How can I reduce nighttime snacking of coslept 5mo?

[MamaChris]

I've posted here before about my frequent waking 5mo ds. I thought he woke about every 1-2 hours. But dp stayed up late last night with the baby monitor on and said it was every 20 mins This is just too too much. Am exhausted, and SPD means sleeping on my side to be accessible to him is painful.

He'll sleep 1-2 hours at a time before I go to bed, and will go up to 4 hours during the day between feeds (though more often 2-3 hours), so I know it's not through hunger. Sometimes he'll just latch on and go right back to sleep, but scream if I try and delatch him What can I do? Have tried dummies repeatedly, but he spits them out and if I try it when he's already sleepy, it actually wakes him up He only stays asleep with a nipple in his mouth or in a buggy.

Any advice useful, but I still don't want to leave him to cry it out (although dp is getting close to that through lack of sleep).

my 17 month old does the same

hugs for you

OMG - you've been doing this for 17 months?!? You must be exhausted! Hugs too. But scared now - really hoping we can change this before then...

Can you rock him back to sleep, instead? I would swaddle first then rock.

My baby is almost 5 months old & is waking every 2 hours most nights, I thought that was pretty bad.

Have you read the No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley? It has a thing in it called the gentle Pantley removal method, whereby when your baby is almost asleep you detach them with your little finger and then gently hold their chin with your finger to hold their mouth shut. I've used this and sometimes it takes a few times but eventually DD will fall asleep. This may be quite random, but I have been co-sleeping with DD, who is 4 months old, since she was 2 weeks and have recently started to get her to sleep in the cot for a variety of reasons including waking up all the time to feed. Anyway on most nights she has ended up in our bed at some point, but she has woken to feed a lot less, going from every hour or so, to only about twice a night. Good luck!