Just stopped sleeping through

[susj]

My son is nearly 5 months and at about 4months he gave up sleeping through the night. I know i should just be grateful that he had a period of sleeping through (from about 2.5months - 4months) but before he started to sleep through it felt like we were progressing towards something and now we have gone back to 2 - 3 night feeds it just feels like there is to be no end to it. Has this happened to anyone else? Any strategies for dealing with it.

PLease don't get all agro with me for having had an easy time of it so far!

When i have had night waking i try and squeeze more feeds in during the day to up my milk supply (I b/f). If he is bottle fed increase his volume of milk either an extra bottle or increase the amount in the bottles he has.

Had almost exactly the same, except it started to go wrong around 3/3.5 months.

He is just getting back to normal now (25 weeks) - dreamfeed + one night feed.

I think it is really, really common.

our ds slept for the first 4 months then started waking up all the time. put it down to hunger so got into a 5amish feed routine. About a month ago we introduced dreamfeed at 10pm and now sleeps through. teething at mo though so all gone to pot again! Hoping its just a temp blip!

Hi Susj

DD was 5 mths a the weekend and is doing something similar now. We're very very loosely doing the contented baby book with a lot of tweaking. Dd slept through at 8 weeks. She's fully breast fed.

Dd was sleeping too much during the day so wasn't that bothered about a great sleep at night. So she now gets no more than 3 hours sleep between 7am and 7pm - it doesn' seem to matter when she sleeps as long as it's not after 5pm.

She now often wants an extra feed at 4pm ish. As Gina Ford doesn't allow for you choosing to wean after 4 mths, we're kind of in no mans land atm so dd's routine is now a bit of an invention!

I also wake her at 10:30pm for a quick top up feed and a nappy change. If she's fed well and slept ok during the day then she'll make it to 7am, but I'm aware she's getting hungrier the closer she gets to 6 months. So I'm expecting there might be a few more hungry nights over the next 3/4 weeks til she starts solids.

She's also showing teeting signs so if she's just grumbling rather than full blown screaming I'll rub a bit of gel on her gums, which often settles her back to sleep for another hour or so.

Gosh this has taken a while! um.. feed more and watch out for too much (and too little!) sleep during the day. Good luck!

Snap! Slept through from 11 weeks until about 20 ish. Is 6 months this weekend so starting solids. Fully breastfed. The night-time waking is a horrible shock when you've become complacent. Have a feeling the starting of solids won't magically change everything though.