How’s your 5 months sleeping ?

Question

My baby is 5 months and two weeks, we’ve been having lots of waking up in the middle of the night to feed. He typically takes about 3 hour naps and goes to bed around 7:40-8:30 and then he wakes up around 11:40-12 then from there he wakes up every two hours 
Please help! Our night routines are very consistent and he’s good at falling back to sleep he just wakes up to eat... do guys have any tips that is working for you and your little ones I’m so exhausted oh and when he wakes up either from nap or sleep he just screams and cries loud, is that normal ? He can’t fall back to sleep unless I pick him up and fed him 😭 
Help mama is exhausted

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This sounds just like my little boy who is the same age. I always cave and just feed him and I've resorted to letting him stay in bed after our 2nd or 3rd wake up so I can get more rest. (I know bed sharing isn't for everyone and we do follow safety guidelines.) I'm sure it will improve soon, or at least that's what I'm telling myself 😂. Hang in there Mamma

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Is each nap 3 hours, or he’s napping3 hours total during the day? If each nap is 3 hours, that’s why he’s not sleeping at night. He should be sleeping 2-3 hour during the day total and eating all of his ounces during the day when he’s awake

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Do you watch him on a monitor before you go in his room? I saw a post on takingcarababies a couple of months ago that even though your baby may be crying, they’re often still asleep (in active sleep). My husband and I found this was the case for us and that we were unintentionally waking our daughter up throughout the night to comfort her which made the tears and screaming even worse. 
Now, if her eyes are still closed we’ll usually still go in there the first 2-3 times she cries out to replace her pacifier because that will quiet her. After that, we don’t disturb her and she falls into deeper sleep in a few minutes. Even if her eyes are open, she’s usually calmed by just replacing the pacifier. 
This may not be the case for you but I wanted to throw this out there for you or anyone else that might read it and find it useful. For reference, she’ll be six months this Friday and drinks about 30 oz. total during the day.

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My baby has the same nap/sleep/wake time as yours. He was a great sleeper until pretty much 5 months exactly. Then he would wake and scream about the same times you say. And pretty much the only way to get him sleepy again was to feed. I just went with it and made sure I put him down right after feeding so he was tired but had to soothe himself back to sleep. He didn’t like it obviously but once I knew he was fed and changed I basically let him cry/fuss until he fell asleep again on his own. If he wouldn’t settle after 15 min or so I’d go in and hold his hand or play his favorite song. It was a long 5 weeks but he’s back to his former good sleeping (I think) at 6 months one week old. You’ve gotta be strong and stick too it! I felt guilty feeding him when he’d wake, but putting him down right away was a sort of compromise. Hope this helps.

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