My 5 month old sleeping

[Shauna044]

My 5 month old daughter used to sleep really well until her needles. She goes to bed at 7pm every night without problem. She loves going to bed. Then from 11.30pm she wakes has about 2 oz only. Then from then onwards it completely changes. Last night it was then 2.30am then 4am- 5am shes noisy almost through out. then finally woke at 6am. At 2.30 I tried her with more bottle she didnt seem interested. I've tried just giving the dummy and she spits it straight out. I don't even think she knows what she wants! Any suggestions? Thanks

Could be a sleep regression. My DD has just gone through this. Went from waking once to waking every couple of hours. Most of the time there wasn’t anything she need and she just fussed for an hour or so. Thankfully going back to normal now!

Forgot to say, it’s the change in sleep from baby sleep patterns to more mature sleep patterns and they struggle to get off to sleep and stay asleep. Feeding to sleep doesn’t work anymore.

I have read about the sleep regression. Because this feels it's been going on for a while now. Even in the day time shes fighting naps which she never used it. How long did your DD take to settle down? Was there anything that you did to help it along? I feel I'm not doing good by keep trying to feed her. I'm not sure whether to get her out of her crib and just settle with dummy or will she get used to that? it's so hard to know which route to take

My DD is rubbish at napping in the day unless she falls asleep whilst I’m driving/walking or sleeps on me. I’ve given in and let her have her two naps on me as I think this is helping at night. I also decided that once I’d established she wasn’t wet or hungry in the night I’d leave her to self settle. It’s a bit like us struggling to get back to sleep but they just make a lot more noise about it. The first night it took 2.5 hrs, second it took 30mins. She is very vocal throughout I will point out that at no point is she crying. I had decided if she cried I’d pick her up for a little cuddle then put her back down and just keep doing that until she fell asleep. Not ideal but would hopefully help soothe. It’s taken about 2 weeks for her to start sleeping better but is still not what it was. I think this is the new routine but it’s liveable (waking 9pm, 11pm and 4am) and I’m ok with it.

Wow, your DD is so similar to mine. I'm so glad it's not just me!! I have two friends with babies similar ages and they are sleeping through the night and it makes me feel I'm doing something wrong. My DD is very vocal and the same not really crying. Since my little one was born she has ten minute naps In the day then shes done. Longer again if I'm holder her. Which I do because we all need half a hour rest lol. Yeah your routine sounds good. I'm going to give it a go tonight. Feed her at her 11.30pm wake up then when she wakes il every hour and half I'll try and let her self soothe. Thanks for the advise

They are funny buggers are babies! Good luck! Hope you get some rest.