I don't know where else to turn, so I hope that someone has some tips I can try.
My LO will be 5 months old next week. About 3 weeks ago, she stopped sleeping through the night after over a month of consistently doing so. She also started waking up shortly after we laid her down. That weekend 3 weeks ago, we tried rice cereal for 2 days and then decided to wait, and I got the stomach flu. My milk supply (she's exclusively bf) has been a little lower since, but we've been working to build it back up.
Her days have gotten so much better. She's now eating about every 3 hours, where before she was eating every 2. Here's how a typical day goes lately:
4:30 wake up, try paci, feed when paci doesn't work & put straight back down
6:45 Eat - normal wake time, dress & take to daycare by 7:45
8:30-9:30 - Nap
9:30ish Eat
11-11:45 - Nap
11:45 Eat - I breastfeed her over my lunch hour
1:45-2:45 - Nap
2:45 - Eat
5:30 - Eat
6:30-7 - Sometimes takes a cat nap
8 - Eat, read story, sing lullabies, sleep by 8:30
It wouldn't be that bad if she would go straight back to sleep at 4:30, but she's been waking up 20 minutes after she goes to sleep crying. The only thing that gets her back to sleep is if I swaddle her with both arms in and give her a paci, neither of which she used to need. At night, we've had to pu/pd several times to get her to finally stay asleep. She has also started falling asleep at the breast before bed, when she didn't previously.
When we swaddle her arms in at night, she wakes up and fusses when she kicks out of it. Is she getting too used to the swaddle and paci to go to sleep?
That's all I can think of. Anyone have any tips? Thanks so much for reading this.