What was your babys sleep like after 6 months?

[StrawberryLadybird]

My 6mo DDs sleep has finally improved to the point where she is almost sleeping through the night in her cot (bar either a 10pm or 5am feed). I'm thrilled as for the first few months of her life she would only sleep on me so I was permanently knackered, then no sooner did she decide the bedside cot was acceptable the 4 month regression hit us hard.

Then about 3 weeks ago she randomly slept through, we thought it was a fluke but it's been every night since! I'm thrilled but every night I still think 'is this the night shes up every hour again?'.

So just curious if other people have found 6 months to be a turning point in their babys sleep or is it all likely to turn to shit again

It will change again! Teething.... coughs & colds....dropping the daytime naps...it goes on for years 😂

Knew it, ffs 😂 Will make the most of this then!!

My unborn baby best not get any ideas, I've ordered a variety that sleeps through from day one..
That's how it works, no?

Lol typical MN response!!

Obviously I know there are no guarantees with baby sleep just wondering what others experiences have been.

It was a turning point for us with DC2 as he had a dummy and that was when he learned to replace it himself. But he’d dropped night feeds ages before, we just had to do a 3am dummy replace 2 or 3 times a week up until that point. DC1 was a thumb sucker and slept through consistently much earlier.

My 2 Yr old goes through a few weeks of great sleep. Then horrendous for a few nights.
All the others slept thro from 10 weeks, 10pm till 8am. I was clearly spoilt

Mine were both pretty bad till a year when i stopped breastfeeding during the night. My youngest is 6 and still wakes up some nights.

My boy seemed to improve around 8/9mo (1-2 wake ups) and was sleeping through the night when he was 12mo when I stopped breastfeeding in the day.
Now he is generally a good sleeper unless he is ill or teething.

At 6 months I was in my knees with exhaustion! DS is 9 months and getting better at sleeping, but had a week of 1-2 wakes per night, followed by an ear infection and he was up every 45 minutes. That settled down, his sleep improved, then he learned to pull to stand and his sleep weren't awful again....!

Around 5-6 months (after the awful 4 month regression ended!) was a turning point for DD definitely. Of course there will still be nights when they are teething, unwell, etc and wake up in the night or get up super early, but our experience was that once she learned to sleep through she continued to do so most nights. She’s almost 3 now and still a great sleeper.

DS is almost 5 months and seems to have turned a corner from hourly wake ups to waking only once or twice a night. Like you, I’m praying that he doesn’t go backwards!

DS slept 7-7 from 8 weeks.

We were incredibly lucky and that's part of the reason we stopped at 1 child!

My 8.5 month old has slept 6-6 solid most nights since 12 weeks old
Doesn't nap much in the day and that's getting worse and worse but the nights are good touch wood

My eldest did 10-7 from about 6 weeks and round the clock from about 5 months. She never changed, we used to joke that she would sleep on a washing line. She sucked her thumb and was bf.

We don't talk about the youngest.

Dc1 - 0-6 months dreadful. Longest stint of sleep 2 hours. On my knees with sleep deprivation.
6-12 months minor improvement but still not sleeping through.
1-2y started to sleep through, not consistently.
2-3 years huge improvement. Sleeping through more often than not.
Now 4yo - amazing. Bedtime 10 mins max and sleeps 12 hours unless ill (rare).

Dc2
0-1y - amazing, slept through from about 2 months. Napped anywhere. Dream baby.
1-2y - up and down. Teething and illness meant sleep became very disrupted.
Now 2yo - I think (pray) we are starting to get back on track but just when I relax after a few good nights, we get hit with the next bug/illness and it feels as though it's back to square one!

Dc3
0-6 weeks - typical newborn, fed loads at night.
6 weeks - now (12 weeks) - good (ish), usually at least one 6 hour stint overnight, not guaranteed.
Too early to call if he's a good sleeper or not, definitely better than dc1 by this age though! Fingers crossed!

A solid 8-10 hours something like 8-6, 2 daytime naps

I like this from Sarah Ockwell Smith, my approach is to always quietly enjoy the good sleep as long as it lasts. not that it ever lasts long with my baby 😂 sleep has never been great but I'm finding 7-8 months a killer and seems it could continue for a bit longer yet!

sarahockwell-smith.com/2017/07/24/the-rollercoaster-of-real-baby-sleep/

@anon182 oh no that graph does not bode well at all!! Although I'm highly sceptical things can get worse than the 4 month regression, that was pure hell prays in corner

6m was the turning point for both of mine and pretty much slept through from then om, bar illness.
My 2yo though has decided to be great for a few weeks then will randomly wake shouting/screaming for us for a few nights! No idea why, but it is v stressful and worse because she isnt a baby!