Hello glow mummas!

So for the past few weeks, my 4 month old has been going through sleep regression (or just suddenly sleeping really badly, who knows).

During the day it takes a loooong time to get him down for a nap, and it's normally sleeping on me or falling asleep on the boob as sometimes that's the only way to soothe him. He will sometimes only nap for 20-30 minutes max and only twice a day so by bed time he's exhausted.

Once his dad gets home from work around 7pm, we start getting him ready for bed. We bathe him, do baby massage, I feed him (exclusively breastfeeding) and help him fall asleep. It's the same thing we've been doing for ages but he suddenly started taking up to 2 hours to settle, he will work himself up and scream and cry until he falls asleep on me. We put him down in his bed (it's attached to ours) in his sleeping bag, switch on his Ewan sheep for white noise and normally he stays asleep for a couple of hours.

During the night, he wakes up every 1-2 hours, sometimes for a feed, sometimes just for comfort. Before this it would be once a night. He will normally wake at 7am, but still be really tired so he's incredibly grumpy and the cycle just repeats itself

Does anyone have any tips on what could help him (and me) get some sleep?

Just so you know;

He doesn't like being swaddled at all, he loves his sleeping bag and that's it.

He's not keen on a bottle, will only take from his dad but we'd rather just breastfeed as it works for us (and he's such a boob loving baby!)

I'm not comfortable with bed sharing and my partner is a very heavy sleeper, instead we use a next to me cot.

His favourite way to fall asleep is by using my boob as a dummy, as he flat out refuses one 😅 (tried many different types)

Please send some advice my way!

From one very tired mumma 😅

P.s. picture of my gorgeous little man for attention 😍

April 2022 Babies