5 month old
I need some help! I’m not sure if I need help of a sleep consultant or if I should wait it out. My baby just turned 5 months old. So my baby is waking 2 times at night for feeding. After the first feed he is able to fall back asleep but will wake up either an hour later or 30-45 minutes later. I give him the pacifier sometimes he falls back asleep sometimes he will keep moving his head around and slamming his legs. Then I have to pick him up and rock him. He’s getting so heavy and it’s so hard to rock him all the time. Even for naps he always wants to be rocked again and again and honestly my hands and back are giving up on me. He isn’t sleeping through the night at all. He will wake up and expect me to rock him back to sleep and he’s still not dropping his night feeds. Is anyone else going through this. I don’t know if I need to bring in a sleep consultant as he’s 5 months now or if I should wait a little bit longer. I’m just so sleep deprived and desperate :( if anyone has any tips that would be super helpful!
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Hang in there. It will get better.
Depending on what time my 5 month old sleeps, she either wakes up twice or once in the night. I feed her and she goes back to sleep for good 3-4 hrs. So if she sleeps at 9 pm (and yes that’s the earliest she goes down for the night lol) then up around midnight and off to sleep till 4:06 am. Again a feed and goes to sleep until 8-9 am.
If she sleeps at 11-11:30 (embarrassed but yes that’s her routine time 😔) then up around 3:00 am and goes back to sleep until 7-7:30 am.
Good part is that I don’t have to rock her to sleep in the night. She goes back to sleep while feeding.
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