Multiple wake ups 😭

Came out of our 4 month regression not slepeing through a sleep cycle. We have improved but still waking up every 2 to 3 hours 🙋🏼‍♀️ hungry bubba over here.. had to change to safetly co sleep for the 2nd half of night.

One minor detail I helped first time round is, when everyone seems to have a sleeps through the night baby, some people classify "sleeps through" differently. One view is if they wake to feed then go back to sleep its still sleeping through. This helped me alot.

It gets better.. it really does.

Try and increase the amount the baby is eating during the day (either solids or milk). If you’re breastfeeding, try giving a bottle of formula at night time instead or as a top up.

That helped us. My baby was hungry and I wasn’t producing the right amount of milk and it was very watery so not the fatty good stuff. Once we switched to formula at night, she slept a solid 6 hours straight!

What's babys day sleep looking like? My LO was waking every 2-4 hours during the night, sometimes for two hours at a time 😴 We found out he was overtired when we corrected his day naps, now he sleeps 12 hours through the night (sometimes I need to get up once or twice just to pop his dummy back in, but then straight back to sleep)

she’s having 2 hour wake windows but only sleeping for around 45minutes at a time during the day! Unless it’s a contact nap but I’m trying to not contact nap

Hey Emma, you are definitely not the only one. I can totally empathise with you, it is SO exhausting having the multiple wake ups and it feels like you will never sleep again. It's so tough looking around seeing other babies of a similar age sleeping through. I don't have any actual sleep advice, sorry, I wish I did, but my 18 month old still hasn't ever slept through the night. He is now starting to have longer stretches without me changing anything. We have been to sleep school, had a private sleep consultant and 2 X different online sleep programs in the past to try and help him to sleep more. So feel free to DM me and I can tell you more about all of those options. None of the options were the right fit for our family unfortunately, but am happy to share our experience of what it was like.

is she on 3 naps?

depends on the day, sometimes it’s 3 naps sometimes 4

at 5MO the maximum wake time for a day is 9/9.25 hours, so if you did 5 2hr wake windows on 4 naps, your LO could be overtired. I was stuck in the same boat of perpetual overtiredness and MOTN wakes for ages, until I realised my LO was just so overtired (and spent hours reading 😂) now he does his three solid naps and sleeps, finally.

everytime I put her down she seems to just wake after 30 minutes or so unless I contact nap! I don’t know how to get her to sleep longer in her bed during the day it’s so stressful 🤦🏼‍♀️😭