5 months old addicted to night feeds

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I’m so sleep deprived

For the past month, baby has been waking up every half an hour from 3 am onwards. I resorted to putting him right next to me as I just keep my breast out and he sucks while I sleep.

He is teething. So might be why.

But I don’t know what to do anymore .. wish I can get better sleep

Sorry, rambling on here, but I think this can sometimes be worse with winter born babies. When they're born it's dark most of the time. Once they get to summer, it fucks up their rhythms and when 6am used to be their start time it moves to 3:30 or 4am.

Foil on the windows works better than any black out blind. You wipe the glass with a wet cloth and press the foil onto it. Totally blacks out any light,it's wonderful

My DS did this for 11 week's and would only nap on me. At 6 months he just changed, refusing to nap on me and refusing to feed to sleep and we put him im his own room. After some very gentle gradual retreat (no crying just frustrated arm waving) he cracked self settling. Hes been fine with 2 wake ups (with the exception of teething/illness) until now - the 8 month regression I believe! It will pass and you will survive it. Just grab what you can when you can. I Also found getting out the house once a day atleast even for a walk around the blocl helped. Even though I was exhausted it felt like I had achieved something and stopped me dwelling on it for for abit.

my eldest son is now 23. When he was 8 months I was so tired from him being up all night I switched rooms. I pushed the cot into the front bedroom and put him to bed at 8pm. I said to myself 'I'm getting at least 5 hours before I go back in there'. He slept all night til 7 next morning, maybe we'd been disturbing each other? From that night, new routine and some much needed sleep!

For those of you who never used a dummy and were exclusively breastfeeding and never did sleep training , when did the regression fix ?

This is me! No dummies, no sleep training, all exclusively breastfed until they were about 2 (my youngest is 17 months old and still BF).

The oldest was the world’s worst sleeper. The sleep regression for him stopped about 2. It was very very tough!

The middle one was much better and he slept through from about 10 months old.

The 17 month old is currently waking up 1-2 times a night but I can see that the end is in sight, because he’s going longer and longer and waking up for less time.

Wish I had some proper advice, really just offering a handhold as I'm in the same position. Baby was waking every 45 mins all night from 16 weeks and became every 1.5- 2hours from about 20 weeks. I'm afraid this has continued and baby is now 7 months. Sheer and complete hell. Co-sleeping is the only way I'm getting through this. I don't think this is a regression anymore but rather 'him' and am considering some sort of gentle sleep training before I go back to work. Thinking of you , it will get better I'm sure (!!)

Exactly the same here... but starting 11pm. Am so tired. Co sleeping not option as my 6yo dd sometimes comes for cuddles in small hours and id be too worried about safety. I am soooo tired as is dh. She slept through till 4m but now its terrible