6 month sleep regression - help!!

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6 month sleep regression - help!!

I’m in the thick of the worst sleep regression we’ve had yet and it’s slowly killing me!
Little one is 6 months, and for the last 3 weeks she’s gone from fab sleep (waking just once a night or sleeping through), to waking every 45-60 mins to feed (ebf) or cry. What is happening?? Everyone talks about the 4 month sleep regression but that was a walk in the park compared to this!
Anyone else had this? Will her good sleep return?
Any tips that aren’t to do with hard sleep training would be amazing, thanks! 🙏

Sounds like teething. My DS did the same at 6 months on the dot. Calpol.

It took about 2 weeks for teeth to peak through so we didn't realize it was teething.

We had this at 6 months with twin 2 and now at 7.5 months it still isn’t quite back to where it was. It’s getting better but not sleeping through like he was. Thankfully we don’t have it with twin 1 too!!
We calpol’d one night thinking it was teething and he slept really well but I didn’t want to make it a habit. His teeth still haven’t come through so I don’t think it’s that. We just had to ride it out. A dream feed has helped and makes him last that little bit longer.

Teething or ear infection would be high on my list. Try Calpol or ibuprofen before bed and see if that helps. I had to give pain relief to my LO many nights running when molars when coming in, far more often than I would have been comfortable with before we were in that situation. However you could see the benefit - from waking every 30 minutes to deep, restful sleep. Eventually the policy for my house was two screaming wakes before midnight that aren't hunger = give pain relief.

Did she just go from a next2me to a big cot? Mine oldest had a big sleep regression caused by suddenly being able to move!

Thank you so much!! I did wonder teething because she’s started to smack her lips a lot and run her tongue around her mouth and almost look like she’s gurning haha. No temp and seems well otherwise. But I’ll try calpol tonight. Hopefully that might help if it is teething 🤞

We haven’t yet moved from her next to me. We were going to do that soon, but won’t now until she now comes out of this regression. She’s quite little and still fits in it for now which is handy. But slightly dreading moving her.

She’s definitely generally struggling a bit - she’s fighting naps in the day, and having a big feeding crisis as well 😓

Mine loved going into the big crib and actually improved his sleep. We actually did it at 4.5 months as he was rolling and he was waking up because he didn't have enough space to roll back and forth at night.

I’m sorry to hear that you’re going through this. A few weeks ago I would have said it passes but here I am going through it again now he is 20 months old.

I don’t think it’s teething as he has most of his teeth but it seems to just be whenever he’s hit a new milestone or having a growth spurt.
The only hope I can give you is that I have been here with two others and come out the other side.
I have now resorted to having him in bed with us when he wakes because it hurts my arm leaning into the cot to soothe him only to scream as soon as we stop so he is happier in our bed but only he goes in and out of sleep but is comforted and so not screaming all night but broken sleep is the worst torture.
I hope I haven’t made a rod for my back but we tried controlled crying but after a few minutes he would be beside himself hot and screaming and so was never going to settle.
We also tried puttting in the night garden on bbciplayer in our room for him to watch in our bed while we drifted back off and eventually he’d fall asleep but I know that will go down like a led balloon on here.
You just have to do what works and remember it’s not forever and there’s no right or wrong way to get through it if you need sleep nothing going to hurt temporarily.

I just read your update that she’s in a next to me crib so that might be easier.
Also wanted to say he’s gone from one long 3 hour solid nap a day to about 20 minutes which is around when he started this latest sleep regression too.