My baby is waking more now than she did at new born

[Babygirlmum]

My daughter is 6 and a half months old and I feel like she is waking through the night for a feed more now than she did when she was new born, does anyone have any rips or recommend anything? is anyone else's baby like this?

Yeah we had this for 2 months. It was teeth (8 of them, all at once). Night weaning helped, but you just have to ride it out. Does she settle to sleep okay? Other than settling issues and hunger, there's not much you can do I'm afraid.

Yep I remember this and tbh he went through stages of it until 18month!

Teething
Growth spurt
Just wanting comfort

It's hard but does pass

It's pretty normal tbh.
People just don't tend to tell mums with newborns about it, especially they are struggling.

Both of mine slept worse as an older babies/young toddlers than newborns. That was the easy sleep bit.

Having a baby/toddler that frequently wakes, and dragging yourself off to work the next morning is next level hard.

Most do eventually improve, but some take their sweet time about it.

Feeling the same at the mo. DD was sleeping through from about 4 months and it was amazing but the last month or 2 she will wake at 1-2am ish and will only settle with milk.
Some nights she goes straught back to sleep, others she will be awake for 2-3 hours messing about (as in laughing and rolling around in an over tired state).
Im blaming it on teeth as she seems to be cutting a few lower ones all at the same time. No upper ones yet though.

All of mine slept worse as older babies and toddlers than when newborns. The newborn bit was the calmest , easiest bit with all my dcs. It’s prob a phase and will pass op, one of many phases , good luck !

Newborns was the easy bit for us. I don't know when it ends but as long as you've ruled out hunger, optimised day naps, and have a bed time routine.....then you can be fairly sure it's teething, growth spurt, wind, fussy stage! It's hard.

My DD slept better at 3 months than she did at 12 months! I found this useful to read when I was in the thick of it
sarahockwell-smith.com/2017/07/24/the-rollercoaster-of-real-baby-sleep/

Yeah they seriously kill you into a false sense of security the first few months! Months 4-7 were worst for us. It's got progressively better since then with they odd blip when she's ill or teething. Hang in there, it will get better.

😂 not kill, lull! Although I spent a lot of time wondering how long it took to die from sleep deprivation so kill might not be far off.

totally normal

it’s biologically normal for babies and toddlers to wake up overnight for many reasons.

I was going to share the same Sarah Ockwell-Smith article!

OP this is totally normal, it's just not something that's spoken about a lot - the misconception is that sleep gets better the older the baby gets (which simply isn't true, unless you've been very lucky). It's to do with sleep cycles changing once they're out of the newborn period.

Sounds normal to me. Newborns just sleep and feed. You can’t compare a 6 and a half month old with a newborn. They will be weening for a start.