Sudden regression in 6 mo dd's sleep at night

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My DD is just over 6 months old and was starting to sleep up to 9 consecutive hours at night.

Then about 3 weeks ago it started to change.

Firstly she woke at 3am for a feed for a few nights (I'm still BFing). Then that moved to 4:30 am. Now these last few nights she has been up 3 times a night.
She goes down at 9 pm, then is up at about 1am, 4am and 7am and is generally up for the day at 8.

I feed her and that generally gets her back to sleep, though once or twice she has been up and lively for a couple of hours.

Generally she doesn't cry when she wakes, she is noisy though and takes the feed.

At the moment we are co-sleeping, we're just getting her room set up to move her into her cot bed. We did try getting her in a crib, but she never really took to it so we stuck with the co-sleeping.

Also her 2 bottom front teeth are just coming through. Mostly this seems to cause her pain during the day and we've been giving her Dentinox, teething granuals or Neurofen on the occasions when it seems v painful to her.

We're also weaning her. Started with 1 meal a day at 5 months, now on 2 meals a day and about to introduce the 3rd.

I think there is a pretty big growth spurt at about this time, so perhaps things will settle back down again soon.

I would recommend adding in the 3rd meal soon, and perhaps giving a high protein snack just before bed (eg some cheese) as it fills the tummy for longer. It really helped DS at about 7 months when he went though similar.

Also DS slept loads better when he went into his own room at 6 months. He was quite a light sleeper so woke every time I rolled over :(

6 month sleep regression (be warned there's another one at 9 months!). It will pass and she should go back to her old pattern, unless as she is getting older the daytime sleep needs to be cut back a little?

If the teeth are really bad you can give calpol and ibuprofen together to get her through it.

My DTs also slept much better in their own room and cots.

Not much help I'm afraid but just wanted to let you know that my six month old is going through exactly the same at the moment.

At 5 months he had started sleeping 8 - 9 hrs straight through and we thought he'd finally started sleeping through. Then about three weeks ago he started waking at about 4 am and in the last week has also woken at about 2am - and he won't got down until 11pm - and up for the day at 6 - 7 so all in all = not much sleep for me :(.

He is on two meals a day lunch and dinner but he doesn't take much as isn't too keen on his solids, and have tried adding protein to his dinner but this doesn't seem to help. He also has just sprouted two bottom front teeth.

His day feeds (he is ebf) have gone from every 3 - 4 hrs to every 2 hrs so I'm thinking this growth spurt but am confused as to wether this will only improve when he is eating much more food - as this seems a long way off at the moment. Seems like all I am doing is constantly feeding him either solids or bf.

Am feeling a bit down about it to be honest as really felt things had got so much easier and now everything has gone backwards, and was always being told that once he is on solids he will sleep through, etc, etc.

Sorry forgot to mention he also nows takes an age to resettle after night feeds, he used to feed straight back to sleep but now takes anywhere from 1 - 3 hrs to resettle - nightmare!

Good to hear I'm not the only one going through this! loube80, we seem to be in a similar position, although most night she is resettling quickly. We did have a couple of nights where it took 2 hours.

I've started to introduce a third meal, but am finding she won't always take the last meal of the day. Either she is a bit tired by then or possibly full from her latest BF. We haven't started on protein yet though, so will give that a try. I'm also not sure when I should cut the milk down, it helps her to nap unfortunately so I end up doing it if she is tired during the day.

Her day time naps are between 2 and 3 hours, normally over a feed or in her pushchair.

We struggled getting her into her crib, which was in the same room as us, so hoping the separate room works better.

Just seems that there are so many things to sort out and I'm not sure what order to do them in or when - self settling, getting her in her own room, getting her napping in her cot bed, introducing the 2 meals and cutting milk. Plus do I wait while these first teeth come through and she gets over this growth spurt!

Hi my ds is 6 months and he goes through stages of sleeping 9 hours then starts waking at 3 am. I do not feed him in the night anymore and it improved lots since then. I figured out he had more than enough food and drink during the day and checked with hv who confirmed it was probably just a habit. Could that be an option?

The hv told me if they are having 3 meals a day they still need 18oz of milk my ds gets more than that during the day! I know this is tricky to measure with breastmilk though! I have also just got a blackout blind and am hoping this will help as he starts to stir when its getting light. I'm not sure about sleep regression as my ds doesn't seem to fit the ages they say it will happen at but lots of other mums I know put it down to that.

Just seen the bit about own room, that helped us but then he got poorly so came in with us again! Due to put him back in his own tonight with his blackout blind so hoping it goes well. As for naps, during the day I cuddle him to sleep (back rod alert) and then lay him on the sofa. At night he goes to sleep on his own in his crib, touch wood it stays that way!