My DS is 5 months old, and isn't great at sleeping. He catnaps in the day, wakes 3 times in the night for feeds, and this is the best it's been. I can kind of cope with that but in the evenings he is a nightmare and I would so love for that to improve but don't really know what to do!
He is exhausted early eve so has bath at 6ish, bottle and then bed. He usually settles between 7-7.30pm, usually needs feeding to sleep, then moved into cot, but goes down pretty easily at this point. He then usually wakes by 8pm, and either I just bring him downstairs till later and he is tired but awake, or I spend the evening trying to settle him several times, but it can be anything from 2-8 times during the evening.
Once we come to bed he often ends up co sleeping, but I do try and keep him in his cot when possible, just sometimes too tired and go with the easy option!
I am guessing he is too used to sleeping with us at night, on me in the day (only does short naps after feeds or in car/buggy), and so wakes up on his own, can't resettle as he's usually fed to sleep, and then cries... I have no idea what to do to improve this... But he I'd exhausted and I would dearly love my evening back a bit, even just to do housework!!
Any suggestions?!
For info his bottle before bed is his only bottle, he is bf on demand the rest of the time, and is on the 98th centile for weight.