My 6.5 month old son has always been a disturbed sleeper, never slept through yet. I’m trying to establish a routine but don’t know how to do it. Firstly, different books say different things about the amount of daily sleep a baby should have at this age ; and the night bedtime - some day 7pm, some say it’s 10 pm.. so which one is it? My son wakes around 5-6.30am, then for a nap every 1.5 -2.5h, naps are never more than 1.5h each. At lunch napnhe religiously wakes up after 30 min and it takes me a lot of effort to make him sleep for longer because books say a 2h lunch nap is critically important. Then he falls asleep around 7-7.30pm and wakes frequently from 10-11pm onwards; or moves around a lot so I feel pity that he’s not resting and end up helping him to fall asleep ; other than that it’s bf to sleep but this brings an issue or my breasts becoming overfull with milk at night due to too much sucking.
The routine and bad sleep has gone worse since past 3 months
So my questions are:
- what’s the right amount of daytime sleep at this age if there is such thing
- what’s the optimum bedtime if there is such thing
- how long naps should be ideally
- why is he waking after 30 min only during his lunch nap and how to make him sleep for 2h st lunch
- why is he waking frequently at night after first 2-4h of sleep
- how to tackle 5am wake
Any tips, advice, experience on any of the above would be highly appreciated