Sleeping advice please - exhausted mum

[dancingqueen03]

Hi I'm a ftm to a DS of a 5mo

For the past week and a half he has been sleeping longer at night 7-5am but that has suddenly changed these past few days he's been waking up at 3am for a good hour just chatting away, rolling over on just general moving around he doesn't want his feed so I tend to just leave him to it replacing his dummy a few times then he will eventually drop back off but only till
5am

I'm exhausted 😴 I do everything I can think of to help him with this I watch his wake windows during the day (2.5/3 hours at a time) I make sure he has enough day time naps on average he has 3 hours (not a great day sleeper) he has had the same bedtime routine since he was 2 months old bath bottle bed for 7/7:30 latest he's still in our room in a next to me crib has white noise on and our room has a blackout bling up

I guess I'm just after some advice, is there anything I'm doing wrong or can I do anything else to maybe eliminate the 3am wake up call or the 5am even just till 6 as it makes him so unsettled and grumpy during the day

As he's not waking because he's hungry/thirsty/dirty nappy, I'd be inclined to assume it's because it's light and change his day naps accordingly.

It was around this time that my kids dropped all daytime naps ( I know that's not the usual for most babies though), but I found that I could only get them to sleep well at night if I kept them awake through the day. (They both fought sleep during the day by 5 mths of age)

It worked well for me, and it just meant an earlier bedtime, so they slept 6pm to 6am from then on.

Both my kids are now adults, so I'm sure my advice is not the 'current' advice, but as a tired parent I know you'd try anything to get a better nights sleep

I wish you good luck, whatever you try.

My DS started waking up at 4am around 5months old (He is 7month next week). We figured it was the light coming in so we bought a blackout blind and that seemed to help. We have a window at both ends of our bedroom so putting a blind up at one seemed to help. He tends to sleep until between 5.15 and 6.30.

Thanks for this replying I think sometimes knowing it's not just me helps

@PlantingGreen yeah Iv bought a blackout blind for our window so I'll keep using that (we took it down last week due to the hot weather it made the room so hot due to it attracting the sun) so maybe that's caused the 3am wake up call

Hopefully this is a very quick phase and he will eventually either drop the 3am chat or sleep past 5