Looking for advice, 6 month old still waking 2 hourly overnight
My LO normally only sleeps for stretches of 2-3 hours overnight like a newborn and it’s slowly killing me! I also have a 3 year old at home and my other half works full time, he is normally out of the house from 6am to 6pm so there is no time in the day to catch up on any rest. I feel like I am half-arsing parenting in the day time because I’m so tired from the night before, I’m running on fumes most of the time and definitely less tolerant with my son and my partner when I’m tired.
My 6 month old has been EBF, recently we have tried to integrate an evening bottle of formula at 10:30pm when she would normally wake in the hope of her sleeping longer and to give me a bit of a break but it doesn’t seem to have made any difference. Within 20 mins of me lying in bed she’s awake wanting another feed, I get the night time fear and then find it difficult to sleep even when she’s sleeping. I’ve tried sleeping on the other side of the bed but this doesn’t seem to have helped either and she still wakes 2 hourly. Ideally we would put her in her own room at this point but we don’t have the space at the moment as we are awaiting completion on a new place.
I realise I may be expecting too much as she’s still young but my son was sleeping through the night at this point, he was combination fed hence we thought the formula could help. We are planning on starting some solids soon which might change things but any advice or tips from others who have been in a similar position would be greatly appreciated!