6 month old sleep patterns

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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?

Please can i join too? DD slept through from 6-19 weeks and I thought she was a charmed baby. now dealing with anywhere from 5 to 2 (if a good night) wake-ups, she is EBF at 24 weeks. She feeds to sleep and won't nap in the house. EVER.

Haven't done it yet moomie, not sure if I really understand what it entails, so need to do a bit of reading up. I'm also worried about the neighbours!

Sorry overtired got you confused with theresapotato - I'll blame it on the lack of sleep

I've just been leaving her to be honest because when I did go in it seemed to aggravate her.
I think the cc is working, last night DD went down at 7.30, woke at 12 and whimpered on and off for an hour (kept dropping off for 10 mins waking up etc), slept til 6 then I fed her and she carried on sleeping until 8. A vast improvement from waking up every hour or so!
I still feel so exhausted though.

unfortunateusername, that must be so har for you with the wakings being so long.:(

overtired cc is not something that makes you feel good, although the longest DD has cried for was 25 mins so not as bad as some peoples experiences.

Thanks potato, may give it a go if we get truly desperate. Like your LO I think DD would just go batshit if we kept going in and out.

However, last night's Sleep Experimentation Centre (aka our back bedroom) produced the following encouraging results:

7pm into travel cot on tum with heating up and calpol in (teeth, rather than random doping, honest).

5.25am Mummy inexplicably wakes

5.30am DD wakes with wind, is inconsolable until drinking a bottle at lightning speed

6.00am DD back to sleep

7.10am DD up for the day

I was coming on to post about how our sleep experiment was a bit of a successful, but now I see overtired's post and I'm all like

Slept in the living room last night and left DS in our room by himself, he slept 7 til 3, had a mega feed and then went 3.30 til 6.30...

Will repeat tonight to see if it happens again. Unfortunately I did have random wakings so am not as refreshed as would like...

HotGiggity, that's why our DD was banished to her own room WAY before 6 months, we were waking her and she was waking us with lots of squeaking, grunting and general arsing about.

Do you have enough rooms for him to be in a room by himself? 7 til 3 and 3.30 til 6.30 is bloomin good, well done Giggity Jnr!

Right PITA isn't it, to wake when your baby doesn't?

overtired and hotgiggity very of you both.

Bed at 7. Feed at 10.30. Then up at 11, 1.15, 3.45 (for a feed), 4.45 then up for the day at 6.15.

Feel shocking this morning but at least it's Sunday!

We're in a 1 bed at the mo, hoping to sell soon.

In the meanwhile we're hoping the in laws will help us with a sofa bed rather than us having to sleep on a blow up (it would be useful to have anyway as people often come and stay over, which is crazy in a 1 bed with a baby).

I hope that it helps having seperate rooms. I don't mind sleeping in the front room if it means actually getting some sleep.

hotgiggity, overtired and potato so pleased that you guys seem to be making progress.

I tried swaddling dd last night once she was asleep! (She'd throw one hell of a tantrum if I tried it when she was awake!)

It did seem to help her a little bit not to stir so much once I put her back in her cot. Still had an hour waking at around half three and then one or two wee wakings round about 5:30. Wee monkey slept in til 9:45 after settling back to sleep though.

moomiemoo, I've had nights like that too . It's just so draining, isn't it? Hope you manage to have a better night tonight.

Think tonight we're going to try the whole Pantely Pulloff approach to bedtime. Wish me luck!

:(

She only woke up once last night . And no feeds during the night, I feel like the hard work is paying off.

Sorry you had such an awful night moomiemoo these 6 month olds are such trouble! Is anyone finding them more challenging during the day aswell? My DD is so keen to move she gets frustrated very easily and also bored very easily.

That's funny you say that about moving rooms and less wakings. I was planning on keeping DD in the room with me but may be worth thinking about.

unfortunateusername Whats this Pantely Pulloff you speak of?

Potato, it's where you try to get them to go to sleep without a bf by bfing until they are just comfort sucking but not fully asleep (light fluttery sucks rather than deep drinking ones) then take them off and try to gently close their mouth with your finger. If they protest too much, put them back on and repeat until eventually (in theory!) they fall asleep without it.

It's meant to be a gentle approach to weaning them off dummies, bfing to sleep etc. I read about it in the No-Cry Sleep Solution.

Oh okay, I'm glad somebodies explained it to me. I've seen it mentioned before but was too shy to ask.
For some reason I can't imagine my DD having ANY of that.

Agh - me too, can I join? DS 6.75 mo, angel baby until now, clockwork 10:30/3/6:30 waker has suddenly gone for full-on wailing several times a night that is only assuaged by coming into our bed to sleep (which means we don't) and/or being fed.

I'm pretty sure he's hungry, but he's also on 3 solid meals a day now plus still all his breastfeeds. Can he really be that hungry overnight?

feeling rather tired. . .

We're having some success with the hippy methods here - reki and rescue remedy before bed! 7-7 last night, with wakings at 10.30 and 4.30 only!

Can you give Rescue Remedy to babies?

Last night went pretty well for us. DD decided she didn't want to bf to sleep anyway so didn't have to do the pantley pulloff method. She quite happily went to sleep in her cot, swaddled with her mobile on. Not a peep til 5:00am! Took about 5 minutes to get her back to sleep then that was her until 8!

Not sure where that leaves us for tonight though. Can't see her doing the same again. Oh well, at least I've had a better nights sleep.

Zimm What's reki and rescue remedy?

Experiment failed -

Went down at 8
Feed at 2am
Screaming at 3.30
Screaming at 4.30
Screaming at 5.30
In with us at 6.30
Fell asleep in front of Peppa Pig (I'm a bad mummy) at about 8 til 9.30

However I did take a look in his mouth and I'm sure I can see his second bottom tooth coming through so maybe thats it? Otherwise I have no idea...

HotGiggity

You must be shattered today. Hope it goes better tonight.

Can't get him to take another nap now either...have given him some calpol so he seems a little happier...

Yes, we're on the second bottom tooth. Perhaps we could trick them by getting them fitted for a full set of dentures.

I do feel sorry for him, but I feel sorry for myself too...

Don't think dentures would work...

Hello
I'd like to join please!! ds2 is not yet 6 months (5 months and a week) but I need to moan about his sleeping. He was a better sleeper at 10 weeks old than he is now, was sometimes going 8pm to 1am without a feed. Then about 3 weeks before Christmas it went haywire and now it's terrible. Last night he went down at 8pm, up at 10.30 for a feed (he's bf), up at 12.10am and then awake until 3.30am when I put him in his swing, woke at 5.20am needing a feed then back down until 7am. And that's pretty typical...I am so tired my head pounds every day and everything sways.
DS1 was appalling as well, only slept through consistently from 18months old (is now 2.7). I'm shattered and too tired to even think about how to deal with it :(

My DD slept the whole night through. 8.30-7. That's a 2011 first!