Help
My 5.5 month old is somehow continually getting worse sleep. Around 2-3 months he was sleeping from 7-8pm ish til 3-4 am ish to eat consistently,( even got a few 8-6 nights) then would sleep til around 6 and eat again, and sometimes nap til 8-9. A week or so after he turned 4 months he started the frequent wakings more like around a 1 am wake up, then again around 4 and 6 roughly. That lasted a few weeks. Now over the past week he has gotten much worse. He gets put to bed between 7-8 pm, based on when he was wakes up from his final nap. Hes waking up within an hour of being put down, sometimes less that 20 min, and is absolutely screaming sobbing when he gets up. And that continues hourly all night long. No swollen gums or visible teething. He’s been doing the drooling and chewing everything for 2 months and no change in that. He’s passing gas easily at night.
He use to be easy to settle overnight. He would wake up, diaper change, eat, and go back down no tears. On bad nights, the second half of the night after the 3 am feed he would co sleep, but always make it the majority of the the night in the bassinet. Now even being held doesn’t help him sleep. He seems upset held and rocked, in his bassinet, or in my bed out of desperation. Nothing is helping us get any sleep.
He recently transitioned to 3 naps a day. Wake windows around 1.75/2/2/2.5 roughly depending on tired cues. He gets between 3-4 hrs of nap time over the 3 naps. Usually ends up being 3 hr 45 min. Prior when he was doing the 4 naps a day he was having a lot of issues napping during the day and fighting sleep, but the new nap schedule helped a lot to where he goes down easily for naps and 50% of the time makes it though a nap non contact once sat down.
Is he over tired ? Under tired ? Just a regression? Teething ? Is something wrong I’m missing ? Anyone have any advice or a similar issue ??