Night time sleep only 45 minutes!

[Ashmum0304]

Can anyone offer any advice or do I have to just ride this out?!
My daughter is 8 weeks old and sleeps well the first half of the night - maybe 4 or 5 hours, she then wakes and has a mammoth feed, takes quite a long time to go back to sleep and then only goes back down for 45 mins at a time 😫
I know that’s the length of a sleep cycle but if she can link them in the first half of the night why not the second?!
I (mostly) feed her to sleep at night which I also know may cause issues in the future but it’s working for us just now I’m planning on working on that when she gets a little older maybe past 12 weeks.

I’m getting so frustrated with these short sleeps and lots of the time I can’t sleep during them because I’m waiting for her to wake up again!

[LouiseTrees]

What’s her sleep like during the day?

[Ashmum0304]

She’s naps well enough, gets one or two naps of 1.5 or 2 hours, but only on me! Wakes the second I put her down....
At night goes into her cot fine though (we have a next to me type one).

[Bleepers]

We had this and spoke to a sleep consultant who said that as our baby got older she would start being able to sleep longer after she woke up the first time and that it was completely normal to have one big chunk and then less. That's exactly what happened to us - she now sleeps 7-7 with one or two wke ups in between. She's 6 months. I know it's really brutal but it does get better x

[Ashmum0304]

@Bleepers good to know it’s ‘normal’ I guess we just have to plod on then and be grateful we tend to get a decent chunk in the first half of the night!
Did you implement anything to help or did it come naturally in the end?

[FATEdestiny]

Have you tried settling her with a dummy instead of feeding to sleep?