Is this good or bad for a 6 month old? (Sleep)

[WanderingStars]

I think it's normal ish - DH thinks it's terrible. Maybe it's a bit worse than average.

DD goes to bed at 6pm
Dream feed 9.30pm
Wakes and just wants dummy in 2am
Wakes and has bottle 3am (straight back to sleep)
Wakes for dummy again 4am
Wakes for the day 6.10am

Will he take a bottle at 2 instead of the dummy?

There isn't really good or bad,it is what it is and you just get through it.

I think that’s amazing! I have a four mo th old who’s up every two hours...

who knows but my little boy is 6.5 months and this is his routine

bottle at 7/7.30am
brekfast 8/30am
nap 9.30/10am
bottle 11.30/12pm
lunch 1pm - 2pm
bottle 4pm
dinner 5pm
bottle 7/7.30pm
bed 8/8.30pm

wakes up may 2/3 times in the night just for dummy, wakes up for the days about 6.30am

That's amazing.

At 6 months mine woke 8-12 times a night!

That's good sleep for 6 months. Some babies will be better but many will be worse.

Sorry not a very helpful response. I don't think there is a normal as such but I think that you get a decent chunk of evening, good spaced out feeds and a reasonable wake up time.
It's all about what you can put up with though and whether tweaking would make it better or worse. Mine were not sleeping anywhere near that at 6months.

Are you BF or FF?

We combination feed and 12 week old has a formula bottle at 9pm then sleeps through til 5/6am. She only wakes if she has a wet nappy other than that (thank you Aldi for your super-absorbent nappies!).

I do think we're super lucky but it's definitely down to the formula as the other night she fell asleep on boob and I couldn't wake her for her bath (she stirred, I knew she was fine, just super tired) but she woke 3 times through the night for a top up feed.

What happens if you don't do the dream feed? Does DC wake up for it later in the night?
Could you try doing it a bit later to get an extra hour or 2 sleep in?

DS sleeps roughly 7.30-6.30 and wakes 4-8 times for a feed. Most times he goes back to sleep in 10-15 mind but every 2 to 3 nights he is awake for a longer period. The feed is more about sleep association than hunger. He was better before the 4 month regression.

At this age DD was sleeping roughly 8-6.30 with a feed at 12 and 4.

Some babies still wake loads and some sleep through, so I guess you are somewhere in the middle really.

Neither good nor bad, average IME. As long as the wake ups are sorted quickly I would be fine with that kind of sleep for the time being.

I don't think it's great but I don't think it's terrible. Fairly average. Could definitely be worse!

Will he take a bottle at 2 instead of the dummy?

Sorry,or Bf?

I bottle-fed so was thinking back to ds at 6 months.

I think that’s not bad, or at least close to getting better. Get a sleepytot bunny or similar and he’ll be self-dummying within a few weeks. Then in theory you’ll be down to one feed at 3ish, which is good going for 6 months.

Will look at the sleepytot haven't heard of them. She is formula fed so on bottles. If we don't do the dream feed she wakes for a feed at around midnight so it disturbs is a bit more.

If she wakes at 12 would she then sleep through til 5? Just thinking at least then you'd get a good chunk of sleep in rather than broken sleep.

Actually, looking at that again I would find it quite tough as from 2 until 6 you are up every hour pretty much, and that's the time of night I feel is hardest to deal with. If I was in same situation, I'd start removing dummy as a sleep association as it's causing two wake-ups and meaning your sleep is very broken. If it was just the one wake-up for the bottle it looks a lot better.

My DD is six months and we've always been pretty lucky with her sleep - she generally does 6.30/7 - 6/6.30 with one wakeup for a breastfeed, which I think is more for comfort at this stage as she doesn't feed for long but I'm happy to keep going!

My daughter is 2 now and still wakes up four times in the night . Count yourself lucky haha x