Aargh! DS is 6 months next week. There have been 2 occasions so far that he has slept for more than 7 hours in a row. There have been less than 10 occasions when he has slept for more than 5 hours and these have been mainly after vaccinations.
Does anyone else have a 6 month old that doesn't sleep a long spell at night?
He is still in the room with me in his cot (DP is in the spare room in order to get some sleep). DS is EBF but we have been BLW for a few weeks and he now gets two 'meals' a day, but it's BLW so kind of hard to tell how much he's getting. He doesn't take a bottle.
Last night we put him to bed and he slept for 3 hours 20 minutes. He then woke and I fed him. I put him down in bed awake and he fell asleep. He slept for 3 hours and 20 minutes. Again, I fed him and put him down awake. He slept for 3 hours and 20 minutes. He then woke and I fed him.... Surely hunger can't be this regular?
His last feed of the 'day' starts at 7pm, he goes to sleep at about 7:30-7:45 then his first feed of the night is usually anytime between 10:30pm and midnight, but he once went until 12:30am. If his feed is around 11, he usually wakes between 3am and 4am for another feed. He goes back down very easily after night feeds and sometimes takes lots of milk, but sometimes (especially in recent weeks) is a bit less interested than during the day.
When he wakes at night I usually ignore him to see what happens. He has a toy rabbit and if he's dropped this on the floor I give it back. He often goes back to sleep and I only feed him if either he cries and won't re-settle or if it's been more than 4 hours since his last feed.
I cannot continue to function only getting sleep in 3 hour slots. All the other local baby mums seem to have babies who sleep 11 hours at night and have issues with naps instead. I think I'd swap the naps for good night sleep. Most days he has 3 naps of 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. But how much naps he has does not seem to correspond to how much night sleep he has. Or there's no pattern I can see.