Care to share your 6 month olds day?

[Suchanamateur]

I know all babies are different but am utterly confused about my 6mo DDs timings. She wakes up at different times every day and is been following a kind of put her down about an hr and three quarters after she last woke rule and mainly that was going ok. But in the last week or so, it all seems to be changing, and shes crying when I'm doing her nap routine but then over excited yippy when in her cot, and taking ages to settle.

She can self settle and does a mix of 1.5 hr and 40 min naps- the longest usually in middle of day. Bed times are usually fairly early 6-6.30ish as she any last longer. And now I've got to fit food in around this?!! And her brother's 2.5 yo mayhem..

What are yr 6 month olds up to? Are they all clockwork babies or completely random...?

Just out of interest, have you recently started weaning Such?

I have 6 mo twins so I try my best to be as routine-orientated as possible but they appear to both be completely random. One will have a long nap in the morning and not sleep again until 6ish (getting very grumpy in the meantime) and the other sleeps randomly for a few mins at at time roughly every hour.

Sorry that's probably not much help but I think 6 months may be too early to be 'predictable.' Especially if they have a wee nap in the buggy or the car at a different time from usual it throws the whole day out. Once they are crawling babies tend to wear themselves out more and be more 'textbook.' Good luck!

Hi, my dd is 7 mo and at 6mo her routine went a bit like this:

6.30/7 am wake up, breastfeed
8am, breakfast
9 - 10am Nap
10.30am breastfeed
11am lunch
12.15/12.30pm - 2/2.30pm Nap, breastfeed whenever she woke up
4.30-5pm nap (usually have to force her to have a sleep so i go out for a walk, she's so grumpy if she doesnt have a little sleep around this time and she's always in bed by 6.30!)
5pm tea
5.45pm quick bath
6pm breastfeed
6.15/6.30pm bed
(then up 10pm, 4am for feeds, which i want to wean her off!!)

I started weaning around 5.5 mo and she has a mixture of spoon fed things and finger foods and she picked the whole eating thing up very quickly; she sometimes out-eats her cousin who is 3 months older!

The routine wasnt like this everyday as she sometimes has off days due to teeething/busy days out etc but generally this seemed to work pretty well and is pretty similar now but she's already dropped her 10.30am breastfeed, I just couldnt get her to take anything so gave up trying on this one. I wish she would drink more during the day but she's so bloody nosy!

Jilted- I have. Just started giving her finger foods this week.

Unfortunately DD will not sleep in buggy or car - sigh - so have the joys of cot battles for all sleeps.

matilda - interesting that you have such a short time between end of last nap and bed. This is one we've always struggled with and I'd assumed that DD could do her longest awake time at this stretch, but perhaps I should be putting her down much earlier? So more like 1.5 hrs, rather than 2?

She has always needed the last nap, even 15 minutes is better than nothing! I'm managing to get bedtime later (gradually!!) she can now make it to about 6.45pm but at 5 mo she was only making it to about 6pm, even with the nap! I tried cutting out the last nap when i introduced tea but she was too tired to eat and she'd just throw her food around in a paddy so I tend to take her out for a walk if I'm at home to get her to sleep for a bit. If we're out all afternoon she doesn't have a nap as there's too much going on but she'll sleep in the car or pram on the way home, even if this ends up being 6 ish she still goes to bed at the same time! She is very active though, she started crawling 3 weeks ago and quickly started to pull herself up to stand so I think she wears herself out. She settles really well for her morning and lunchtime naps unless I get the timings wrong but even then she cries for about 5 minutes and then settles herself so she's pretty good really!

When she was very young I used to really struggle with getting her to sleep and looking back it was always due to overtiredness as it's really hard to tell she's tired- I think I've only seen her yawn 2 or 3 times in her whole life!

Hi, DD is 6 months in 2 weeks.

8.15/8.30ish up, BF, bath etc

Routine for each awake period= wake up, nappy change, BF, play. Sometimes mini BF an hour later in the middle of her awake time. Then nappy change, BF, nap.

Put down for naps after being awake for approx 2 hrs-2.5 hrs
(still experimenting here as she's suddenly going longer awake, but sometimes it's too long & we don't realise until she has an overtired screaming fit, oops)

Naps vary - usually 2x short 45 mins-1 hr + 1x long 2-3 hr.
However she changes the order around day to day! Usually short-long-short. Bad day=4-5x short...

Aim for sleeping at 8.15pm, sometimes she won't sleep though or wakes at 9.30pm for a bit.

Wakes through night currently every 2-3 hours (this is a big improvement, after the 4-month-sleep-regression & given that she's currently teething!)

Interesting reading other routines

Grrr. Just impossible to settle at bedtime again. And using the same timings as worked a few days ago. Undertired? Overtired? No idea .

I'd stop the weaning and start again in a couple of weeks. It could just be that her digestive system can't cope yet. At least if you stop, and she still remains the same, you will have elimated one thing .

Thanks JJJ- I've stopped for the moment. 2 hours to settle for bed last night and having to pat to sleep for all naps- when just a week or so ago she was self settling. She's now completely overtired because of late nights, and I've just lost all my confidence with it. Ugh.

Can teething or developmental stuff disrupt sleep like this? She's not crying just yipping and squeaking and rolling in her cot. It's like she can't switch off at all.

Yes, both can disrupt sleep but I think it could be a combination of the 6 month growth spurt/developmental leap and weaning.

Eldeat wakes up at 7.00 and then wakes up youngest (grr) for a cuddle. We read in bed for half hour whilst baby has a feed!

7.30-8.00: DS rolls around on his playmat/has a swing and is entertained by eldest.

8.00-8.45: Youngest has a little snooze

9.00: Both have breakfast, youngest 'eats' cut up pieces of apple and a mix of pureed fruit or porridge which i spoonfeed.

9.30-10.00: clear up and put away whilst baby 'plays'

10.30-Bath both boys, dress them.

11.00- Baby wants another bottle so give him that and head off out in the pram

Asks for a bottle around 2.30pm (stays awake from around 4-8pm)

6.00: Has Dinner (pureed vegetables)

7.30 Book and baby massage

8.00 Baby snuggle in for the night with a bottle and is usually sound asleep until his feed at 2am!