Changes in sleeping patterns at 12 weeks
We co-sleep. My daughter has slowly been sleeping longer stretches at night, from 4 hours in a row to 6 and finally a week ago she slept 8 hours straight twice. Then, ever since the 8 hours night she has suddenly been waking up every 2-3 hours again. She wakes up and wiggles so much, sometimes if I hold her she will go back to sleep but often I end up feeding her to make her sleep.
Would that be considered a sleep regression? I'm so exhausted now, I was getting used to longer stretches 😭

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Not sure if it would be considered a sleep regression but this exact thing happened with my daughter around 7 weeks. She usually only slept 3 hours stretches  with 2 night feeds, but then around the 7 week mark she suddenly started sleeping 5-6 hours straight for 4 nights in a row with only one night feed before suddenly going back to 3 hours a night. It made me more exhausted than if it had just continued at the 3 hours because my body got greedy and used to the longer stretches. Now she’ll be 9 weeks on Wednesday and we’ve only had one 5 hour stretch in the last week and a half. Most nights we barely get to 3 hour stretches again. It’s both physically and mentally exhausting! 😫
Same here! 😭
Yes this is a normal part of development and typically happens around this time and a few other times during the first year.
Experiencing something very similar! Our daughter had been sleeping 9-6/7 with one feed and no other wakeups since about 6 weeks. She is almost 12 weeks now and all the sudden has trouble going down, is waking more often and won't seem to stay sleeping past 5am unless she is held. Maybe it's a precursor to the 4 month sleep regression?
Normal stages.
Everytime they learn a new skill, hit a growth spurt, teeth, don't feel well etc there sleep changes.

My little guy has me up 3x a night currently. It's was 2 for awhile, before that it was 6 lol
My 2 other kids get up at 6am. 🥱
Hes 14 weeks currently.
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