all night - before that we had from 1am up every hour 🫠 but god knows!!

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Its totally normal! Its because their brains are developing and theyre learning new things. You may find that they have one every 2 months.

My eldest was the same every 2 month he would regress but it was because he had just learned something

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