Ok so I'm new on the site looking for help! I've read many posts to see if I can find some advice but no one has my situation, either their baby got sick and stopped sleeping, or they're bottle fed, or they don't nap during the day.
My baby boy is 5.5 months is EBF with solids 2x a day, one at lunch time and one at dinner and has been since he was 4 months so it's not new to him. He has never been sick, not teething, naps great during the day, eats great, overall he's a perfect, healthy normal baby - until night time. We have a night time routine then he goes to sleep for 2 MAYBE 3 hours then wakes up, sleeps for another hour then wakes and so on... He does sleep with me which i don't mind because he sleeps longer at night with me, but I can't nap during the day with him because he wont nap with me, which has me so confused. Here is our typical 24 hour schedule (give or take but its our average day) someone PLEASE help me, I am so tired all the time...
6:00 wakes up, nurse, dad takes over until 7:15
7:15 nap for about 45 min - 1 hr
8:00 nurse, play
10:00 nap
11:30 nurse, play with solids about 12:30
1:00 nap
2:30 nurse, play (or run errands if needed)
4:15 nap
5:30 nurse, play
30 min nap depending on his last nap
Bedtime between 8-9:00
Wakes at 10:30 OR 11:30, if he wakes at 10:30 hell go back to sleep no prob. til 11:30 then wakes again and SCREAMS until I feed him. I try pushing it off until midnight but usually only make it to 11:45. Then he wakes again at 1-1:30 back down no prob wakes at 2:30 feeds, wakes at 4 sometimes back down, then he will sleep until between 5:45 and 6:00.
Now he USED to sleep from about 8:30 to 1-1:30 to eat then until 4:30 and then sleep til between 6 and 7 but not since he was 4 mo. And I've tried putting him to bed earlier but it's the same thing just an hour ahead and he wakes up at 5am. I've tried babywise, baby whisperer, CIO for the worst 3 days of my life, pu/pd, rocking him to sleep and putting him down... Nothing works... I don't even care at this point if he sleeps through the night, I'd give anything just to get him back to only waking twice!!
Oh and he's still swaddled with his legs free or else he punches himself in the face. No reflux, no other problems. Ped recommended CC but I can't. We've tried other crying methods and he cried for hours and I just can't let him cry that long... Any suggestions would be great. Thanks