What is your sleep routine for 6 mo? Some real life (working) examples please!

[Jellybabie3]

I have seen so many variations online but would love to know what others (in RL) on here do. Currently DS is in our room with us but will move to his nursery this week as we think that it's us keeping him awake (he wakes 3-5 times a night). Hes just learned to self settle.

He was waking at 7.30am but thanks to the clock change hes waking 8.30 - 9am. I would like to change this back.

He goes to bed 7 - 8pm depending on last nap.

He was having 3x naps but has been struggling with long naps (no longer napping on me) although we are working on this. My gut tells me he would be ready to drop to 2 x naps if we can stretch out the naps.

Thanks!

Hey jellybabies sorry fir the hijack but any self settling tips? Still can't get mine to self soothe or nap :(

@GinUnicorn hate to say it but I think DS was just "ready". I just felt he wanted a change and lo and behold he did it. He napped on me all the time and fed to sleep. Then one day he grizzled and stopped feeding to sleep for naps. At night I did pantley pull off for weeks then transferred him after he nodded off on my bed. He wouldnt be lowered into bed at all. Again one night he just sort of grizzled so i tried putting him down and he rolled over and zonked! Ive been doing the same ever since in a loose pick up put down way but never to the extent he cries full blown, just grizzles. I do everything for naps we do at night so dark room, white noise, sleeping bag. I just say 'sleepy time' and keep putting him down until he closes his eyes and nods off in bed. Yesterday I was putting him in his sleeping bag and he was asleep by the time i put one leg in!! Hes all grown up 😢

I just need to figure the timings as I think i put him down too soon so hes not fully tired and waking up.

Thanks! I'll try anything. This child just doesn't nap!

6 months was the start of the 3 to 2 nap transition for us. Previously he was doing about an hour in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon and 30 mins cat nap at about 5 to see us through to bed time. We then spent about a month sometimes having 3, sometimes 2 and was solidly on 2 naps at 7 months. I followed his lead. However, he was already sleeping great in his cot for long naps and self settling for at his point. From other babies I know he was quite young to drop to 2 but obviously they are all different and anything goes 😂. I think you may struggle on just 2 naps if at least one of them isn’t a longish one. However, nothing wrong with experimenting with longer awake times and seeing how it goes. By 6 months DS was doing about 2.45/3 hours awake time. Ds was in his own room at 51/2 months and it greatly improved his night sleep, although he still doesn’t sleep through

Well done on making progress that’s great. I can see that you’ve posted a lot of threads jelly. I totally get that this sleeping malarkey is a minefield and you want what’s best for your baby but honestly if you just relax, let go and let baby lead it is so much less stressful. Things greatly improved from us when I stopped stressing/trying to control and just went with it. They do what they want at the end of the day and before you know it he will be all grown up and sleep won’t always been an issue. Things can also change greatly very quickly as it did for us. Give yourself a wee break, you’re doing a fantastic job, never forget that.

6 month schedule
7am wake
9.15-10 nap
12.30-2.30 nap
6.30 bed

At 6 months DS was going roughly 2.5 hours between naps and having 3 a day. He fought them constantly though so it was a huge hassle but things vastly improved at around 7mo. He's 9.5mo now and we are on 2 naps a day and generally he seems a lot more settled with them.