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Not sure whether anyoneās in the same boat, but Iām on about week 5 of sleep regression! LO is 4.5 months, his daytime naps are mostly ok, heās sleeping from around 7:30/8pm until midnight/1am ish, then from 2ish heās up every hour? Not seeking feeds just cuddling and rocking back to sleep.
He woke up at 5am for an hour and a half this morning, then slept 6:30-7:30, now seems to want a nap again? I follow his cues and he sleeps/ naps on demand. We have a bedtime routine of bath, story and feed.
Heās exclusively breastfed and weāre co sleeping for now to get through this rough patch (he is completely rejecting his NTM crib).
I know that they struggle to tie their sleep cycles together esp early hours of the morning, so it makes sense as to why this is happening but I guess Iām just looking for some advice (I mention it to family but just get the typical ātry formula and putting him in his crib, try a higher tog sleeping bag he might be coldā. ) We have tried one bottle of formula before, it didnāt work and tbh I donāt want to give him formula yet!
Thankyou!!
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It sounds like a routine issue, heās struggling to sleep early hours because there is less sleep pressure then, waking at 5 for an hour and a half is called a split night caused by too much day sleep or bedtime being too early. Mine only does 2.5 hours day sleep and sleeps 9pm ish to 8am with a feed x
We are only just starting to get stretches of around 2 hours now after about 3/4 weeks of waking every 30/45 mins! And from 3:30am itās almost impossible to get her to sleep in her next to me but we are just surviving as Iām sure it will get better. We do use the Napper app to track her sleep which I have found has helped to stop her getting overtired through the day
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