Nearly six months and wakes every 90 minutes at night

[Strega76]

My wee one has been waking up every 90 minutes or so through the night for almost 7 weeks now and I feel as though I'm on the edge. He slept well to start with but hit the 4 month regression at about 17 weeks and now at nearly 25 weeks is no better.

He is breastfed, has just started on some veggie solids, naps twice during the day (either in buggy or lying down with me). He wont stay in his cot for more than 10 minutes at bedtime so for weeks Ive been going to bed with him in the evening at about 8pm to get him to sleep but also to try and catch up on my sleep. (co-sleeping not through choice) I feed (nurse) him back to sleep eac time he wakes because otherwise he'll work himself into a frenzy.

i have absolutely no life and feel increasingly hopeless.

On a good night i get about 3-4 hours sleep.

I just wanted to ask those of you who have had babies who woke so frequently at night, whether you waited until they grew out of it (when?) or did you try to teach them to settle themselves by sleep training? (not CIO - i couldnt do this).

Any thoughts?

Sounds obvious mammy but can you put her to bed a couple of hours earlier? So last bottle at 6pm then bed? Try it for a few nights and see how it goes. Sounds like she's a bit overtired which is why its taking so long for her to go down. How are her day naps?

hiya i'm having the same with my dd who is 6 mths, had three weeks of hell on earth with me being a crying zombie lol. She is ebf but last night i tried her with 2 ounces of formula after her dinner at six she then went down at just before eight only woke twice quick top up and straight back down she then slept till half seven!!! Hopefully it wasn't a one off (please no). I also crushed a baby hipp organic biscuit with a bit of formula an gave that to her at half three yesterday afternoon as a snack.

Thanks Iggly I will try it as the one time I did manage to get her to sleep earlier this week she did drop off around 7.30pm (although she woke again at 11pm for an hour). Her day time naps are also pretty bad. The last two days she has been waking about 8.30-ish and then napping from 11-1.30 - does this sound about right or should I try for more?
Thanks

DS had three 45 mins naps and dropped the third at 9 months. We'd put him down for a nap about 90 mins after he woke, then after two hours is being awake another nap then third one again after two hours. If he didn't get enough naps his night sleep would be bad!

Maybe you could get an extra short nap in at around half 3/4 ish?

Fingers crossed pickle! DS had a massive growth spurt around 6 months but he also started sleeping better too - he was napping in the day and sleeping on his front at night which he liked.

Re: babies not wanting to sleep til late, how about biting the bullet and waking them at the same time each morning? I know some people say not to wake a sleeping baby, but it was the only thing that helped us establish the same bedtime and approx naptimes. We went for 7am (which is too early on a weekend but we have to get up and ready for work etc during the week)... no guarantees your little one won't start waking at 5am inexplicably tho

I read somewhere that this heps to set their internal clocks or something..