Any advice ladies. 6 month old not sleeping

[mrsadams]

Ladies hubby and I are in desperate need of your help.

The little man used to be the perfect baby, was sleeping through at 6 weeks. Would go to bed at night around 9/10 and after a few trips up and down he would settle himself.

But after getting poorly with a sickness bug he just doesn't settle without cuddles. Sometimes it can be like he's alseep, with his eyes closed. We have tried spaced soothing, but he just screams and screams. even when we go into him and shhh and stroke him he doesn't stop. The moment you pick him up, (and sometimes we have lasted out hours just trying to calm him and walk away) he stops. He can fall fast asleep, with his body all floppy, but the moment he goes in his cot he starts screaming.

We are both shattered and can't carry on like this. Any advice? He's 6 moths old and has started weaning, i had hoped that more food in his tummy would help but its not. even when he does get to sleep 1hr pretty much exactly he's awake, and it starts again. This happens in the middle of the night too, its almost like he wakes suddenly from a nightmare.

Any ideas very very welcome

Difficult one - my DD went through a similar stage, a little bit older than your DS and eventually we got her settling in her cot, but it would happen again after an illness or cold when she got used to more cuddles in bed with us.

Could it be teething pain that is making him want comfort and waking him up ?

is he getting enough milk as you have recently started solids?.

or does he sleep a lot in the day - doesn't sound so much like that though.

process of elimination and once you think you have sussed it out he will have moved out of the phase probably. Good luck and hang in there - it does get better and try to be kind to DH - I know we were both frazzled for a while and you take it out on one another.

I agree - probably just a phase. Their sleeping patterns change A LOT over the first year and we went through a very similar thing with dd. Incidentally I've never found the amount they eat to be related to how much they sleep.

Is it just at night, or is this all naps as well? With dd we worked on the daytime naps first - even if she wasn't asleep in her cot I would sit next to it and read while she whinged or played with my hair or something. Usually she'd fall asleep eventually, but even falling asleep for 20 minutes after an hour of whinging felt like a triumph. After a few days I could put her down and leave the room while she grumbled a bit until falling asleep.