5/6 month olds.

[CarlyRose80]

Hi please tell me what your baby sleeps day and night on average and when as my LO is all over the place the last few weeks and I don't know what I should be doing.
Thanks:-(

My DS3 is 27 weeks but between 15 and 25 weeks we went through some very erratic sleeping ranging from one to seven wake ups per night and nap times of ten minutes to two hours. Completely unpredictable from day to day. Over the last couple of weeks he has settled down to sleeping from 7ish p.m. to 5:30 a.m. (possibly due to the light mornings) with wake ups for feeds at 10:30 and 3-4. In the day he sleeps after breakfast, around lunchtime and sometimes naps in the late afternoon. I tend to just go with the flow but I think he would be amenable to a routine if I felt that was necessary. Hope this answers your question.

How many hours do he have?
Mine would have 2 hours in the morning. 1.5 at lunch and an hour at tea but everyone tells me this is to much but when I wake him earlier he's just grumpy and cries. What do I do as he does need to Inprove at night as he's awake a lot and now starting to get up early again. I'm so desperate for help and advice now. X

I don't think you should wake him when he's sleeping. If you're having problems with night time sleep then a routine might help. Pick something that works with your schedule. I was having problems with DS3 feeding too much at night so now I give him a dream feed at 10:30 but won't feed him again until at least 3 a.m. he only gets the dummy before that. Then I do feed at 7, sleep at 8.30, feed at 10.30, sleep at 11, feed at 2, another sleep at 4 if needed, feed at 5, bedtime at 7-8, dream feed at 10:30. The times aren't fixed but I try and keep his naps at similar times every day so that he's naturally sleepy around then.

Hi carly. I'm going through a similar thing at the moment with my LO. We had a brilliant routine from 3-4 months (sleeping 8pm-5.30am and naps in her bed during the day). BUT since around 5 months it's gone completely out the window. She's nearly 6 months and there's still no sign of improvement.
A typical day for us would be:

7.30 am get up
10am go for a walk (sleeps in pushchair around 30mns)
2pm another walk
7.30 pm goes to bed
Wakes up every couple of hours after that

I am fecking tired! She will only nap on the boob or in the pushchair. If I put her in her bed in the day she starts crying immediately.

Hoping its just a phase!!!
The way I see it is they have so much going on at the moment; growth spurts, developmental leaps, teething etc that it's bound to mess things up for a bit. I hope it gets better soon. I feel your pain!

It is painful. Last night was better. 7.45 to 5.30 with one wake up but I woke up so many times as that's what in used to lol. Hope I can train myself to sleep again. Don't know if its a one of but hoping for the same tonight although he's barley napper all day 1.5 hr in total so went to bed at 7 completely over tired and shattered so who knows, he didn't even drink he bed time bottle he was too tired to. It's never the same each day is it??!!!

Sorry for typo error. Bloody predictive text!

yeah, it's a nightmare. Even when she sleeps I wake up expecting her to wake.
Fingers crossed for tonight!
It's a good thing they're cute!

Another success last night 7-6 with one wake up for a feed at 4am yay :-)

Great news! I'm not jealous, honest!

Not so good last night but we had a bad day also so I was expecting to be up a few times. He's been grumpy boy today also and it's taken me over an hour to get him to sleep. 4.30 nap has now become 6pm nap!!! Times all out today!

My 5m DS has had disturbed sleep since about 2m, just now (last few days only) his schedule is sort of..

7:30 wake up for the day
9:00-11:00 nap
14:00-16:00 nap
19:00 bed
Wake ups at 20:00, 21:00, 22:00, 00:00, 02:00, 04:00, 05:00, 06:00.

He's always slept lots during the day, and I've never seen much difference in his night sleeping when he has lots of day naps or just a few. His behaviour is just much worse with less sleep. We've had days with as little as 45mins total sleep, and days with 6 hours of napping.

He only sleeps as long as he does during the day because I'm holding him. If I put him down to sleep we'll usually get about 20-45 mins each nap, and more maps through the day (used to be feed/sleep every 90mins).

Bad nights he wakes every 45-90 mins through the night, past few months a good night has one 3 hour stretch of sleep. Best nights ever were around 2 months old when he'd go about 5 hours.

Could be teeth? My DS is 6mo and got his first two teeth at 5mo...for the 2 weeks leading up to the teeth appearing he was a nightmare: refusing to nap in the day excep in my arms, waking frequently in the early hours (4am-6am ish), needing to be cuddled back to sleep in the night when he normally goes back off easily with his dummy.

I was literally at my wits end, sure I wa doing something wrong and then one day I noticed two little teeth appearing! From then on I have calpol or baby nurofen whenever he seemed upset (especially in the night) and things seemed to get much better. At the height of the teething I was giving him calpol twice a day for several days in a row but it was the only way to get through it...just a thought, might be the case with your LO too? Especially if there's lots of dribbling and fist chewing going on...