Please help with my 6 month old

[edwardrocks]

Hi everyone. I've only posted on here a couple of times before,but I am desperate for some advice. This is my second child- first one slept through by 4 months without too many probs. Ds seems to have no pattern at night. He goes down about 7 and we feed him between 10 and 11. He then wakes up at least twice, could be at 12, 2, 4. I feed him because he will go back to sleep and I don't want to wake dd. He then gets up for the day at 5.30. He is mostly ff now but I am still bf during the night. He has a dummy but doesn't seem that interested in it at night.
I feel like I am totally clueless about what to do with him and I'm starting to really struggle with the early starts.

My 6 month old is similar, wake up is getting earlier and earlier....I'm assured it is a phase! :-(

Do you have a partner you could rope in for a few nights to alternate with you so if you have already fed at 11 and he wakes at 2, partner goes in and comforts/settles? Next time he wakes you feed him?

Just thinking he associates you with milk and may not so much with someone else. At 6 months he should cope with 5 or 6 hours between feeds at night.

Thanks everyone. I think we are going to give him a bottle in the night from now so that dh can give it to him on one of the wakings. If we don't feed him it is really hard t settle him, he wakes up and wants to play. HV said he's just one of those babies who doesn't need much sleep. I must try to go to bed earlier and leave dh to do the 11 feed.

Come and join us over here - loads of us going through similar things. You'll get lots of sympathy!