Help! Sleep advice needed

[Tasha2106]

So...we’ve got a 6 month old son who has from birth been a relatively good sleeper. By about 3 months old was mainly sleeping through the night. In the last 4 weeks I have not had one full night sleep. He goes down around 8pm and Wakes anytime between 1-2am but will not go back down into his cot. I have tried for like 2 hours some nights but we end up having to go downstairs so that my partner can sleep as they are at work early. He is eating solids and drinking the milk that he should during the day. And no matter how he naps during the day it has no effect on his sleep at night. I now absolutely dread going to bed knowing I’m going to be up all night. He will only sleep whilst I hold him however I do not want to co sleep with him as I worry too much to be able to sleep then. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. We are both struggling and extremely sleep deprived

Is he about to start crawling OP?

I don’t think so.. he hasn’t even properly rolled over yet and doesn’t enjoy being on his front at all x

Ok was just wondering as a developmental leap can make them start waking. Is she having a lot of solids? Sometimes their gut can be a bit immature and that wakes them or, if they’re having a lot of solids they need to catch up with the milk at night.

Are you sure about not having her in your bed? If you follow the safe sleeping guidelines she will be fine

No advice but DD2 is 5.5months and she will only sleep in bed with me. I hate it but it's the only way I get a decent night's sleep. We started off well but she went down hill around 3 months and sleep has been a pain ever since. We go on holiday next week so are going to wait until we get back to tackle it. I think gradual retreat to start off with before resorting to controlled crying.

This book might help both of you

Thank you I will have a look at that. Think we may have to consider co sleeping (just to keep our sanity) :)

I know it’s not helpful but for the first year my baby when through various sleep patterns, just when I thought I had cracked it, all changed again. They will fall back in line, as mentioned it is usually related to developmental changes, have you started weaning?

Yes have started weaning him he is having small portion of fruit or veg in morning around an hour after first bottle and then another around 5. His naps seems a lot shorter during the day now lasting up to half hour at most. I wondered if he is getting over tired? He is also having around 30 ounces of milk during the course of the day

Maybe swap the 5pm solids to afternoon? My sons dietician advises not to do food in the evening until built up the other two meals first as immature guts can take longer to process the food and cause issues such as sleepless nights.

Also we went through similar at 6 months and by the time it had settled down his naps had completely change to what they were before. Good luck!

Oh okay I didn’t realise that I will change that up tomorrow then hopefully that may be better for him :) x

Do you do bottles at night? We had mostly stopped at that point but we introduced a dream feed as well and that helped a lot

He will sometimes take a dream feee around 10-11pm but that doesn’t seem to help