Possible sleep regression?!

[Chelsatto]

i have a little boy who is 5 months 12 days old..for just over a month we’ve been going through a sleep regression I believe..
we have never had a problem with sleep even when he was newborn we were really lucky! However the last 6 weeks+ it turned upside down haha. We have stuck to the same routine of bath, bottle & bed since he was newborn between 7-8pm.
he will have a farleys, a bath, 7oz bottle, bed. Then he will wake between 10-11pm for 6-7oz. Then every 2-3 hours after for 2-4oz, then after 4am its constant stirring, just really unsettled, he’ll have 1-2oz an hour and then we’re up for 7am, this has been the case for over 6 weeks now and its really starting to take its toll :(
we have a night light and lullabies playing to go to sleep, and throughout the night the lullabies play and the bedroom stays dark.
he will have 2-3 naps a day, mostly 30 minutes, sometimes 1.5 hours if I’m lucky haha. He does have a dummy, and will settle on his own to sleep, in the evenings for bed I’ll give his bottle and put him in the cot awake, within 5 minutes he’s asleep no fighting it.
he is cross cutting teething and has been for 2 months almost, but no teeth yet! Just very red hands, lots of dribble and hard lumps on gums.
does anyone have any tips or recommendations please?

I don’t mean to dismiss you, so I hope this doesn’t come across that way, but if my similar aged baby slept for 3 hours at a time until 4 am then an hour at a time until 7am I’d be absolutely ecstatic. He’s sleeping for 12 hours other than waking for food, this sounds pretty good? Especially if it is a regression which he will grow out of anyway. is anything happening at 4am that could be disturbing him?
Can you shift it slightly so he starts the 12 hours a bit later and you go to bed a bit earlier? Or drop the farleys which is quite sugary and quickly digested so maybe isn’t keeping him very full. Is he weaning? Maybe the more food he starts to eat during the day the fuller he will be?

I don’t know, from the sounds of things I’m probably not the one to give advice…

This is all pretty normal. Sleep does get disrupted around this time when they are learning to roll and beginning to teethe and starting solids. You just go to bed at 7-8pm as soon as he does. And if you are bottle feeding and have a partner, your partner does feeds the first half of the night so you can get a solid chunk of sleep before 4am comes around. When my first was 6 months, she was literally waking every 30 minutes due to teething.

Yeah I understand it’s normal, I just wasn’t expecting it to be this long with no signs of improvement. He’s been rolling and sitting for about a month now. And also teething for about 2. It’s just taking its toll.
I go to bed with him and then will do the 10pm feed then my partner will do until 3/4am as he works, then I will do from 4am, but I cannot sleep when he’s awake, I hear him and my partner will get him and change/feed and I’ll be awake, I’m unsure why I know he’s safe and being looked after haha

It’s not as if he sleeps 3 hours, change, feed and settle again is 30 minutes. And 3 hours is lucky, sometimes it’s 1.5-2 hourly, it’s been far from fun lol.
it doesn’t have to be farleys he has I can try him with porridge or baby rice and it makes no difference he’s still the same. If he doesn’t have it then he’s awake for a bottle within 2 hours. After 4am it’s pretty pointless going to sleep as he’s just stirring continuously, I will try with bottle for him to have 1oz out him back to his cot and he’ll be settled for all of 5 minutes before he’s tossing turning and getting upset.
yes he’s weaning, he will have porridge/baby rice/veg around 1-3pm, then farleys/porridge/baby rice about 20/30 minutes before his bath and bed

My baby goes down at 10 and gets up at 6 and wakes every hour in between. Im also breastfeeding so I get no help, and this has been the case since birth. When we have a regression baby wakes every 20-30mins, for days (or weeks) at a time or refuses to sleep entirely. When I hear about people who are similar or worse, it shouldn’t but it does make me feel better and less alone, especially when things always seem worse around 2/3am so that’s why I’m telling you this. I appreciate you’re tired and my situation doesn’t change that for you, so again I’m not trying to be dismissive but sort of show some solidarity in the lack of sleep and also say it could be much much worse!
In your case, you can get quite a bit of sleep here, admittedly heavily broken sleep at not very ideal hours, but still you can get some sleep. Even with waking he must be asleep for at least 8 hours probably more like 10 or 11 hours. You might just have to shift your day around to ‘sleep when baby sleeps’ until this is over.
Also, when did you start giving farleys? Your post suggests a while ago, did the sleep change line up with introduction to food? Is it possible he’s gassy and uncomfortable, his digestive system has suddenly got a lot more to handle.

Sorry just saw your update. It might be gas that’s keeping him up? Have you tried some bicycle kicks and things like that to see?
can you switch to other food instead of rice / porridge, just to see if the change in what foods he’s dealing with night help him?
i think you can get ‘hungry baby’ formula too, would that help?