6 month old waking every 45 minutes, I'm breaking

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Help! My 6 month old is waking every 45 minutes overnight and has been since 4 months and I'm nearly at breaking point.
He will only settle back down being fed, any amount of rocking / shushing just ends up in hysterics.
We co sleep and have done since a few weeks old as he's always been a bad sleeper, I think had a lot of reflux.
Is there any hope for us?

that's not true, it's literally impossible to do proper research that sleep training isn't harmful, as you can't do proper randomised control trials. Babies don't know the difference between left to cry for 5 mins or that they've been left forever. They don't learn to sleep, they simply give up asking for their parents.

How would it be any different from a baby in a car seat crying for 5 minutes because they don’t like the car? It’s not ideal, but nobody thinks it’s traumatising.

I don’t buy the “they give up on their parents” nonsense. That only happens in extreme cases of neglect.
I could hear both my DSs happily rolling around and cooing to themselves. And I could see on the baby monitor that within minutes he was asleep. And he was still very capable of crying to attract my attention at all other times!

Ferberising a baby is nonsense to some. We all back our own decisions, if one has sleep trained, particularly if it was rough, one would have to or it's one hell of a climb down.

And allowing your baby to never have a proper restful sleep because you haven’t helped them learn how (and being exhausted yourself) is nonsense to others.
My kids are 5 and 2.5 now and when I put them to bed and they go off to sleep happily by themselves I still feel thankful that I did it. Two evenings with a small amount of upset several years ago is still paying off.

Anyway, apologies OP for the derailing the thread with sleep training, I’m going to leave the thread now - but I would encourage anyone to read Dr Ferber’s book and then make a decision rather than dismiss it out of hand.

Have you started weaning? Is he getting enough food in the day so he’s not hungry at night?

Dr Ferber is widely discredited and outdated.

Hi OP, my eldest was like this (not as bad about every hour) at the same stage. I read somewhere that your breasts milk is at its fattiest in the morning, so I pumped first thing, kept it the fridge and then gave him that milk in a little bottle before bed plus a breast feed (if he doesn't take the bottle first, trying breast feeding first and them the bottle as it will taste the same and hopefully may not notice as much where it's coming from). He instantly (over night) went from waking 4-6 times a night to 1-2. I shared the same advise with a co-worker a few years later who was going through the same time thing, and it also worked. So only a sample size of two, but worth a go if you can try it!