My baby waking up more than 4 times a night for the past 6 months

[Aneke01]

I am new on mumsnet so if this topic has been discuss then please forgive me. I have a 6 months old girl. At 3 and 4 months she was waking up 8-9 times a night. At 5 & 6 months she is waking up 4 times a night. She goes to bed at 19:00 and then she wakes up at 05:00. During the day I try putting her down 3 times a day but she rarely sleeps more than 40 min. She also don't sleep 3 times a day. Otherwise she is good and healthy. I on the other hand is exhausted and all out of ideas. Dad is helping as much as he can (especially over weekends) but needs to work so he can also just do so much. We don't have the support of family and our friends also have little ones. What can I do to help me cope because it feels to me that I am negleting my little one because although I do stimulate her, I feel I could be stimulating her much more if I just had the energy.

Hi Aneke. Have you tried cosleeping? If that’s not for you can you grab some early nights to get through the worst of it? For example what is babies Longest sleep stretch? My little ones longest is 7-12 so I try to maximise sleep in that time x

I'm going to suggest the opposite to crazylady if you ARE already cosleeping.....own room😂

I've found that cosleeping is great until it isn't, usually by 7 months suddenly you and DH if he's there disturb your suddenly more alert baby in a way you didn't before and moving them out to their own quiet room makes them sleep through suddenly compared to 4-6 times waking. That's what's happened with all 3 of mine.

If you are sleeping in separate rooms already then maybe a short patch of cosleeping might help get you to the next stage. Worth trying.

Dear Both,

Thank you for your feedback. She has been sleeping in her own room from the beginning so I will try co-sleeping and see how that goes. Unfortunately she doesn't have much of a long stretch. She wakes up at 09:30, 11:30, 01:00 and 03:00. Then when she wakes up at 05:00 she is awake and no matter what I do, she doesn't settle down again so we start our day then.

It will get better. The longest stretch started happening at 9 months for me and my daughter even slept through the other night, which has never happened! It hadn’t happened again but I got loads of decent rest! Hang in there x