Hi, first time dad posting here, hoping that you can help me and my lovely partner through our baby issues.
Having two, probably interlinked problems at the moment with our 4 month boy, the first is that he seems to have hit the dreaded sleep regression stage with gusto - this started 3 weeks ago but seems to not be getting any better (this is particularly painful as we'd managed to get him down to only 1-2 wakeups per night before this point). In general, he will only sleep at night in 2 hour blocks (almost to the minute - if it wasn't so annoying I'd be impressed by his punctuality), and often needs a feed to get back asleep at each wake. At worst, hes up every 45 mins. Needless to say this is becoming a massive drag on both of us in terms of staying awake (as I work full time too). Were having to go to bed very early just to get enough sleep just to vaguely function. Any ideas on how to get him back to how he was before would be gratefully received.
Second problem is that he's suddenly decided that he won't take big feeds from a bottle. He's been mixed fed from very early days and was always good at taking a bottle from me, particularly before bed. Now though, he will generally only take 30-40ml (at any time, not just bed) before either screaming or falling asleep. We've tried all three teat sizes for the Dr browns bottles - size 3 he couldn't quite cope with but he doesn't eat much from size 2. Hes happy on the boob though. Obviously this means I'm useless (or even more useless...) for all the night wake ups,so my partner is much more broken than me by it. Again any tips much appreciated.
Its all building up at the moment, and it feels like we only have 2 months to crack this before he goes to nursery and my partner goes back to work. Although if we have 2 more months of this, we might have gone mad anyway :)
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badgerbadgerbadger · 22/09/2013 22:23
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