Nighttime sleep

My boy is 5 months old and has never slept through the night, but until recently he was waking up 2-3 times a night for a feed (he’s EBF) and would go back to sleep straight after. Lately he’s been waking up pretty much every hour, which is exhausting. We’re co-sleeping and I don’t know how we would manage if we weren’t, but am also wondering if he’d wake up less if he was in his own room.
His naps are fine, there are 3 a day and they last 40-90 minutes.
I’ve attached a screenshot of last night’s feeds which shows how bad it can get 😭

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Similar situation here! He wakes up a lot more and only settles on us / in bed cosleeping with me(!)

let’s hope this phase comes to an end soon!!

We’re exactly the same. Waking up all the time. Never going longer than 2 hours and only going 40 mins at staff if night

We’re the same so don’t worry it’s so normal! There’s so many times I put my little one down and she’s back awake in 30 minutes like you’ve shown there!
What I would say though is sometimes they’re fussing and crying but if they have a quiet moment straight after they’re usually trying to get back to sleep and you can leave them (but a lot of the time my little girl ends up waking herself up doing this, but she will go back to sleep on the odd occasion)
I would say if baby was in their own room it would be easier to see if they do go back to sleep on their own in their cot, whereas if they’re next to you they probably wake up more easily?

You can try for a few nights and then always have the option of going back to cosleeping if it’s too early for you both

This seems to be happening at the moment to lots of babies in the May 23 bump group including mine, I think they're all entering leap 5 😞 they will come through it and in the meantime thank god for bedsharing

On the one hand I’m sorry it’s happening to all of you as well but on the other hand I’m glad I’m not alone 😂 at least it’s not abnormal and we just have to remember that every phase will come to an end… Leap 4 was much worse (he wouldn’t nap during the day which was exhausting!) and that eventually came to an end!

Same here!!

Same same same!!

Have you tried expressing at all

Maybe they’re still half a sleep so not feeding enough so then Waking as a little Hungary ?

I’m not a professional so don’t know
Just a suggestion

Was thinking if you could get an amount in a bottle when Lo wakes up change bum so wakes up a bit mrle then feed ?

We’ve just come out the other side and suddenly none of his clothes fit so I think it was a regression/ growth spurt

Same here
My LG did this for 3 weeks roughly, just couple days ago, started sleeping through the night with just one feed again.
She was also super grumpy during the day, cried more.
I think it was the 5 months leap.

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