Advice on night time sleeping

[Ladyr12]

My little one is 5 and half months old and is a big baby. We weaned earlier as formula wasn't filling him up. We have a regular bedtime routine and recently changed from 4 bottles to 5 during the day. He is normally asleep around 7pm and for the last few nights has been awaking at 9pm not normally for a feed but crying whilst asleep. He doesn't normally settle (tried ambersol, dummy etc and nothing works) and have to try and feed him again and takes very little. He also wants to roll I think but is struggling to do this. He then wakes every 3 hours - crying whilst sleeping. I even took him to the doctors to do a urine sample and check that all is fine which I am sure that everything is. Has anyone had any experience of this and how did you stop them waking up at 9pm and in the night ?

Thanks
Ruth

Sounds like you could be in the 6 month sleep regression. My DD is 9 and a half months, and we're just coming out of the 9 month sleep regression (I hope!). The 6 month one wasn't too bad here from what I can remember but each baby is different (the 9 month one has been awful for us).

My advice is to just do whatever you can to get him to sleep. I bf DD each time she woke, which usually worked to get her back to sleep but not always. We had some nights where she was awake for a couple of hours in the early morning and I just tried to keep her happy rather than battling with her to get back to sleep.

And remember that it's a phase that will pass!

Oh, sounds like me...see my post ( help with
Night time sleep for 6m old..) didn't realise
there was a 6m regression as well as the
4 and 9 month?! Do these babies ever sleep?!

Have a look at wake to sleep, it might help for the habit of 9 pm waking. New skills and teeth can be to blame attthis age.

teething I would guess... or the rolling. have you tried nurofen?