5.5 month old sleep is AWFUL
Hello please help 😂 the torture is he is waking every three hours or so, we are so so tired all the time and it’s been like this for months, we’ve tried everything 😅 feeding more during the day / putting him in his own room / bath routine with low lighting / same bed time and plenty of naps / accepting it 😂 but he’s quite tired during the day and I’m constantly trying to get his four naps in so he can function without being too fussy 😫
Every three hours doesn’t sound too bad 😅 In the night, I keep my baby close to me so I can hear her squirm before she cries and nurse her back to sleep quickly. Usually this is a 5-10min feed and then she’s back to sleep. If you wait until your baby cries, then they really wake up and are harder to put back to sleep. However, all babies sleep differently. They tend to have short sleeping windows in the beginning of the night and longer ones towards the end of their sleep. The first year is particularly difficult with sleep as babies learn A LOT and this affects their sleep. If your baby is having an unusually difficult time sleeping, then they may be going through a growth spurt, teething or learning a new and significant skill. I cannot tell you how awful sleep was when my baby learned to crawl. 🥲