5 month old sleeping like the newborn trenches!
Baby is 5 months old with intense temperament. She started rolling 3 weeks ago from back to belly but hasn’t rolled belly to back and it has been very disruptive to sleep. She’s never been a sleepy baby but we were getting decent stretches before she rolled like anywhere between 3-6 hours for the first stretch and then she’ll wake every 2 hours after that. I would see her on the cameras self soothing sometimes. Now she will wake up every 2 hours on her stomach crying and not self soothing.
Lots of tummy time during the day. Room is super dark with white noise.
Idk if it’s the rolling or sleep regression or both.
I stopped swaddling at 4 months bc she would break out of it all the time.
I used to bounce her on a yoga ball to sleep but she’s a big baby and she also doesn’t want me to hold her to sleep unless she’s super sleepy so I started using a stroller and once she’s asleep, I take her to her bedroom where she will wake up so I have to give her milk so that she sleeps and then I transfer her to the crib. Sometimes she stay asleep and other times, she will roll to her side and sleep. If she rolls to her stomach, I have to intervene bc she will spit up. I don’t know how to break that cycle it’s the only thing that works right now. She has to have both the strolling and the milk…CIO is not for me and with Ferber, she gets more upset when I come in and don’t pick her up.
She drinks almost 26-32 ounces in a day.
I’ve spoke to several sleep consultants and haven’t found one that isn’t just reading a one size fit all script to me. I just don’t know how to handle sleep training when she hasn’t mastered rolling both ways.
Also I feel like her temperament makes it harder to sleep train.
She will nap 2.5 hours total a day and will sleep maybe 11 hours total of broken sleep at night. Every so often, she will sleep 6-8 hours straight in which I think we’ve turned a corner but the next day we go back to waking up every 2 hours.
I’ve never co-slept with my baby but I’m so sleep deprived I’m considering it but at the same time, I don’t know if my baby would like it anyways since she doesn’t like to be cuddled.
Any advice ok how to get through this phase??