Quick summary. DS went through a brief "good" sleeping phase of waking 1-2x a night..then at 13/14 weeks he seemed to hit the dreaded 4 month sleep regression. We're now coming up to 24 weeks and things aren't any better! The main problem I'm having is that from around 2am he refuses to go back into his cot and howls unless he is held by me/sleeping on my tummy. If I do this he goes to sleep almost immediately. I've tried letting him co-sleep again (he normally sleeps in his cot but co-sleeps from time to time) but he even howls doing this. Out of desperation for rest I've been letting him sleep on me, but he's almost 6 months old now and I can't keep doing this!! DH and I need some rest, and we want to move DS into his own room this weekend so we can have our space back.
-we have had a good bedtime routine since 5 weeks (and DS would sleep 7pm-3am from 9 weeks-13 weeks) but he's now waking every 30minutes/hour from bedtime until I go to bed and needing resettled.
-As much as possible I put DS to bed sleepy but awake.
- DS is EBF, refuses bottles, and has a full feed about every 2 hours overnight (he's definitely hungry)
-I'm not going to introduce solids until 26 weeks. I'm working really hard on trying to get him to eat more during the day.
-I've tried leaving fabric in his cot that smells of me or had breast milk on it but it doesn't help.
-I've tried introducing a comforter but he's not very interested.
I can just about cope with the frequent feeds, and evening waking but I need to sleep in between!! Does anyone have any ideas of how I can get DS to stay in his cot!!
