5mo disrupted sleep- would you consider this normal?

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Hi mums, my 5mp sleep looks like this most night:
Goes to sleep at 7 and falls asleep pretty easily but wakes up in about 30-60 mins and tosses and turns for another hour or even more! Spits out dodie, then cries telling me he wants it, I give it to him, he spits up again and “asks” for it- I goes on and on and I have to pass dodie about a 100 times.
Then once he is finally asleep he might sleep for an hour maaaaybe two only to wake up again for his bottle around 11pm
Then goes back to sleep easily until about 4am and wakes for bottle again but then doesn’t go back to sleep for another hour tosses and turns, dodie falling out etc. once he finally goes to sleep he will wake up around 7am.
It’s absolutely exhausting. I don’t know if this is normal? I don’t think he is unwell becouse he doesn’t cry, he just tosses in his cot.
My DS1 slept through the night since he was 2 months so I can’t compare really. Someone help me please :(

I used to put it down to the 4 months sleep regression but that can’t be it since it’s been going on since he was 3 months

Sounds normal to me but can imagine if you had a baby that slept through, you’d be horrified! My first didn’t sleep through reliably until she was 3. Both of mine did that waking up 30m after going to sleep thing, so strange. And post 4mo, woke many times per night. We didn’t use a dummy so I’m not sure how helpful or whether that is a hinderance for you, needing to put it back in. With my second I did gradual retreat sleep training at around 8mo, you’re a bit early for that just now tho. I’d suggest just getting all the help you can to survive the next wee while.

This does sound normal tbh. Would you want to attempt weaning off the dummy? My ds hasn't slept through yet and he's almost 3yrs. My dd by comparison is so much better. She's 8mo.

Since he's not crying or upset, could you just leave him to it? Ours makes all sorts of noises when he goes back to bed after a feed but we don't respond unless he cries in which case we put dummy back in (though appreciate can be hard to fall to sleep yourself when you share a room, as we do)

Do you use white noise? Sometimes turning up the volume (as loud as someone having a shower in the same room) lets him fall off to sleep quicker

I think anything goes at that age. If he's not crying I'd just leave him to it. Earplugs are your friends while you're sharing a room.

Thanks all, yes I use white noise and it does help.
I think it’s a bit too early to wean off the dodie as I know they have that sucking reflex until 6 mo.
I tried not passing the dodie back but he will then eventually start crying and soothes back the second dodie is back in his mouth- so definitely still needs it.
I weaned my DS1 at 8 months for this exact reason (was passing it over to him about 100 times per night). And I’m definitely planning to do this again but think it’s a little too early.

Oh yes I do wear earplugs, otherwise I think I’d have about 30 mins sleep per night :(
Problem is it’s so hard for me to go back to sleep and when I finally do sleep baby decides to wake up then

Normal for babies with dummies. I’d just get rid of the dummy, expect 3 or 4 tough nights and be done with it.

Once the dummy is disturbing rather than aiding sleep it’s time to drop it imo.

My baby is 5 months and just this past week we took away his dummy because we were getting up so many times in the night to put it back in.

The first couple of days/nights were tough but we stayed with him the whole time shushing and patting and now he goes to sleep relatively easily (we're still there to comfort and shush and pat if needed) and if he stirs he gets back off on his own.

@Rumples you and PPs might be right. I know it was the best decision ever when we took away the dummy for our then 8 months old. It got to the point where we would be literally up all night passing it. So we took it away cold turkey and just like others here we had a rough 2 or 3 night and then our lives changed for the best:))
It might be an option to take it away this early, I do feel a little guilty though cos he is still so small. But I have to consider it I think