5 month old- sleeper to non-sleeper

[Thismummyruns]

This is a tough one for me. My 1st born was never a fantastic sleeper so when my 2nd was sleeping through the night at 7 weeks old I literally thought she was sent from an angel.

Fast forward a few months, we caved into giving her a dummy, she wakes constantly throughout the night for said dummy and only has daytime naps for a maximum of 30 minutes at a time.
I can literally time her to the second, 30 bloody minutes.

What the hell are we (me!) doing wrong!
I'm a born-again zombie

How long has it been happening for? Sounds like the 4 month sleep regression.

@Thismummyruns I feel your pain. My 6 month old wakes every 2 hours in the night for the bloody boob. I'm so tired.

In the opposite position, my 5 year old slept through from 17 weeks so I was expecting the same 😱

He's a fab napper though, 40 min, 2 hours at lunch then 30 mins. If I cut the naps down then my night is even worse!

Am hoping with the weaning he'll grow out of it. I'm on my knees with tiredness!!

@MySonIsAlsoNamedBort Around 3/4 weeks ago so does tie in but hasn't changed since.
Last night was torturous 

@moleeye Oh I feel your pain more then! I'm bottlefeeding so couldn't imagine that. The thing is she's not even feeding. She has a bottle at 10pm & then morning bottle at 6.30am. She's just waking for no apparent reason.

I could cope if she slept in the day

@Thismummyruns lasts over an extended period, sort of around 6ish weeks generally, so hopefully it's that and it'll settle down in a couple more weeks for you.