My 6 month old son has been a pretty bad sleeper for about 2 months now and it seems to be getting progressively worse. Going to bed around 7:30 he will wake at 11 to have a feed and then sleep until around 2am. From then he will wake up continuously until about 5 where he will finally go back to sleep until 7-7:30. Lately he has been waking every 5-10 minutes after 2am and I have been giving up at about 3-3:30am and putting him in my bed where he sleeps just fine. Before now he has never slept in our bed as I have never felt the need to have him in there but he seems to actually sleep well with us and we are at the point now we just need sleep! Does anyone have any advice on why he might be waking like this? I have spent the last few months trying to resettle him. He falls asleep in his bed with his dummy and we are happy to keep replacing it until he can do it himself but sometimes it hasn’t fallen out he is crying around his dummy. He isn’t hungry as he has enough milk in the day alongside solids. I don’t think he is cold either as I control the room temp with a heater and he has a warm sleep suit. I just don’t know what’s causing this waking!
Im worried of creating bad habits of sleeping in our bed and not being able to sleep on his own. Im a first time mum and not really sure where to go from here… any advice would be greatly appreciated!