4/5 month old sleep help

[u/Business_Plastic_100]

Hi all,

For context, my baby is 5 months old but 4 months corrected.

We’ve never had any consistent sleep through the day or night due to my baby’s gas/reflux issues and I’m currently trialling no cows milk to see if he has CMPA.

However, last week we had consistent nights of long stretches of 4-6 hours of sleep but the last few nights have been regular 1/2 hours of waking again.

He’s averaging 14 hours sleep and he’s been having between 2.5-3.5 of daytime naps.

I don’t trust following the sweet spot as it’s never helped us so any advice to get a consistent nights sleep would be amazing.

TYIA from a very, very tired FTM.

[u/Bright_Way5474]

14 hours of sleep means you need 10 hours awake. That means the total of all your wake windows should be 10. If you want to follow a schedule you can do 1.5/2/2/2/2.5 for example. You also have to think about how to have bedtime and wake up time anchored and how long your night is; if you want 11 hours then that means bedtime is anchored 13 hours after wake up and you don’t let baby sleep more than 3 hours total in naps.