Desperate need of sleeping advice!

[Emjbry]

Hi all.

We have a 5 month old, exclusively breastfed baby who now HATES sleep.

She was a dream before her 16 week jabs (I don't think it's linked, just an event that I can pinpoint around then it changed) she's always been EBF and used to be able to go 8-10 hours overnight but not anymore!

The last week we've reached breaking point. I can't get her down before 21.30, I BF her to sleep, it's the only way I've been able to get her to sleep but she's been waking every 45 minutes - 90 minutes and I'm absolutely at breaking point 😔

Napping is absolutely non-existent unless I have the time to sit with her on me, which with a 4 year old in tow is rare! Even if she falls asleep on me and I transfer her to her cot NOPE she's awake again!

What I've tried:
-sleeping bags (she seems to like)
-next to me crib (worked for about 3 days)
-giving her baby rice (seems to make no difference, not keen on weaning before 6m)
-giving her a bottle of pumped milk before bed (she refuses it)
-giving her a dummy (she refuses it)
-Co-sleeping (no one sleeps)
-changing the temperature in the room (no difference)
-crying it out (45 minutes and she's still screaming!)

Our first born was bottle fed and as much as I love BF g*d am I missing the routine of bottle feeding!

Any, any advice would be greatly appreciated, tears are flowing from everyone and I have no idea how to make this situation better!

It sounds like you're in the dreaded 4 month sleep regression, OP. It's tough if they were sleeping well before...but think it's just one of those things babies go through unfortunately. I continued BF to sleep as needed to get through it...but did mean I was up every 45min-2hrs for a while

Sorry not very helpful, I know! I finally gave into CC after 11months of terrible sleep.

I would recommend speaking to millpond sleep consultants, one of the other posters on here was feeding to sleep, millpond helped fix that and her baby started sleeping from 7-7. I am currently using them, they ask what your approach as parents is so if you want a no crying method then it will be very gentle training. You can call them for a 10 minute chat free. When it’s the four month sleep regression they need to be put back to sleep however they got the in the first place, yours is breast feeding, a sleep cycle is every 45 mins so your baby needs to be taught to link them together.