6mo sleep routines/habits?

[peachweach]

What are your 6mo's sleeping habits? I'm struggling with what's right and not right with my 6mo's sleep routine for her naps and at bedtime, I keep hearing different things from different people and all of this making a rod for your back stuff.

DD is normally awake for around 2hrs before she's wanting to go back down for a nap, this is her routine at the moment:

7.30am wake up
8.00am breakfast, 6oz bottle, porridge/toast
9.30/10am nap, around about an hour or so, sometimes a little longer
12pm lunch, 6oz bottle, veg/dinner Ella's pouch and 1/2 a fruit Ella's pouch
1/1.30pm nap, she often has a longer sleep after lunch, sometimes for around 2hrs
3.30/4pm 4oz bottle
5.30/6pm dinner, veg/dinner Ella's pouch and 1/2 fruit Ella's pouch, 6oz bottle after
6.30/7 bedtime

She sleeps through the night from around 10pm until around 7.30am and if she does wake up late in the night she'll mostly get herself back off to sleep, but the time from her going down after her dinner until it gets to around 10pm she will often wake up every 40mins or so.

Often during her daytime naps she will wake up after 20/30 minutes too and have to be comforted back to sleep, after which she'll sleep for a longer stretch. Sometimes she's just so awake after 20/30 minutes that I get her up for a bit, it's almost like it's all she needs to recharge her batteries for an hour or so but then she ends up having lots of little naps instead of a few longish ones.

She'll go to sleep laying on me or me rocking her, then I'll put her in the cot asleep, but I have so many people telling me that by her age she should be going into her cot awake and going to sleep on her own. I have managed to get her to sleep from awake in her cot a few times but I really struggle doing it as I have such a bad back at the moment from pregnancy and birth trauma that I can't bend over the cot for long to comfort her, and I know I'm not supposed to pick her up when I'm trying to sleep train. I don't want to do the cry it out method so I'm struggling with not picking her up!

I'm also living with relatives at the moment with DD and DH as we have just relocated, so I think I'm extra anxious about DD crying etc as I don't want to be too noisy etc whilst I'm not in my own home, if that makes sense? I'm very comfortable here but I suppose it always will feel different parenting in someone else's house as there's always another opinion etc weighing in!

I guess what I'm asking is, is her routine/habits fairly normal compared to other 6mo routines? And is it so bad that I'm still holding her to sleep? I'm prepared to hear that I'm not doing myself any favours, I just can't seem to drop the habits

This is nearly identical to my routine ! So hopefully we aren't doing anything wrong !

Only difference is my little boy has 3 naps a day one around 9ish 10 after getting up for the day at around 6:30 / 7

One sort of mid day and one late afternoon

At night I put him in his cot around 7 after a bath and baby massage and his white noise sends him to sleep pretty fast, however we do give him a bottle while in the cot before bed which you're not really meant to do but it works for us so I don't really mind

He still sometimes wakes for the odd feed though

I think we're doing alright haha ! Every baby is different and as long as they're healthy etc I think you shouldn't worry about your methods / routine :)

I'd try and worry less about doing what others say is right and focus on if it's working for your baby. If they are happy and not over tired your doing Ok! They change so quickly that just when your in a good routine they need something else! I'd honestly worry less about getting themselves to sleep from awake at this point. My daughter did beautifully at 6 months and now at 18 months is point blank refusing to let me leave the room!

Thank you for reassuring me, I'm a FTM as you can probably tell And sometimes I find myself questioning my methods when it all gets a bit stressful!
@jacobsgirl maybe I'll introduce her bath as part of her bedtime routine instead of the morning then, and I might sneak a bottle into her cot too haha, anything to get her to sleep without too much fuss!!
@icklekid this is what I keep telling myself when I come out of my stress head mode, they're changing so much all the time and I need to stop worrying so much, I just need to remember that at night when I'm trying to get her down!

Your doing a great job. Try and be kind to yourself! It just gets better and better from 6 month old in my experience (from 2!)