5 month old sleep...

[TootsieBootsie]

My LO is 5 months and I need help with sleep!
Goes down at 7 with 7oz. Wakes at 11/midnight usually has another bottle, then again at 3/4am for another feed. She is often awake having a chat to herself at this point and nods off only until 6am.

So, is this normal? Or can I change it?? I was so lucky with other DD as she slept through from early days.
I can't leave her cry as it wakes up the house

Posted too soon!
And I could cope if it wasn't an early awake in the morning. I say 6 but she's often faffing around in her cot before that!

Can't get her to take a dummy and I just want may be a few hours uninterrupted sleep??

That sounds similar to mine at 5 months.
Bedtime feed at 7pm, we would get them up for a feed at 10.30pm, and they would wake at 3am for another feed. But they would go back down until about 6.30/7am ish.
About a month later they stopped waking up for 3am feed (they still wake up sometimes for a fuss - but don't need feeding).
It's exhausting yes, but what you describe sounds normal to me

I'm there with you. Can't remember when my others slept through. I'm tired!!!

Do you have a method to get baby to slerp that isn't feeding?

I would make daytime feeds closer together so that you add in an extra one or two bottles in the daytime (say, feed every 2 hours). Then at that 3/4am wake try to shush or dummy suck back to sleep without feeding.

She's can be calmed with a rock or bounce around if I catch her before she's fussed herself awake and got herself into a state....but problem is that I sometimes don't hear the fussing as I'm asleep and it's too late! Then I just want her as quiet asap as to not wake up big sis...shes a very loud baby!!
I'll try the adding feeds in the daytime and see if that helps, thanks for the advice. I know I've just been spoilt with big sis who slept through very early on and has been a dream since!