Im suddenly up every HOUR...will this pass ??

[mbear]

Im hoping your all gonna say its a developmental stage....H is 17 weeks. Has always gone to sleep around 730pm (no problems, will often be put to bed awake, and self settles), he used to wake around 12-1am....then 4am....then around 7am. Fine, great, could handle this. NOW (for the past 4 nights or so) its been every 1hour to 1.5 hrs....im JUST surviving today (last night was every hour...). I dont know whats wrong....for the first time in 4 babies, last night in the midst of tears and frustration, i said to my DH im going the formula route.....ive realised now how regretful that would be for me, but i cannot, cannot keep getting up every hour. He wants to feed, has a few sucks, then will fall asleep.....hes nearly 7kgs - so clearly not a starving little boy....I would do anything, anything for a 3-4 hr block of sleep.....Do you t hink its just a phase??? a really, really short, over and done with now phase i hope....

[AliBaby]

Okay my DD did the same thing. Almost the same patterns as you described.

I felt like i was going insane

It will pass. Our really bad stage lasted a couple of weeks. I remember sleeping on the floor of DD's room on a mattress as I just couldnt see the point in leaving the room when I would be back in within the hour, hour and a half tops. I had quite a few break downs and talking to my/ whinging to my Baby buddies helped me alot.

I hope you get some more sleep soon and that this phase passes.

[~Trish~]

I'm sure it is a phase . Have you heard of 4 month sleep regression? If you Google it, you will find a lot of info about it. A lot of babies go backwards in their sleeping habits at this age, my DS2 did, it was shocking! The good news is that he was back to sleeping well at 5 months of age. Hopefully this passes really soon for you, you're doing a great job .

[AliBaby]

I was going to mention that I was going to go down the formula path as well. even bought a tin and boiled water up but then didnt do it. It did get better in time.

[~Trish~]

After a bit of Googling, 17 weeks is listed as a "Wonder Week", so you are definitely not alone .

[Willow]

Was gonna say the same thing Mbear, pretty sure 17 weeks is a 'wonder week' so just hang in there and ride it out!

[briggsy's girl]

wonder week is anywhere from 15-19 weeks so it's very possible you're going through exactly that at the moment hun. it is a short period of absolute crap for both of you, but it will get better. if you jump into the may 16-31 baby buddies thread, i have actually posted the main things you'll notice during this wonder week cos we're all going through it.
hope it's over pretty soon for you - E seems to have started being much happier agian the past couple of days so i'm hoping it's over for us now

[Ozziehoffy]

Oh yes!!! I remember this just recently myself and was BESIDE myself thinking what was wrong. I even called my doc after a few days and he checked him all over to make sure there was no reasons but he said he thought it was just a phase. Well, lucky for him (lol) it was and we're back to sometimes going from 10 - 7am to waking just a couple of times like last night 1:30 and 4:30am. I think it lasted about 2 weeks and the 1 hour nightly waking was the worst but it was only a few times I think and it was average 2-3 hourly but was very tiring. ... mother mantra, this too shall pass.

[mbear]

Thanks girls - esp Trish...i tend not to google, but i did in this instance. Tis funny, when DH came home from work last night we were sat at the dinner table and was raving about you telling me to google like you were my sister or something...so thank you - it did reassure me.

Last night was better. Down at 730pm. Up at 11pm. Then 315am...then 530am, and up at 7am for the day. This is more like my boy....but well aware now that things can only get better from the other nights...it cant get any worse than those days.

Today - feeling human again.....

[olive]

hun, i hope things continue to improve for you