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[MoonLove]

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[Cangaroo]

Oh dear, that sounds exhausting! At that age, DD2 could be awake a maximum of 2 hours before being too go back to sleep. She'd sleep at night from 10pm to around 8am (co-sleeping and feeding in our sleep). Every time she seemed tired, I'd look at the clock and realise it had been two hours, so would put her in the sling or take her to bed with me for a sleep. She's only recently going longer than 2 hours on a regular basis. 5:30-11:30am seems an incredibly long time with no sleep- perhaps try getting him to sleep much sooner than you think?

 

[londonangel]

Mine doesn't sleep much in the day either - two hours max. She usually sleeps from 8.45pm to 6am or a bit earlier or bit later. I think this is just how some babies are. My first slept more in the day but didn't do an eight hour stretch at night until she was seven months old and even then she got up at 4am!

 

[MindUtopia]

At that age, my daughter was probably definitely feeding about that often. Well, 8 feeds a day, 2 of which would have been at night (11pm and maybe 3am), so in 12 hours she would have 6 feeds, which is I guess roughly every 2 hours. So that sounds normal. But is it possible he just needs to get to sleep earlier? And if you have to do the school run, can you drive around a bit extra to let him sleep in the car or get him to sleep in the car seat before and let him sleep after by gently carrying him in. At that age, my daughter was having maybe 3 naps a day of maybe about 45 minutes to sometimes an hour and a half. She never slept in a cot though, always on me, in the wrap, in the car, in the pushchair. We just weren't home that much, so she slept where she had to. It might just be a matter of doing what you can do to get more sleep during the day. If I had just laid her in the cot, she wouldn't have slept much. She liked to be moving or close to me, so that's what we did. I think it helped her nighttime sleep a lot to be well-rested from the day, so it was worth it. Otherwise, if it's not causing a problem, that might just be how he is. A 5:30am wake up can be normal and lots of babies do get up that early (and toddlers too, ugh!). So it might just be when he gets up.

 

[stephj25]

welcome to the 4 month sleep regression - also known as Wonder week 19 (Leap 4).

My son slept for 7 hours until this started a few weeks ago, he know wakes up every hour and is trying to learn new skills (rolling & grasping).

It's perfectly normal and keep telling yourself that it's just a phase. Apparently the average age it stops and goes back to normal is 19 weeks x