Sleep regression or what? (and snoring)

[shamrockerjo]

Maya has been a good sleeper since she was about 8 weeks however in the past few days it's completely changed. She normally either falls asleep on me after her last feed and I put her into her cot, sometimes she stirs a little but always goes back to sleep without me having to pick her up again. But lately it's just been such a struggle! She falls asleep on me as normal but the second I put her down she wakes up and starts whinging and if I don't pick her up it turns into proper crying. Last night for example, she fell asleep just after 7, I put her down, she slept for no longer than 20mins, started crying, I picked her up, she fell asleep, put her down, woke up straight away, picked her up, fell asleep, put her down, woke up.. and it went on like that til 10 and by then she was wide awake, smiling, wanting to play! She has never been like that before. We were up til midnight and by then I was so tired I popped her into the sling and within 15 minutes she fell asleep. I brought her into our bed as she always always always sleeps much better with us and I was so exhausted I didn't really feel like running between her room and our room all night in case she kept waking up. So anyway, she stayed asleep maybe for an hour or so but after that, kept stirring a lot for most of the night, sometimes whinging and sometimes just wanting to play. And then this morning she was up at 6, all smiles and wanting to play. Last night she was crying quite a bit in between falling asleep on me and being put down into her cot and I thought maybe it was to do with teething so I gave her some calpol but that didn't seem to do anything and today she's just her usual self. So what's going on? Is this sleep regression/growth spurt or what? We've never struggled with growth spurts before so I don't really know. How do you ladies cope with no sleep? I had clearly forgotten the early days of sleepless night and been spoiled by getting plenty of sleep as I feel like I just can't cope now at all. It also doesn't help that when Maya does settle and we could get some sleep my husband starts snoring so loudly it either keeps me awake or wakes me up if I've managed to fall asleep somehow. It's gotten worse since Maya started sleeping in her own room as we used to have a fan to block out the snoring a bit but now I don't want it on as I want to be able to hear Maya properly if she stirs. But it does mean I only ever get a few hours of sleep at night now and even that is broken. Ugh. What do I do, I feel like I'm losing my mind

I'm sorry for such a long rant, my head is so all over the place I can't even think straight.. But if any of you ladies have any tips on improving Maya's sleep or even just words of encouragement it would be greatly appreciated. Oh and also any tips on how to cope with the snoring!! I don't want us to sleep in separate bedrooms as we already did for most of the pregnancy as I struggled with sleep then too and it was horrible

 

[LankyDoodle]

Maya is 4 months ish old. It's normal at this stage. You just need to hear it from other people and know it gets better.

There is a lot going on right now - growth spurt (a massive one), sleep cycle is changing and their sleep is becoming lighter... they don't go straight into deep sleep like they did upto about 3m old.

I had insomnia from 28-40 weeks and have still not fully recharged after only 6 hours sleep throughout my 72 hours of early and active labour. We will get through this. It won't last forever. Then we will be moaning they sleep too much and never clean their rooms lol.

 

[littleblonde]

Kacey went throught this as more or less the exact same time.They have a big development spurt and sometimes a growth one as well. kacey never had problems with any spurt apart from this one. It only lasted a few days for us but can be a few weeks. At the end of it kacey could do a few new things. There are many threads on it. think there is even a let surport each other through it whic h may haver soem tips. It is very common for babys that have priviously slept throught to be like a newborn again. the good news it they will go back to there normal sleep after. The bad news is that there is no time limit. When kacey went through it she went from sleeping 12 hours to waking every hour or 2. And when she did sleep she was more unsettled. She didnt seem to eat more.