I really hope one of you lovely ladies has some kind of advice for me :(
I am a FTM and my beautiful DD has never slept well - ever. However since she was about 16 weeks it has gone from bad to worse, and for the last probably 4 months or so she has woken every 45 mins all night long.
Sometimes like last night she will sleep as little as 15 minutes before waking again. For a while I was coping with this as she was relatively easy to settle back down again, however now she is spending more of the night awake than asleep, as every time she wakes it can take me up to an hour to get her back to sleep again. Multiple times this week she has been awake for long stretches, such as between 11pm and 2am, last night it was between 3am and 5am.
She has been slow to pick up weaning but is offered 3 meals a day, even if she only eats a few tea spoons as I was wondering if she was hungry. However when she wakes she doesnt really want to feed (I am EBF) she will just comfort suck if i let her. She will not go down sleepy but awake, she will either fall asleep eventually while feeding or me and my partner will rock her if that doesn't work.
Please tell me what to do :( is this something she will eventually grow out of? Or do I need to consider a more hands on approach such as CIO (I didn't want to go down this route really but I will if it will work!) I also want to say im not expecting a miracle, but if she would just sleep maybe 2 or 3 hours in one stretch I feel like I could recover!
Sorry for the waffle and thank you for any help.