I have a baby, just turned 5 months.
She is breastfed, and I usually feed her to sleep as she doesn't settle any other way in her cot. Won't take a bottle or dummy. She will fall asleep in the day if in the car or pushchair but this isn't helpful in the middle of the night. She has three naps per day now.
For the first few months of her life, baby slept fine, woke up at 1am and 4am for a feed and went back down. I felt smug and rejoiced in how easy parenting was going to me for me - hah!
More recently she will go down okay for the first stretch at 7pm, but any wakes after 1am-ish are a nightmare. She just wants to be fed and fed and fed, and cries when put in her cot even if she had stopped feeding and fallen asleep 15 mins before the point of transfer!
Even if I do successfully put her down in her cot after a feed, she then wakes every hour and will only settle by being fed.
I am sure she isn't hungry, as feeds well all through the day plus feeds at night, and has started having some solids before bath and bed.
Calpol has made no difference so don't think she's in pain.
The room is temperature controlled and she has appropriate clothes/sleeping bag on.
She won't accept being rocked back to sleep by me or DH - she just cries and cries and cries, and with me she tries to wriggle down to my breast.
So. How can I settle her another way and stop feeding her to sleep without her being distressed? How can I ensure she gets more sleep? (I have accepted that my sleep will be poor, am more concerned about her not getting enough rest).
All and any advice welcome. Thanks in advance wonderful people!