Waking at night

[Palomamama]

Hi my baby is 20 weeks old from 15 weeks my baby's sleep has changed I thought this is temporary but I don't see this sleep pattern ending this is why I need some mums advice. So from 15 weeks my baby started to wake up every 5-10 min and from 17 week 20-30 min from 18 weeks from 1-2 hour and then from 18 to 19 weeks old started to wake up every 3 hour for feed at night but now she just finished 20 week and from 2 nights she's waking up again every 10-20 minutes and she won't sleep more than 3 hours but when she was about 12 weeks old she was sleeping for 5-6 hour stretch so I don't know what could be possibly be going on she take 90-120 mls of her bottle but she seems full afterwards and don't want bo more.in the day she feeds 90-120 mls every 2 hours. Would appreciate any advice

Sleep isn’t linear. It gets better and worse all the time for the next few years. Seeping 2 to 3 a time at 20 weeks is perfectly normal.

I’m assuming no from your description you are ff. Are you doing paced and responsive feeding, including allowing the baby to decide when they have had enough so there is milk left in the bottle?

Yes of course I put in the bottle 150mls of milk but she only takes sometimes 90 or 120 mls and then she pulls her head away bites on the teat so she's showing me that she's had enough.

Google the 4-month sleep regression, it is a permanent change in your baby’s sleep, and it is a notoriously difficult period for parents. There are a lot of posts about it on here too, so do a search. In short, you just have to ride it out. It’s called the 4-month regression but can hit anywhere from 3-6 months (my DD got hit by it at 5-months and took 6 weeks to start doing longer stretches). It’s about surviving, and many end up co-sleeping through it to try and maximise sleep (I did and it saved my sanity)

It wasn’t a criticism. I was just asking. Lack of sleep is brutal. Eventually they sleep through and then life gets much easier.

Hi canyoutoleratethis
She has a next to me crib so we are co sleeping but this Is really tireing its been going on for 5 weeks now I thought its getting better but now are 20 weeks and we going back to phase one again.

I found the 4-month regression very up and down - it wasn’t a smooth path from ‘shit’ to ‘ok’. As the PP said, sleep isn’t linear, and that’s true about individual regressions and sleep in general. Other options could include teething or baby being cold. If you’ve checked on both of those possibilities, then it’s just regression and it will pass, eventually.