EllaElla

As everyone else has said - completely normal. Both of my babies so far have been great sleepers from 7 weeks until they hit about 4 months old and decide to turn my world upside down with their night waking. It does get better over time, but it is a very difficult stage.

There are different things you can try to help your baby sleep, but it depends on your own beliefs about sleep and what sort of parenting style you adopt as to the different things you can try to help your DS sleep.

I used the Tweedle method (in the book Sleep Right Sleep Tight) but it is a settling technique you use with babies without picking them up. Some people aren't comfortable with this and prefer to pick their babies up and cuddle them. Whatever you feel comfortable with - as long as you are consistently doing the same things at sleep time every time. Babies eventually learn from consistency that these are sleep time messages and start to learn to go to sleep when you send this messages.

There is no such thing as a quick fix for this stage unfortunately. Just time and consistency and seek support from other parents who have been through the same thing. If you have someone you can trust to leave your baby with for a few hours once a week so you can catch up on some sleep might also be useful in helping you cope with this very difficult stage (or arrange for your DP to take DS out for a couple of hours so you can get some sleep). It is very difficult, but you need to try and take care of yourself in this stage to and get sleep whenever you can.

I really wish I had the answer for this whole issue but just know that you are not alone and it does get better.