Do babies generally start sleeping better when they move onto solids?

[savebraveted]

Yes, I know there will be exceptions, but as a general rule? I am currently weaning ds - he is 1 week off 6 months so at the moment we are only on a couple of spoonfuls at lunchtime. He is a dire sleeper - wakes a lot during the night and will take one or two bf and the rest of the time I just offer a cuddle or some water. I was hoping that offering him water might stop him waking up but no such luck!
Once he is on a good breakfast and lunch, I really hope that he will wake less in the night - and might be time for some night weaning?

No, got worse because he was constipated. Sorry.

Babies are all very different. There's a big growth spurt at 6 months so I wouldn't bank on seeing an immediate improvement.

That said, things may well gradually start getting better because they naturally will as he gets older.

My big "breakthrough" with ds's sleeping was walking. He now tires himself out enough to sleep 2 hours in the middle of the day and 12ish hours at night although does often wake for a nappy change, but that's cos he's a bit of a fussy one!

Keep the faith, you will eventually get some sleep

um. mine only started sleeping through when they dropped the daytime nap

Yes and no.

Definitely not immediately, and not without sleep training.

However after about a month and a half on solids (so at 7.5 months), she was eating so much that I was certain she didn't need her night time BF.

So I did CC. It took one night of about 30 min crying and one night of about 5 min crying and then she no longer needed night feeds after that. (However she still wakes up any time she gets ill or is teething - but that's a different issue).

So I'd say - solids don't help by themselves, but they might get you into a position where you feel comfortable doing sleep training. Assuming you are ok with sleep training.

I've started weaning DS at 5.5 months and he is now 7 months and he won't take that much solid food although I do try and stick to 3 'meals' a day. He will scream in his high chair until I give up and give him the breast! I'm sure he would much rather have milk than solids, and if it was up to me I would carry on breast feeding him for the long term, but at some point he has to be weaned off it. The health visitor has said that he should be going for 3 and preferably 4 hours between milk feeds and that I should offer snacks in between feeds. First day today and he was bf'ing every 1-2 hours so no joy! I can't bear the screaming when he wants to nurse.
Re. sleeping, he wakes every 1-2 hours every night and I have spent the last 3 months trying to get him to stay in his cot at the side of our bed. I couldn't stand the lack of sleep any longer so have took him back into our bed which is where he started off when he was born!
The women at our local breast feeding support group say that if he isn't ready to go into a cot, then he shouldn't be forced! But then when will he be ready? when he is 10, 12, etc??
So anyway, sorry I have hijacked this topic. I wish you luck going forward
Sue xx