5 months old sleep

[raindayrain]

Sorry to start yet another one about baby sleep. I am at my wit’s end and don’t know what to do!
I am EBF my DD who is 5 months old. She was never a great sleeper but when we hit 3 months, she managed to sleep through with one wake up in the night for a feed, until the sleep regression hit at 4 months and she was waking up every 2 hours but that settled after a week. She hasn’t learned to self soothe yet so she needs feeding or rocking to sleep.
Recently, she’s gone back to sleeping worse than a newborn. As an example, this was roughly what happened last night:
20:00 - 20:45 Went down for what I thought was night sleep but she was awake after 45 minutes.
Fed back to sleep, slept from 21:00 to 21:25 woke up crying.
Then had all sorts of cat naps until 11pm when she slept for 45 minutes.
After 1am: she was doing 2 hour stretches and waking up on the dot to feed.

Shes been doing 4x45 mins naps/day.

I really don’t want to co-sleep (she sleeps in a next to me) but this morning we did for a first nap and she stirred a few times, I just gave her a pat/kiss/hand squeeze of a quick feed then she was back asleep. She managed 2 hours this way and woke up really happy.

Is she teething? Is she hungry? Is it eczema? (She’s having emollients every 8 hours applied which seemed to have really helped with that). She’s making plenty of wet nappies.
I am thinking about adding some formula pre bed time: this has never helped her sleep (possibly gave her more GI issues and I subjectively think it makes her eczema worse). Has anyone had experiences with goat milk?

Feeling very sleep deprived. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! x

Are you thinking of goat milk to avoid cows milk? There is a very strong overlap in proteins so that about 90% of people who react to cows milk will also have the same effect with goats milk

I have a 3 year old who has awful sleep. Her sleep is heavily linked to her reflux and allergies. If your little one is struggling with eczema it could be impacting on her sleep. I know when my eczema flares up it stops me from sleeping.

At 5 months it could be teething, have they had any symptoms of silent reflux. I only mention it as teething can make silent reflux so much worse. If they have low levels of reflux but not problematic and are now teething the reflux might be upsetting them

Thank you so much for your advice! I was contemplating whether it’s something in Kendamil that flared up her eczema; although oddly she’s had formula before when she was a newborn when I struggled with supply and tolerated that fine so who knows! It’s interesting to know that goat milk probably won’t solve the issue.