Hi Mamas
I’m no stranger to rubbish/normal baby sleep. My eldest didn’t sleep through until 4.
However my 5 month old has been waking hourly for weeks…it seems excessive! It’s the same whether Dad puts her down or resettles, I feed her to sleep (this is def her preference), I resettle without a feed, in her cot, in bed with me…always an hour!
we have tried extending wake windows, she has usually 5 x 30-40min naps a day. I always hold her for at least 1 so there is the opp to extend, most are in the car or pram. Occasionally she will do a little longer on one so might have 4 naps.
tried later bedtime, earlier bedtime.
I’d love to even get to 2-3 hours.
I know many will say she needs to self settle. When my husband puts her down he only does soft shushing. Maybe a hand to her chest. This is the most she can do for now and I don’t want to use any of the methods that leave her. My daughter also always fed to sleep and we still got longer than 1 hour!
I want to support her and she is only a baby but surely we can do better than hourly!
she did longer stretches til 3 months, then I thought we’d got over the regression as we started getting slightly longer first stretches again, but now here we are. She does not seem to be uncomfortable day or night, generally very happy and chilled out.
Any ideas…or anyone where it’s just got better? I need some hope alongside my coffee!