After blessing us with 6-8 hr sleep stretches and only a single night feeding pretty regularly for the past month and a half, the 3 month sleep regression that I had been warned about hit right at 14 weeks when Sonia started consistently adding back in her midnight feeding. Then, the last two nights, she added back in even a 3rd night feeding! Between this and Luna barking at the neighbors in the late evening hours, I feel like I’ve been waking up at least once an hour all night long! Now that I’m back at work, this is extra brutal.
Other Mommies have told me that this could be just a week long developmental burst and/or growth spurt, or it could be the start of a couple rough months where breast milk isn’t enough to fill her up all night, but she is not yet ready for solids, or where her sense of being in the world outpaces her ability to self-soothe.
Sonia has been making a lot of progress on developmental milestones such as tummy time, self-soothing with her fingers, laughing, mimicking sounds, and sitting up in the past couple weeks. She also crossed 12 lbs recently, and the Nanny could swear she looked and felt bigger on Monday morning than she did on Friday afternoon!
So here’s hoping this is just a temporary setback and we get our good sleeper back soon. Either way, though, I’m truly loving seeing Sonia slowly become Sonia – it’s a beautiful thing!