Sleep (help!)

So - we haven’t been getting very much sleep. My baby who is 5 months today always slept really well, but recently it’s not been great. The longest stretch he will do is about three hours - otherwise he instantly wakes up as soon as we put him down in his crib. Last night we were up until about 3 am trying to get him down. I honestly don’t know what to do other than co sleep which isn’t my preferred option because I don’t sleep very well next to baby! Anyone else experienced this?

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My husband and I do shifts for now, because I got to breaking point by myself. One of us sleeps in the spare room from 9-1, the other sleeps in the bedroom with baby and then swap for 1-6. The second part of the night is hardest so we alternate. I have a next to me cot. Can you do shifts?

Our daughter (also 5 months today) has never slept well, so I think the three hour stretches feel like a blessing for us 🤣 but I can imagine its a nightmare when previously the sleep has been much better. We've been doing the pick up put down to get her sleeping in her cot as we've been co sleeping majority of the time, and she started refusing to settle for her daddy a few weeks ago...would you be up for trying something like that? The results are meant to be quite quick (we're on day 4 and its definitely improving), and its not as harsh as the cry it out, though it does require a lot of patience!

Yeah, annoyingly this is super normal at this age as they learn. When I do sleep next to the baby I tend to wear ear plugs to damper some of the active sleep noise as well as a noise machine. But my an my partner try to weather it together, we tried to spilt it with my first and it just built up resentment between the two of us.

We're currently struggling with her sleep association with a dummy. So she falls to sleep with one and then wakes up when she doesn't have it. We're currently guiding her to have it without and she goes longer on those night, like 4 or 5 hours. With this we've been able to keep her in the next to me. When she gets too angry I just place a hand on her and go back sleep and that helps.

It's a super hard time for sleep then at these ages! Is he rolling or learning any new skills??

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