My baby is a rubbish sleeper

[Betney]

As the title says, my baby is rubbish ay sleeping. He's EBF and about to turn 4 months old and wakes every hour at the minute and wont go back to sleep unless i feed him. I cant even blame a sleep regression because he's woke every 2 hours from 8 weeks old. His first stretch when he goes to bed can be anywhere between 2/3 hours but after that theres not a chance i get that long. I'm pretty sure at this point it's probably habit but i dont know how to break it because he refuses to settle unless he's fed again. I tried rocking him last night when he woke up at half 3 but because he wouldn't go back to sleep he ended up just staying awake until 5am where he finally fell back to sleep by himself. He did 4 and a half hours one night and then 5 and a half hours the next 2 weeks ago when i was ill and quickly reverted back to every hour when i felt better again. At what point is he finally going to decide to sleep for a decent amount of time so i can actually sleep? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Please dont comment just to tell me your 6 week old sleeps through. Great for you but i need stories from the other rubbish sleepers that there is light at the end of the tunnel 😅

My son was the same and he was only bf he has never slept through he is now almost two and still wakes up every couple of hours . He stopped bf 5 months ago and is now having cows milk for bed time and still wakes up loads in the night

Wtf 😂 I've got a 9 month old who eats loads of food, drinks formula and breastfeeds, and still wants to be attached to me all night. What a hideous thing to say to a new mum.

Combi feeding try a bottle of formula at bedtime my DGS was terrible and DD says she wishes this was done earlier she also sleep trained him….

My eldest was an absolutely horrendous sleeper for the first 18 months or so, and then every time a new tooth came through was again feeding all the time. He's been a solidly good sleeper since about age 3 and very rarely stirs in the night.
My youngest slept so much better for the first year or so then it all went downhill, she still regularly wakes me in the night and she's 7!
It's really, really hard, but what's happening now is no indicator of how they'll sleep long term. 4 months is probably the hardest baby stage I would say so just try and find a way through it. Nap when they nap if you can, see if you can snooze while they feed lying down, take it easy on yourself.
Oh, and ignore all the nonsense about formula, it's absolutely no guarantee of sleep! Your baby's clearly thriving and breastfeeding just gets so much easier around this age.