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Whats wrong with my baby?

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DazedDazzledandConfused · 05/02/2012 05:46

My 6 month old wont sleep. He went down at 6.30pm he woke at 11.30pm took till 3am to get him back to sleep and then he woke up again at 4am.
He's gone off solids too.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, we have a good consistant night time routine, bath, moisturise and feed. He'll go down fine wake up have a feed then he woke setttle in his cot after.

Feel like I'm only one whose baby doesn't sleep well. I don't mind him not sleeping through the night I just want him to go back to sleep after.
At 2am this morning he was feeding and lookng at Daddy and wide awake.

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RillaBlythe · 07/02/2012 07:54

Sent sleep? Didn't sleep.

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DazedDazzledandConfused · 07/02/2012 08:16

I think it'd be easier to except he was a poor sleeper if he'd never slept. But he used to sleep and only wake up once in the night.

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ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 07/02/2012 09:47

I can assure you it's no better if he's never slept properly, I can occasionally be found rocking in a corner muttering "no more than three hours sleep in a row for six months, no more than three hours sleep in a row for six months..."

forcedinsomnia · 07/02/2012 09:50

We're pretty much the same here with ds...6mo.Sad He wakes anywhere between 2 and 5 times a night and generally only has short naps in the day. I think there is deffinately a link between poor daytime sleep and nighttime wakings. Although I have never been able to instil a daytime routine on my ds and now I am on week 2 back at work. SadSad He will therefore be 'forced' into a routine with child care etc.....so we'll see how we go. I am at my wits end trying to decipher what I am doing wrong/right and why some nights are better than others even when I do nothing differently!!!!????? For now I am just going to ride with it and be thankful that dh takes turns in night wakings! I have been beaten by a 6 mo gorgeous little boy who makes the bags under my eyes all worth while with one crooked little gummy smile. Grin However if anyone comes up with a winning formula let me know ASAP.GrinGrin Good luck all.x

forcedinsomnia · 07/02/2012 09:54

Ps dazed I had a week of ds sleeping from 10 till 7 and thought I'd cracked it.....changed nothing and the next night 3 wakings and a 5 am start!! That week he sat up for the first time though?! MUM=DEFEATED......FACT.Grin

Emsmaman · 07/02/2012 11:22

Dazed I have some hope for you...DD also didn't take the bottle which has driven me batty at times and all the HV etc said well that doesn't matter as from 6mo they can take the sippy cup etc...well to DD sippy cup is a game and it ends up everywhere except in her mouth. At 9mo I decided to try the bottle again with a fast flowing teat (for contrast, at 4mo she would become hysterical at the sight of the bottle and take 2 hours to calm down) and now she takes it well. When she wants comfort it's all about the breastfeeding but it's good to know I/DH can also give her some formula. I've also now skipped past the sippy cup and give her drinks at meals straight from a small cup (can try an eggcup or a shot glass). Also with the night feeds/switching to daytime solids, I have been refusing night feeds between 12 and 6 from 9mo and it did correlate with an increase in solids intake, however I did read that babies only really "get" food around 9mo and before that they don't realise that it will make them feel full, so maybe this would have happened regardless of what I did. It didn't stop the waking though.

undergroundernie · 08/02/2012 13:24

I think he's 'not ready' for a routine of longer naps because he's only sleeping 45mins at a time. I know that i struggled for months trying to get my PFB to sleep longer than that and was convinced i was doing something wrong. But no, when he was ready he started to sleep longer. As did ds3 who I just left to it and didn't fight. By 9 months he may well be very different.

undergroundernie · 08/02/2012 13:29

Also, yes up the solids if he wants to eat it. That may well mean that by 9 months he'd be happy with a breast feed in the early morning, solids for lunch, a sippy cup of milk or a snack in the afternoon, solids for tea and breast milk when you return from work and bedtime.

undergroundernie · 08/02/2012 13:35

Oops sorry I missed the bit about not really getting solids yet. I would just say I think you're right - try not to worry and enjoy the rest of your maternity because in the next 2/3 months he will change a lot and things you can't imagine him doing yet may well just come by then. And if not, there is nothing you can do to change it yet - you can't make him eat or sleep can you - just put the right conditions there to facilitate it when he's ready.

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DazedDazzledandConfused · 09/02/2012 04:20

Over the past couple of days I've tried to not feed him in the night, he still wasn't interested in solids then the other night I fed him everytime he woke up, let him fall asleep on the breast and co sleep. He still woke 3 times but he ate really well in the daytime.

Idealy when I'm back at work I'd like him to wake around 4am for a big feed, then have milk from a sippy cup in the morning and afternoon and then when I get home I wouldn't mind if he spent the rest of the evening feeding.

It seems that solids make his night time sleeping worse. Also if he's not having his bedtime feed by 6pm his sleeping is worse.

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