We have a 3.5 month old who used to be a decent sleeper, falling asleep independently and sleeping 4-5 hour long stretches at night. But day light savings hit and it completely messed up his sleep, and for the last month he hates sleeping! Won’t sleep unless one of us holds him to our chest the entire time, day or night.
We may get away with one 1-1.5 hours in the bassinet for one stretch overnight if he’s shattered, but that’s it for the rest of the night he just refuses any non-contact sleep. We are completely sleep deprived, we take it in shifts holding him, still continuing to offer the crib every 30 mins or so, and I’m still breastfeeding him exclusively so offering him feeds to comfort him.
We have talked about our struggles with friends and family and EVERYONE pushes co-sleeping as the only way we can get through this. To me that’s just a bandaid not actually fixing the problem, as he used to be fine sleeping in the bassinet! Plus, it’s just far too risky for me to accept this as an option ever because we lost our first baby last year, he passed away due to his complications from surgery not SIDs, however it still makes me extremely reluctant to even consider something like co sleeping on the off chance something bad happens and we lose our second too.
I find it crazy that more people have suggested co-sleeping to me than sleep training! Surely that might actually fix his sleep over a bed with him 🤷♀️