6 month old sleep patterns

[Digii]

Hello

My 6 month old had started sleeping 8 pm to 6 am waking just once at about 3. Now he's started to awake every 3 hours!

I'd been bringing him into my bed when he awoke at 3 and now when he awakens the first time he simply refuses to settle back in his crib!

Also in general (even through the day) I find it almost impossible to get him to sleep even if he's very sleepy unless I offer him the breast. Once I do he nods off in moments. Is this a healthy habit?

I've just started him in nursery for a couple of hours so dont want too many changes for him, and am not in favour of the cry-it-out methods.

Any advice please?

My 6 month old is the same, I don't know what to do. She used to sleep like a dream, then just before xmas started waking frequently. So i started to introduce a bottle of formula before bedtime and that seemed to do the trick. But then she got chickenpox and basically didn't sleep for a week and since he its been a nightmare, waking every few hours. don't know what to do!

Similar! Mine had a cold and since this problem has begun. I've tried the formula too, but hasn't yet worked for me :(

Well she's now refusing the bottle and decided that feeding from me through the night is much better. Its just so disheartening when you think you have it cracked and you're back to square one.

Oh dammit I opened this thread hoping to find the answer! Another one with a 6 month old waking every three hours. Tried formula too but no difference :( he has a good 20-30 min bf at 11, between 1-2 and again between 4 and 5. I'm half dead.... He eats brilliantly during the day with bf every 4 hours and falls asleep for naps without feeding. Is this a phase then? Are we dusting off the mantra: TTSP? I need more sleep to function :(

Oh lord, me too, with a nearly 7 month old. Waking several times in the night, sometimes stuck across the cot, sometimes wide awake and smiling, sometimes for no reason at all as far as I can tell. I'm knackered too.

Sometimes just her music box is enough to get her back to sleep, sometimes we need to rock her, but sometimes she's so awake only a nappy change and feed will do.

I'm now developing an inability to go back to sleep after being woken.

Please someone come along to this thread and help us!

Sorry but me too...7 m DD, awake 11, 2 and 5 most nights...ugh

Also rolling round the cot grinning her head off in the wee hours...

I also lie awake waiting for the next wake up call (and hearing DH snoring in the next room, grr)
Some slight comfort in not being the only one!

Lol at "slight comfort"! The only positive I can find is all the extra mn time I get

Mae, how do you get your grinning fiend back to sleep?

Sorry - was off attending to said fiend
She's in a co-sleeper cot so I rub her back and say shh and if that doesnt work take her into the actual bed and if that doesnt work feed her...again...(tired emoticon)

This will either make you all feel better or else you will want to kill me .
DS is 6 months and used to sleep really well. We both got flu at xmas and since then night time as been a nightmare. Waking every hour and crying and sleeping with me in my bed and feeding constantly.
Then, out of nowhere, last night he slept through 9 to 6 :)

Hhmm, PeanutButter, I haven't quite decided how I feel about you yet. I think at the moment you're making me feel better, but I reserve the right to kill you if we have another bad night.

Mae, the reason I ask is that I read somewhere (might have even been here, all useful memory and mind function has evaporated) that if your LO wakes regularly it's a habit, and if it's sporadic then they need food.

Digii, I have the same problem, my DD used to self-settle really well, and now I have to feed her to sleep each time.

*wonders in muttering 'It wont last...it's just a phase' to herself...'Please...it's just a phase'

Hmm so if it's a habit to wake every three hours I can employ dh at the weekend to help crack it? [evil grin]. We did that with DD when she was 14 months and I was barely functioning by then, he went in and offered her water instead if she wouldn't go back off just with back rubbing etc... Worked a charm, only 3 nights! Thing is she was that bit older - not sure ds will understand "mummy milk doesn't work at night anymore"!

I'm desperate for 9-6! Bliss :)

Fingers firmly crossed for a miracle tonight for us all! [ever hopeful]

Actually since posting the nights have taken a turn for the better and she's only been waking twice.
I think the issue is I feel a bit thrown. When she was a newborn and waking through the night you don't hesitate to feed back to sleep, but now i'm kinda doubting myself and unsure what my next step is.

On no I too was hoping to click this open and find a solution! If it helps anyone feel better mine is waking every 1 hour and 50% of these times I can't get hin to stay back in the cot though will slrrp on shoulder fine. Sorry typos is on my shoulder now is 5am here in oz xx

Why do we all seem to be in the same boat! we are only trying to be the best mummys we can be! my 6mth is pretty good during the day and leads you into a false sense that tonight is going to be the night!... But no. half and hour after you put her down she wakes up and screams the place down. I can feed her, change nappy, rock her, shsh her, put white noise on but nothing works. she is currently down stairs with me as I dont want er waking ds!x help x

theresapotato that's exactly how I feel too, should he really be feeding this much during the night? But he really won't go to sleep otherwise so I can't see any other way.

butternut ouch that sounds bad :(

I've already been up this evening to feed him since he went down at 7:30 which is unusual so who knows what tonight will bring. I was hoping to slope off to bed and leave dh with some formula but I'm not so sure now. I was also going to do a nappy change tonight too and see if that helps

How did everyone do last night? DS went down in his cot at 8 and played a little til he fell asleep. Woke for a feed at 1.30 and I put him back in his cot after. Then woke again at 4.30 so I brought him into bed with us a fed him to sleep. Up at 6 which is normal.
Not a bad night, I think!!

Went to bed at 8, up at 3, came in our bed at 5, kicked me until quarter to 7 when DH got up with him...

All in all, not bad.

Hi Helen. {whispers to her must not hijack this thread like we did the other)
DS seems to know not to kick or hit mummy. As far as he's concerned though DH is a different matter! :)

The worst night for a while... Down at half 7, up at half 9 (screamed til
Fed) midnight (fed again), half 1, 3 (into our bed) up at 6 :( I am dead.

Here's a cup of tea and a big hug. :)

Oh god, WickedWitch, that's horrendous.

Best night for a while here , bed at 7.30, a couple of writhing yelling moments in her sleep, but no proper waking til 3.30. Rocked her back to sleep. 4.30 woke with nappy, clothes and grobag soaked (Asda nappies ) so had a full costume change. 6.30 woke squeaking, was fooled by her music box and slept til 7.30.

Co-sleeping's not an option for us, she's hated lying down beside us since the very beginning!

Same here, sleep was pretty good until 5 and a half months then went totally batshit insane. A month later he is back to just one night waking and then a 7 am wake-up, although we still have the odd bad night. Itsaphaseitsaphaseitsaphase...