5 month old waking every 2 hours

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Hi all. DS is 5 months old, very happy and healthy. But still sleeps like a newborn! He normally wakes every 2 hours, sometimes every 3 or every 1.5 hours, but usually every 2. He has NEVER gone longer than 4.

He is EBF and usually seems hungry when he wakes, although occasionally may go back to sleep if rocked. He is a very big boy, 20lbs and in 9-12 month clothes! It isn't a sleep regression as he's always been like this.

I am beyond exhausted. I also have a DD and she was sleeping 5-6 hours straight from 8 weeks so this is new to me. I'm in a couple of due date groups and the majority seem to be either sleeping through or only waking once. Feels like I'm doing something wrong!

Sorry OP but mine did this till about 1 year. He's nearly 4 and still rarely sleeps through. He's just not food at self settling in the night. Some children just aren't good sleepers. I found when I accepted it and stopped fighting it then I felt better.

Perfectly normal for a 5 month old. It’s hard, but it will get better.
My little one was the same, he was breastfed and in 9-12m clothing at that age too! Turned 1 and up once during the night, normally patted back to sleep. No sleep training needed.

I actually don’t know anyone who’s baby slept through so young, general consensus is that people tell lies because they’re sick of people telling them to 1) sleep train 2) start solids early 3) put baby in their own room/ bed etc.

stay strong mamma!

Mine was the same until a few days. I did some very gentle sleep training. It didn't even involve more than 5 mins of crying and now she sleeps 6-8 hrs in a row.

No such thing as ‘gentle’ sleep training (to a previous poster). If you’re going to sleep train just own it, don’t try and sugarcoat it

OP - I know it isn’t what you want to hear but it’s perfectly normal for babies to wake up overnight - that’s what they’re meant to do. Yeah some people are lucky and have babies that sleep through but that’s certainly not biologically normal

Exactly this for me too

Maybe try to feed him up before bed and get him to self settle to sleep.... Sleep training?

Of course there is?

Normal. We decided to sleep train at about this stage.

Could you give him a bottle of formula at 10pm. That used to see mine through tilll 6 am