6 month old waking every hour

[TunaJacket]

My 6 month old has always been a bad sleeper.

We have reluctantly bedshared since 3 months to survive but he still wakes every hour (sometimes more, never longer!).

He is easy to just nurse back to sleep but this can’t go on forever….. however I really don’t think I have it in me to sleep train.

For anyone that had babies similar, how did things progress for you without sleep training?

Thank you!

my DD was exactly the same and is now 9 months and I hate to say it but in many ways she’s actually worse.

at 6 months she was waking every 45mins-1hr to be fed back to sleep, ultimately I did attempt every form of sleep training and none of it worked. Reluctantly I did CIO, deciding to cap it at 30mins because I couldn’t bear to leave her any longer than that because I already did not want to try this but felt like I had no options left with a ridiculously overtired baby who also barely napped in the day.
30 mins of crying the first night and I was moments away from giving up when she stopped crying and then started chatting to herself for the next hour and then fell asleep. After that I had her falling asleep by herself every night but I’ll be honest, it did nothing to help all the night wakings, she’d just cry and cry until I fed her back to sleep each time, and eventually for some reason she stopped putting herself to sleep even initially.

I tried to sleep train again this week and we had 20 mins of crying and then she lay there quiet and still looking like she’d go to sleep, and then managed to just wake herself up completely and ending up being awake until midnight from her last nap end of 4pm.

I guess what I’m saying is that sleep training doesn’t fit every baby and despite all your best efforts, sometimes baby’s just don’t sleep.

the hourly wake ups stopped eventually and DD now occasionally does 3-4 hour blocks but we now have the problem of 3hr long split nights every single night. I know it’s not helpful to you but just to say you aren’t alone with a sleepless baby! Hoping she gets better as she gets older, currently going to cut out dairy to see if it’s somehow affecting her as I am truly running out of things to try

I would continue nursing back to sleep. I know this doesn’t help and probably not what you want to hear, but eventually he will start and sleep more.

my LO is 14 months old and is starting to sleep through. Sometimes he does, other times he’s awake several times a night. Babies aren’t meant to sleep through especially a 6 month old. There’s nothing wrong with your child, it’s just western culture has convinced us babies should sleep through.

also to add - I completely am against any forms of sleep training.

Thank you both, I appreciate hearing your experiences! If nothing else to know that I am okay to carry on as I am and it just is what it is.

I do really miss sleep though! 😴😭

Did this get any better for you. Currently in the same boat. Xxx