What’s your 5 months old sleep like during the night?

My baby goes down around 7pm but seems to stir around 10pm and always wakes around 11.30/12 for a feed and then again around 3/4..

Not sure if she’s even hungry but not sure how to stop the night feeds 😩

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Same! This is only recently because she was sleeping through the night since about 6 weeks. I’m hoping it’s just a sleep regression but I tend to give her milk and she settles again quite quickly. Some nights we still go through but others we don’t, I’m trying to work out when’s the best time for her to nap / feed etc because I tend to just let her when she needs it but I should probably not let her nap near her bedtime either! It can be hard though.

My little one goes down at 9 and then wakes at 12 and 3 for a feed and usually wakes between 5 and 6 in the morning.
I’ve been doing some research and what I’m just starting to do is reduce the oz in the bottle by 1 oz per week until the bottle doesn’t exist anymore. I’ve started with the 12 bottle and am just doing 5 oz atm and will continue to reduce.

Yeah I’ve gone down to 3 naps now but her naps are terrible too :( she does a random one night of 8 hours that’s about it. Just don’t know what’s normal!

yeah hard for me as i Brest feed. I’m starting to introduce formula so maybe that will help x

ahhh sorry not much help then 😩x

If it’s sleep regression she may not be hungry just needing some time/help to get back to sleep. You could try rocking her or patting her tummy etc to help her resettle. Obviously if you know her hunger cry and she’s doing that she needs to be fed but otherwise could just be needing to resettle.

I could have written this myself, my LO is exactly the same and I mean even the same timings!
I don't feed at the 10pm wake up but feed on the 11:30-12 and 3/4 wakeups I was planning on pushing the 12 feed back and then hopefully he wouldn't wake until later for the next feed but tbh his sleep is so bad at times I see this as a good night now 😂

maybe it’s their age?! Who knows I’m trying to long out the first feed but she gets so distressed and screams at me or will just whinge for an hour!
Are you bottle or breastfeeding?
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yeah it must be! When was your LO born? Mine was 2nd July. I'm breastfeeding, I've tried to push it back before but I end up being awake for so much longer with zero gain really, a couple of times he has woken a little later so say 1am ish and then his next feed has also pushed back but it's not that often. Sometimes after the 3/4am feed he's up almost every hour 🤦🏼‍♀️

she was born on 5th July so they are very close! Yea I’m BF too but introducing some bottles as well so it’s not all on me!
Yeha the 3/4 feed she take forever to go back to sleep or she wakes super early!

Just wanna get a longer stench of sleep! Feel very sleep deprived 😩

My little one will be 5mo next week and we still have at least one, usually two feeds during the night. I've been told that breastmilk doesn't fill them up as much as formula does which would explain it xx

We have 3 feedings. EBF baby and roughly every 3 hours

We are the same. It’s normal for a baby to wake during the night in the first year of life. It might be for a cuddle or feed. I think it’s very normal, your baby will stop the feed when they’re ready! I’m not worried, try not to compare xx

yeah I'd also love a longer stretch 😭😭

My LG will be 5 month this week and for the past week or so when we put her down in her crib at around 8pm she is so unsettled and will not sleep which is a new thing as she would normally just fall straight to sleep but nope we have to play her music to help get her to sleep.

Then she normally sleeps through the night but will now wake up around 9:30/10pm full blown crying so all i do is place my hand on her tummy and she will go back to sleep and she will sleep through untill about 5am for a nappy change with a few slight stirs during the night but Ollie the owl comes on when she stirs which then settles her straight away x

My LG has always been a bad sleeper she's never done through the night and I'm lucky if I ever get 3 hours in a row.

Currently she goes to bed about 7, wakes up every half hour until about 10pm then will wake every 2 hours until 7am when she's up for the day.. she will feed once or twice in the night and the rest of the time she just wants her dummy and for me to hold her hand..

a few weeks ago he would sleep from 8:30-6:30 without waking for a feed or nappy change, and recently he’s been getting his first teeth so he’s been waking so often, just when i think he’s mastered all night sleeping

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Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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