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Sounds like a sleep regression. Around 4 months of age babies go from always being in a super deep sleep to having sleep patterns that now resemble adult sleep (light sleep, rem, deep sleep). Sleep cycles usually last anywhere from 45 min to 2 hours, just like in adults. Basically your baby is waking up and doesn't know how to soothe itself back to sleep and is using you to soothe it, not because its hungry. Introducing purees will not make your child sleep longer. Some babies will learn to soothe on their own after a few months however, a lot of parents find this is an appropriate time to begin since form of sleep training. Hope this helps, best wishes!
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My 5 month old son is ebf. For the last month, he has been waking up every 2 hours. I feed him and he eats and goes right back to sleep. I'm really tired of having to get up every 2 hours. During the day he goes 3 hours without eating. He does fine going to sleep at bedtime. He has a good routine and I put him to sleep drowsy and he falls asleep quickly on his own. Any tips to get him to sleep longer stretching at night?
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Mine was doing that too I started give my him purées and now he maybe gets up once to eat
ta
Just pulled the use of a pacifier. She doesn’t use it at all anymore. She still needs fed once a night
Me
Pulled it meaning don’t feed him at night? This sounds like what mine is doing to us
Me
I tried starting foods and rice in the milk before bed. My 5mo old is still eating 7.5 oz at night. I’ve stopped nursing at night to try to get him to go back to sleep faster but he’s still up to eat several times
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