Early sleep regression?
My baby girl is 11 weeks old, and has always been a fantastic sleeper. As a newborn I would have to wake her for feeds, from week 4/5 she slept in 4 hour stretches, by week 7/8 she was sleeping in 6 hour stretches, only waking once in the night for a feed and a change.
This last week that has gone completely out the window. She’s now waking up every 1.5-2.5 hours, and her daytime naps are non existent, we’re getting 30min naps maybe 3-4 times a day and that’s it. I’m trying hard to follow wake windows but it’s impossible when she won’t go down. I have to assume this is some kind of sleep regression, I know there’s one coming up at 4 months but is it possible she’s getting this early?
She feeds to sleep, so I’m having to feed her constantly throughout the night (she’s fed breast then bottle), and often she’s not even eating, just using the food as comfort.
I’ve always been very specific about making sure I’m making night and day obvious for her - her daytime naps are all done outside of my bedroom, we have a cot downstairs, and I don’t adjust the light or noise in the room. At night she sleeps in a bassinet next to my bed, the room is dark, there’s a little soft red light for nighttime wake ups and I have white noise on throughout the night.
She doesn’t roll yet but is out of her swaddle. She doesn’t seem like she’s about to roll and she’s not using the nighttime wakes to practice. In the last two weeks she has learned how to bring her fists to her mouth and chew on them (can’t tell if maybe she’s teething?). I don’t pick her up when she fusses because I want to give her the opportunity to self settle, but every fuss turns into a cry.
After a week of this I’m starting to crack a little, I’m exhausted, she’s exhausted, my partner works long hours and commutes so isn’t available to help during the day, and my mother who usually can help me is away. Could this be the 4 month sleep regression coming early? Or is there something I’m missing? Is there anything I can do to help this?