Everyone talks about how much easier things get at 6 months and in a way I have found that with DS, he is far more cheerful generally & has such a cute cheeky little personality now which just lights me up.
But in a lot of other ways things have got worse - especially sleep. We definitely had a 4 month sleep regression but that only really impacted night sleep. Is there a 6 month regression though? Because for the last 3 weeks sleep has become a major battle during the day & at night.
We've gone from sleeping 8 hour stretches at 3 months to 5-6 hours at 4 months & now waking every 2 hours all night long.
And getting him to nap is so hard - he fights sleep & if he does give in, wakes after 20-30 mins. So I think he's probably majorly sleep deprived by nighttime (having had maybe 1-1.5 hours of daytime sleep).
Other info:
He is ebf. We did start solids a couple of days before sleep went haywire. That's going very slowly so he's probably only getting a spoon or two of solids per day.
He's never done the going to sleep drowsy but awake thing. He used to feed to sleep but when he stopped doing that during the day at about 3 months we eventually introduced a dummy as otherwise he'd cry himself to sleep (in our arms being rocked or walked in sling). He still needs to fall asleep with me lying next to him though as can't do it himself with the dummy.
He goes to sleep lying with me on bed & then I transfer to cot next to bed. Given he's awake so much at night now we co-sleep after the first wake up (safely). He generally feeds back to sleep at night (about 2-3 night feeds) and then needs dummy when he wakes from about 5am onwards.
Are we doing something glaringly wrong? Is this normal at 6 months? Because every book goes on about how babies should be consolidating sleep at this point 
So sorry this is a huge essay, but I need to get it off my chest and hoping someone has some advice!
Any help appreciated!