u/corvidelia

We got through newborn sleep issues and things were looking up for a while, but once we hit 15 weeks, my baby does this thing where he starts crying and screaming...but he's asleep. And I know this because I go into his room, his eyes are all screwed up, but when I pick him up, he quiets down immediately and is conked out. We settle him, put him back in the bassinet, he sleeps a bit more, and starts crying again 20 minutes later.

Overall, sleep the past week or so has been very broken, so I'm assuming this is the fabled 4 month regression, and I get that we just gotta get through it. But the screaming! Everything I've seen online has recommended to just wait it out, he might be transitioning sleep cycles, don't wake a sleeping baby, but we've waited 5, 10 minutes, he doesn't stop screaming! Last night (now 17 weeks), he screamed himself hoarse, and when I got him to chill out and relax, it was maybe 10 minutes of respite before it started again. In the past, I could get him to quiet by nursing, but that didn't work last night, so I decided to cosleep (safe sleep 7, not looking for opinions on this), and we got 6 blessed hours.

This only happens at night, naps are totally fine so far, but has anyone gone through something similar? I wasn't planning on doing cry it out for sleep training, but also I wasn't planning on doing any training until 6 months. Do I just have to get through this phase? Would love advice.

We have a tiny un-updated kitchen which feels tight on the best days and we're trying to figure out ways to optimize what we have. The main thing I've been zeroing in on recently is the dining situation. We do eat at that table (despite the junk on it in the photo), but it just feels awkward in the space, especially next to the alcove.

I've been thinking about doing a banquette/dining nook in that alcove for months, but I'm not sure if it would help our problem. I included an example I found on pinterest for what I'm interested in, and a drawn out floor plan. I think it would be a backless bench just beneath the window frame, and we'd replace our table with a single leg one. Ideally our kids would sit on the bench, and we could replace that overhead light with one we cool hang from a hook closer to the nook table.

Would this work for our space, or would we have the same cramped issue? Does the flow work, or would it make the tight galley kitchen worse? Does our kitchen just suck?

Baby screaming hysterically in sleep

Optimizing kitchen: dining nook?