6 month old only settles with BF at night

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My 6 month old self settles to sleep with no sleep aids however wakes every few hrs and only settles with a bf. She is not hungry and it’s just for comfort. I am up about 3/4 times a night. Any tips to get out of this situation. I’m sooo tired

Unfortunately, this sounds completely normal. I ebf and had a similar experience. It did start to get a little better once I started weaning though.

I am afraid this is all terribly normal. My dd2 went through a hideous sleep phase starting at around this age for a couple of months. She would be awake multiple times a night and woukdninky settle with a feed. I was on my knees.

It did pass though. Honestly.

Iyou have my sympathy

Have you tried a dummy? Perhaps express some bm onto it?

I am in the same situation at 12 months :( will uoh consider co sleeping? It has saved my sanity

I had a similar experience with both of mine. I was very grateful to the HCP who explained how to co-sleep safely and this helped me to get the sleep I needed and be able to BF and settle DC.
If you've not looked into co-sleeping, do research it. I never thought it would be something I would do, but if I have any more DC, I definitely would again.

Completely normal - it'll pass.

No tips sorry - just the benefit of hindsight & lots of sympathy!

My bottle fed baby is 10 months and he wakes up at night for milk still. He usually wakes up once or twice for his dummy too. So very similar really. At 6 months it's very common for babies to be up 3/4 times a night. It will improve in time.

You can try a dummy (though still have to get up to provide this), co sleeping, sleep train or just carry on as you are and wait for it to improve of its own accord.

I'm the same with my seven month old. He barely sleeps longer than an hour and I am nearly dying from sleep deprivation. No ideas but just hovering around to see if anyone has any miracle cures. It's been gradually getting worse over the last month or so. We did cosleep up till recently but he was becoming very unsettled in bed which prompted me to put him in his own cot in his own room. He still sleeps terribly and I feel like I'm constantly feeding him all night. He won't take a dummy either. At my wits end! He's on three meals a day and sadly hasn't made a difference to us. For those who said it passed with their bf babies, roughly when? It is making me want to stop bfing as if my husband could help I wouldn't find it so hard as we could take turns x

With my dd I was BFing but giving one bottle of formula a day at 6 months. At that stage she was waking maybe 4 or 5 times a night. At 8 months I decided I was done with BFing and started phasing in more bottles. I couldn’t get my head around getting up to make bottles 4 or 5 times a night so we kept BFing at night. At around 10 months she was bottle fed exclusively during the day but BF at night. One night randomly she only woke twice so I decided to give a bottle rather than BF. She had two bottles for maybe three nights then one bottle for a week or so then that was it. No more night feeding. So I would say at around 11 months. I have absolutely no idea if feeding had an impact. She randomly started taking a dummy at 6 months having always refused. She was also swaddled until 8 months.

We introduced a myhummy bear and j think that did help with the transition.

She is still not a great sleeper and I am currently hugely grateful that I am a lazy mare and never got rid of the spare bed from her room as I am currently it in far more than my own bed