Tired mom sleep help

Mine too! He just turned 12 weeks, but he was sleeping through the night and within the last week he’s been waking up every 2-3 hours. It’s exhausting

So with my first son, he woke up every two hours for almost a year. My breast milk wasn’t very good quality, it was very watery (almost had a blue hue to it), and my son wasn’t gaining enough weight. (We tried formula but it’s super expensive so we only supplemented a couple bottles a day for him). He also would fall asleep while nursing though. So I’m sure he wasn’t getting enough milk on top of my milk not being high in fat. Have you checked your milk? Is it more watery than fat? I also ended up bed sharing because I would be so exhausted from waking up so frequently that I just started sleeping with him in our bed, so I could nurse him laying down. My son now, wakes a couple times at night, but usually around 4-5am, I’ll bring him into the bed and nurse him and we both go back to sleep until my toddler wakes up. I know the experts say bed sharing isn’t safe for babies, but it works for us.

I’m reading a book it’s about feeding and sleeping it’s very helpful. 12 hours sleep by 12 weeks old

in many other cultures bedsharing is the norm and babies thrive in those environments!

I have read that babies are at a lower risk of SIDS if you bedshare but also, sometimes there’s accidents. I personally am a light sleeper, and wake up frequently if baby moves or makes any kind of sound lol so it works for me.

I recommend Moms on call! Which consists of definitely feeding at 7am and 4pm and 7pm. And then you can feed throughout the day as you like but try for 10am, 1pm. Don’t feed between 4pm feeding and 7pm feeding (soothe, give a pacifier, rock them) we give a bath at 6:30p to distract him. Hope that helps!

I give mine extra calories during the day so he goes down at 9:30 and gets up at 4/5 for a feed and then is on his normal feed schedule