u/KitchenNatural8852

Hello! I have a very great 13 week old sleeper but am recently having issues with his second “wake” in the night.

He currently goes to bed between 7:30-8:30pm and will wake up like clockwork between 1-3am for his middle of the night feed. But after that, also like clockwork, he will start crying out at 4:45am and just wants to be held. We’ve tried shushing with hands on the chest, offering pacis, picking up to rock which he immediately stops crying with, etc but the second we set him back down he cries again. His eyes are closed and he’s asleep but crying out every 5-30 minutes. We’ve offered bottles and he’s passed out in our arms so he won’t take them but if we lay him back down the process starts all over again.

I’m not sure what to do as he cries hard enough to where I don’t feel comfortable letting him cry it out/he’ll cry so hard he’ll just wake himself up. But it is so exhausting to get up and shush/rock every 10 minutes until we try to be up for the day around 7. Help! Do I just need to suck it up and keep soothing?

Looking for tips on how to keep up supply/increase it when baby starts to take more ounces in bottles. I’m stressing about how to increase as I was over producing and now I’m barely making enough for his new ounce intake