My son turned 5 months yesterday and we have had the 4th night of waking every hour. (Bed 8:30, awake for the day 6:45am) Prior to that he woke every two hours, which has been going on since he was 3.5 months old, and me thinking he’d grow out of it, just ride it out - only it got worse, now I look back and think two hourly sleep would be bliss 😂
He is EBF. I feed every time he’s awake except maybe one time if I can get him to sleep again easily. I feed because it’s the quickest way to settle him and I’m of course desperate to get back to sleep myself. The longer I leave him the more he wakes up, and then once fully awake he’ll be awake for an hour or two before he will sleep again.
His daytime naps aren’t great and vary, usually 3 naps a day which last between 20-45mins with an occasional big 1-2 hour nap which might occur about once a week.
He has always rejected a dummy
I’ve tried adding an extra layer of clothing as it might have been due to cold - made no difference
He has slept better in the past but I can count the times he’s slept as long as 5 hours on one hand and when I say better I mean he would only be up 4 times a night 😂 we have had two nights where he was up once and that was the two days after his 12 week injections!
Has anyone else experienced this? How long until things got better? Did it get worse? (If it does tell me I need to mentally prepare myself!)
People keep saying he might keep waking as he’s a big baby with a strong appetite (born at 25th weight percentile, followed 92nd percentile since 4 weeks old), but is there any truth in that this would affect sleep?
I have no idea what to do I’m just riding it out. No idea how I’m still managing to function tbh.