Help!

[Megan2017]

My 6 month old used to be a really good sleeper, she used to sleep from about half 7, has a feed at 11 & then used to sleep till 7 in the morning,
Recently she's refusing to sleep in the day longer than 20 minutes, she'll still have her feed at 7pm , go to sleep at half 7 then have her bottle at 11pm, then she'll wake up around 2-3ish & not settle back off for longer than half an hour, but is not hungry as she won't take her bottle till about 6am.
She has her teething powder after her last bottle , as she seems like she's teething, but I've tried everything to try & get her to sleep through the night & nothing's working.

Loads of stuff going on at this age, it will sort itself out although it is exhausting I feel for you!

Daytime naps less than 20 minutes are likely to be due to over tiredness. Baby isn't really getting into a proper sleep in that amount of time, so anything and everything is waking her up without any restorative rest.

The daytime is then going to have a knock-on effect and give disrupted nights due to over tiredness. And over tired baby is often harder to get to sleep and then restless and wakes easily once asleep.

It's daytime sleep you need to tackle primarily and this needs you to figure out why baby is not staying asleep longer.

In the me an time while trying to help baby sleep longer, make your daytime naps very frequent. Then at least baby gets as much sleep as possible - say 60 to 90 minutes between one nap and the next.

To tackle the naps try to get baby to go to sleep where she will stay asleep, rather than getting her to sleep in your arms and putting down already asleep. This is most easily done with naps in something that can maintain perpetual movement. I favour foot bouncing the bouncy chair for this. Continuously and relentlessly throughout the nap (until baby is out of the over tiredness cycle). Other options are pushchair pushing out and about or in the kitchen, car journey or sling.

A dummy may also help with these daytime naps.

Thankyou for your reply! I shall try & conquer the daytime naps today😊