How are your 6/7mo's sleeping?

[Littleraysofsunshine]

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Like shit!

Yours?

Not too bad, 7-7 mostly, with a cuddle about 8.30, for some reason.

Waking once at night for a feed, then starting the day at 7am
Naps:
8.15am -9.30am
12pm - 2pm
5pm - 5.30pm

bedtime at 7pm

Loads worse now than when she was 2/3 months old!

She has a cough so I'm hoping that this is part of the reason!

Fast asleep at 7 - wakes at least twice before waking at 5 when I pull her in bed with me til 7.

She is still in with us as she'll be sharing with her sister who is 3 when she's ready.... she's not ready!

Oh dear God...mine's awake upwards of six times a night and will only nap longer than 15-20 minutes if it's on me, and at different times every day. Can you two please go and count all of your blessings several times over? Thanks.

Mine was a fab sleeper but that's long gone! Asleep at 7:30ish but can get 3 or 4 wake-ups before we go to bed at 10:30ish, then one or two more in the early hours before she wakes for good sometime between 5 and 6:30. The ones in the early hours are worst as its very difficult to get her back to sleep. I long for the good old days! She has teeth coming through but it hard started to get worse before that I think. Daytime napping also s**t (again used to be v good). She does about 3 naps for 15-30 mins each. Exhausted.

Mine hasn't gone through since end of September, am pretty exhausted :'( I'm also blaming it on teething and one cold after another but it's never-ending at the moment :'(

A new low - I've not slept at all yet tonight

Mines always been terrible, generally a 45minute sleep cycle, 2hrs at the longest.

On my birthday she slept from 11pm-6am, like a gift, then straight back to rubbish again. She's been up 3 times already since 9pm and will no doubt be up another 5 before morning :(

I was about to write up my problem, but seems I've not got it too bad! A couple of weeks ago he was terrible; up countless times a night, so I took action! Maybe could help? I got rid of his dummy, which meant several nights of pain but now it's forgotten and he isnt waking for it. I've started to put him to bed earlier (6.30pm) as keep reading that well rested babies sleep better, giving a long winded but consistant bed time routine. Finally, have been strict and not fed him in the Night and left him to cry a bit. Hes now got to a cry for about 10 seconds then silence. Best thing I've found is to write a plan!

Lozmatoz - DD would never have a dummy, I already don't feed her at night, she has a constant bedtime routine (which she's had since 3 weeks)including wind-down and no playing after bath and usually asleep by 7. She used to sleep through about half the time and just wake once the rest but hasn't done that for weeks. Don't know what it is really but really hope it's the teeth. She used to settle herself if left crying for a minute or two but now progresses to screaming very quickly

Have tried feeding her while she's not been sleeping well to see if it's a growth spurt but she just spits it out as she's not hungry at night anymore.

Mine too!! DS1 was a great sleeper, still is.

DS2 however... he was a dream to put to bed a few weeks ago, when I could just pop him in his cot, give him a kiss and wander off. I suddenly remembered that evenings were a restful part of the day when I could cook, exercise, spend time with DH. But now he screams and screams, sometimes for an hour, when I try to put him down. Tried the cot, tried in bed with me, tried the bouncy chair, tried a vibrating chair. Tried upstairs, tried downstairs, tried leaving him to scream it out. Tried wearing him out, tried an earlier bedtime, tried a later bedtime... nothing works and the screaming is horrendous. I do use controlled crying, but this is out of control! It's making the whole family miserable.

I was wondering whether it was separation anxiety? DS1 never really suffered from it, so I don't really know how to deal with it. The same happens at naptime... what on earth am I supposed to do?

I can only think of two other things -

1. this started after a heavy cold when he would wake up, cry, clear his airways in a few moments and go back to sleep. Because he was settling I didn't bother getting up to check him. It happened 2-3 times a night. Habit? Possible cause of separation anxiety?

1. He's very active, but still in his baby crib. I have found him a couple of times wedged against the side of the cot where he has been thrashing around. I have just had a big cot-bed delivered today. When he was in bed with me last night he turned over and slept on his front all night, only waking up once. I will put him in the new cot asap.

Any thoughts??

DD started sleeping badly in crib at 4 months as couldn't turn over and now sleeps in cotbed on side or front and started sleeping through after that and was great from 4-6m, just terrible for last month. She is really physical and moves about a lot in her sleep to settle herself. I had to get cot bumpers though as otherwise she'd get arms or legs wedged though sides. HTH.

Definitely - lack of movement is, we think, exacerbating the issue. I'm off to set that cot up now!! Thanks. Perhaps if he can faff around rolling over (which he loves, he's going through his mexican bean stage where he just rolls around all over the floor, no matter how big the floor is he still covers it!) he will find it easier to settle himself.

He still has some reflux, so perhaps sleeping on his tummy will help. xxx

My dd2 is doing different timings. The past few weeks its been bed at 9ish . She doesn't cry, just seems happy enough to be awake and playing. Ten I nurse her and she'll go off until about 1? Then a feed about 4/5 then again at 7 ish. But some nights it'll be a 730-10 then 1ish, then 4 ish then 630 ish...

I breastfeed on demand, she has always been a short feeder, five/ ten mins. He started foods about a month ago.

I know my first girl (now two) was waking a bit. But just use to having me there I think. We moved her into her own room at 13m when she weaned to cows milk and she's slept through ever since..