My daughter is almost 5 months old. She was pretty good at self settling for a while snd was giving me three hour stretches at night in between feeds. She’s breastfed. She
However just before Christmas she got sick and had an awful cough / cold for almost three weeks. She was waking up every hour so I’d just feed her back to sleep. Figured she needed the fluids. I tried Patting her to sleep as that sometimes works but it tried it for a little bit as felt mean with her being ill. Same with self settling for naps. I usually let her moan away for a bit but with her being sick I’d rock her to sleep or pat her until she went down.
However she’s now better and won’t self settle for naps (bed time was always a fight anyway) and is waking every hour or two and the only thing that’ll get her back to sleep is boob. She’s on that much she’s leaking out her nappy by the morning as she’s drank so much. The nappy is almost as heavy as her!!
Don’t know how to get back to normal- I feel she’s picked up habits as she was sick for so long :( but I just did what I thought was best while she was feeling crappy. although I’m wondering if it’s mixed in with the regression??
I’m just exhausted..any advice or input would be really helpful!