sleep regression/teething/being a PITA whatever it is. ..Help me!

[MostlyCake]

6 month old gone from sleeping through to waking several times a night. Struggling to get him to nap during the day but trying to instil a routine.

when he wakes at night he just makes s constant whiney noise until i pick him up then falls asleep on the boob after only a 30 second 'feed'. He's not hungry just can't self settle.

If I leave him and just shush him he winds himself up until he's properly awake. This 30 second suck is dreadful and I'm so tired. How can I stop it?

The other times he wakes can either be a good feed or a comfort suck. It's driving me mad! I wouldn't mind if it was a proper feed but this inability to self settle is driving me round the twist and I'm so tired.

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Same here with my 4 month old so sympathies! (Though mine hasn't mastered the sleeping through ever) Haven't worked out how to resolve it yet though I'm afraid. Mine will frantically rub his eyes as he's tired and wants to go back to sleep but doesn't know how, a quick go on the boob works but i want to break this so I know I need to fix the self settling thing. Hopefully others may be able to help...

My ds has just started waking and making a sort of growly groany noise or a whine sometimes- at the same time as dribbling and chewing a lot more so I'm hoping it is just teething for a couple of weeks.

hay, I'm going through the same thing atm my baby boy nearly 8 months has started to wake up through the night wanting a bottle or just a cuddle but hes slept through the night since he was 8 weeks so not sure if its to do with teething just hoping it sorts itself out soon

I could have written your post OP!

DS is 6 months old next week, in the last month he's gone from regular 5-6 hour night stretches to maximum 3 hours, often less.

When he wakes he does a grizzly whingey cry. He's not hungry (maybe once a night) and does the ridiculous fall asleep on boob after 2 minutes routine.

He used to self settle but doesn't any more. It's killing me! I do think we're due for first teeth very soon and I pray they turn up fast and everything goes back to normal after.

Have been trying to start NCSS methods but I'm simply too knackered to follow through.

I'm being useless here but offering sympathy and watching for inspiration!

Ooooh, I hope I can help with this one! I didn't sleep for more than 2 hours from when the baby came home until she was about 9 1/2 months old. She's started to get a bit better now, and I think it's because she CAN self settle, we spent ages working on it.

Am trying to think back...the gist is that you put them down Practically asleep and hopefully they will then doze off. That said, I seem to remember in practice that there was a lot of pickup/put down, tummy rubbing, walking, singing and just being there whilst she screamed...Tbh I think a LOT of it was just sitting there with her whilst she worked through the strop.
We'd check to make sure she didn't need food or a change, and then...yeah there wasn't anything she needed. I think it sort of 'helped' that I was so tired and stressed out that there was nothing else I could do because I was scared that if I picked her up I might inadvertently hurt her.

I do also totally sympathise that it's damn hard to deal with this stuff when you're shattered, and I do still let her sleep on me during the day as I just can't be bothered!

But it has worked ok for us (now!). I didn't feel too bad when she cried as I was there with her and I couldn't see anything else I could do! :o

Glad I'm not the only one with this problem -6 month old DD has gone in the last two weeks from angel baby sleepin through the night every night, to waking up every hour or two - it is killing me. Thought it was due to her having chicken pox but the pox has gone and the night waking continues! Debating whether to move her out of our room and just let her cry a bit. Clearly she doesn't need feeding in the night as had been sleeping through for months before, but now I have to feed her every waking and not always just brief suck either!

Same here! 6 month old dd is driving me crazy. Teething, twisting, not sleeping etc.

Think its teething....dh took him for an hour and 3/4 walk and he was fine on the way out but then screamed all the way home no matter what him dud yo calm him....Both very frazzled when they got home.

He's been up and down now 3x and us knackered but won't sleep!!! Shushing, patting, boob....nothing is working.

Have bought the no cry nap solution but am too tired to read it!! Trying to get him to nap more during the day but so far that isn't working either unless he's in the pram or the car...not a good long term solution....

Grr! Autocorrect.....

what he did to not what him dud yo!

Mostlycake naps make a huge difference here - generally speaking, anyway.

I got the no cry sleep solution the other day and slowly working on a new settling regime through the night plus breaking the suck-to-sleep association. Was thinking of getting the nap one too - good luck and do shout if it's any good!