No Sleep

[Jess8808]

My son is nearly 5 months old and is waking constantly throu the nite. The most he sleeps in one go is 3hrs. We have tried solids and waking him if he falls asleep in the bottle. Does anyone have any thoughts?

[tiredbuthappy]

what does he do when he wakes? is he waking to eat or just because he is fussy? has he been doing this all along or is it recent? is he nursed or on formula?

[Jess8808]

he wakes to eat he is on formula but when he wakes he only has 30ml or so. He has been doing this for bout a month

[kjbutcher]

talk to your doctor about this at his 6 month check up.  They usually have good ideas on how to get them to sleep through the night.  My doc has given me several ideas at each age range to help me out.  They have been correct each time.  In the mean time you could try elevating him when he falls asleep.  It may be a bit of reflux and when he eats it helps it out.  Do you put rice in the formula at night?  It wont help in just getting him to sleep longer but if he does have reflux it can keep the reflux from happening and he will sleep longer just from feeling better.  
You may want to read a sleeping book and try to find something suitable for you because once he is able to stand up in his crib you will have a second fight on your hands.  That was really the toughest stage for me and my son and I am really glad I had a good sleep strategy before it happened to help calm the situation.  (Just before it happened so I was lucky I found it when I did)

[jess200819]

My son is getting ready to turn one next week and still does not sleep through the night.  We have tried everything the doctor suggests.  We use to feed him when he wakes in the night but now we realize that we can just go in there and pat him on the butt for a little bit and he falls back to sleep.  I am so jealous of the people that say their 3 month old is sleeping through the night! I think it is mainly me and my husbands fault though because we always rocked him to sleep and now we still cannot just lay him down without going through at least 15 min of screaming.  

[bjbbeauchamp]

i am one of the fortunate ones. both my dd's were sleeping through the night by two months old. i don't know what it was. but here are a few thoughts. my ped always said that if they cry, wait a few minutes to see if they will go back to sleep on there own. if they cry longer than 15 minutes then tend to them. the first night might be more like 20-30 minutes, but then the second night will be shorter and then so on. he said that if they wake in the middle of the night try that first b/c they most likely aren't hungry and will fall back asleep, b/c think about it. if we were to feed them everytime they cried then they would just get used to feeding at that hour and it would continue on forever. he explained it like this....if i were to wake at 2am and eat a pizza for a couple of days then from there on out my body would wake me at the same time every single day to eat at that hour...makes sense. so i would just let them cry and eventually (doing this for about three nights) they would be sleeping past those hours. right now my dd is 4 months old and she feeds at 10:30 for her last feeding. she eats more at this feeding than her other ones and I have to add some rice cereal due to her reflux, but she will sleep until 7:30-8:30 in the morning. it wasn't easy, but i just did what i mentioned above and within a week she was sleeping through the night. i still tend to rock her asleep, but try not to after her last feeding. i want her to be able to go to sleep on her own. maybe you should try doing a ritual. like every night before bed reading her a book and rocking her or giving her a bath. the bath idea worked for a friend of mine. it was like her ds knew that bedtime was coming and the bath would help soothe him and get him ready. hope some of this might help you;) good luck