Baby sleeps, I don't. Any tips?

[DoubleCarrick]

DS is at the moment a pretty good sleeper. He has his phases but on the whole they only last a couple of weeks and he's alternating between one feed and no feeds per night.

Last night, he slept from about 8pm until 6am. I went to sleep at about 9.30pm and always sleep really well for the first part of the night. He woke me at 3am this morning blowing raspberries and moving around. I ended up making a bottle which he didn't want as he was asleep by the time I got back upstairs and he slept soundly until 6am. However I haven't slept since 3am as that's it, I was awake.

There's no point me asking dh to take a shift (he currently sleeps on the sofa) as it'll get to about 2am and I'm awake listening to see of ds wants a feed and end up lying there waiting for dh to get up to make a bottle. Again, ear plugs don't help because I still wake up to wait for ds.

At the moment he sleeps through more often than not which is awesome. However I'm so so tired and sleep deprived and don't know what to do

How old is the baby now?

I've just searched your username to see if I could tell how old your baby was. I see you have had some very exciting BFP news recently! Congratulations! Similar age gap to my eldest two children.

So you have a 5 month old and are newly pregnant. I suspect the sleep issues are more to do with being pregnant than your baby.

No reason not to night wean your DS. If he has other ways to settle to sleep, then just shush and dummy through any wake ups.

Also worth bearing in mind that you can stop sterilizing from 6 months old. Or at least be less stringent about it. So if you can't or don't want to night wean, you could keep a previously sterilized bottles in your bedroom over night, and an individual carton of ready made milk. If there is a wake up, just open the carton straight into bottle and give, without needing to get up.

Depending on finances and urgency, when I was formula feeding DC3 (all my others were breastfed through most night feeds) I was given one of those desk-top refrigerators (used for beer bottles). Then I bought a cheap microwave from a Facebook selling group for £10.

So I had a fridge and microwave in my bedroom. I could get a prepared bottle and warm it within 1 minute, without getting out of bed! #lazymumhacks

Yes, he's nearly 5 months.

Awesome idea about the ready milk but unfortunately ds is on a dairy free powdered milk so no ability to have ready milk.

Night weaning would be good but the night before last he had about 8oz overnight so still has the random hungry night. I'm really hoping to breastfeed the next!

I've struggled with sleep for as long as I've had him despite the fact that we've been blessed with an overall good sleeper we'll ignore the screaming till 2am colic!!

I'm just getting really frustrated. I could almost handle being up from 1am onwards when I knew I'd have feeds every couple of hours (and I had to hold him a lot overnight due to reflux). But now he's sleeping better I'm not really handling the sleep deprivation.

@FATEdestiny thankyou for your congratulations, we're very excited!

I'm also beginning to train him into sleeping in his cot for naps. Currently sat on his bedroom floor as dh and I have agreed no alone naps/sleeps until he's six months. Just over a month to go I'm counting it down