5 month sleep problems

[Holiday16]

Hi, my little boy is 5 months old. He used to sleep 6 hours straight and then wake up every two hours. For the past month or so he has been waking between 1 and 2 hours every night. I am exhausted. Any tips or advice? If it's completely normal at this stage then that's fine but I feel like I'm doing something wrong or missing a trick here. I am a ftm so I'm unsure if this is normal. All my friends say he should be sleeping through the night by now but I just don't know what else I can try. I ebf and I've recently introduced a bedtime dummy but it hasn't helped much. Thankyou x

Do you feed her to sleep? It sounds like there is some sort of sleep association that she has developed so that when she wakes from each cycle, she wakes fully as whatever was there when she went to sleep isn't there anymore. Does that make sense?

Does make sense 100%. I breastfeed him to sleep usually yes but I've just started giving a dummy after the feed (is he's still awake) or I give the dummy once he wakes up. Atm though he only feeds when he's tired. I also offer boob pretty much at every wake up as I'm worried he's hungry. That's the only issue with breastfeeding- I never know if he's full or not x

I'm not an expert but we had major problems at 4 months because I was feeding my baby to sleep. So when she woke up, she cried for boob and couldn't settle herself.

I read a really good book (can't remember what it's called but by someone called Stephanie Modell) and basically the golden rule is do not feed your baby to sleep because then they'll need it every time. Easier said than done and it takes a bit of crying and comforting but I was where you are about 4 weeks ago and now my baby sleeps 7-7 with a dreamfeed and a 5am feed. It is DREAMY.

Let me know if you have any more questions, I'm more than happy to.help x

Hi, I can recommend an amazing sleep coach Daria! I used her with both of my children she saved my life! I know that they are doing free email consultation because of the current situation with the corona virus, which sounds great!

Her email address: [email protected]
I know that they have the website but it looks like they are doing a makeover or something. Good luck!