u/Direct_Rain_4974

6 month EBF baby is a horrible sleeper

My 6 month old exclusively breastfed baby who does co-sleep with me is a horrible sleeper. My baby’s always co-slept with me since birth because if I ever tried moving him to his bassinet, he’d wake up immediately. It was just easier for me to co-sleep. However, he’s always been a bad day-napper, he’d always want to contact nap & now the longest he’ll nap is 45 minutes every 2 hours. Around his 5 month mark, after 2 am, he’d wake up every hour. Now he’s awake every hour. I do nurse him to sleep & he wakes up a lot to latch. I know it’s a sleep association & it was manageable before but it’s gotten exhausting. He usually goes to bed at 7/8 & wakes up at 7/8 in the morning. I’m really against sleep training since majority of them sound like different methods of crying it out method. But I am exhausted. My husband works overnights so it’s just me but I’m so tired , I’m no longer productive work wise or personal life. In our night wake ups, I wake up so upset & cranky over which makes me feel like a shitty mom but I just want a longer sleep window . I remember around his 3 months, he was getting almost 4 hour windows so idk what happened.Please need some advice.

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u/Direct_Rain_4974 — 11 days ago