6m old waking every sleep cycle

[Kittiewhite89]

Hi all
My son is 6m and can’t self soothe.
He can to fall asleep but can’t when he wakes after a sleep cycle. He will literally wake and cry after every one, for all naps and for nighttime. I am so exhausted.
He has no sleep props, no dummy as we got rid of this, doesn’t get fed to sleep and doesn’t get cuddled/fall asleep on me.
He sleeps on his tummy as he has severe reflux and is more comfortable this way,he refuses to sleep on his back.

He sleeps in a sleeping bag and we use white noise and Have done since day 1 so nothing has changed.

This is his routine:
7am wake and bottle
9am nap after school run (wakes after 30/45 mins, but He used to nap for an hour and a half)
10:30 bottle
12:30 nap (wakes again after a short time but used to sleep for 1 hour)
1:30 bottle
Nap 3:30 after school run (wakes again after 45 ish mins, used to sleep for an hour)
4:30 bottle
7:30 bath, bottle and bed
10:30 dreamfeed

He does have a bit of food in between but nothing significant. He still has quite a lot of feeds as he can only take 5oz max per bottle, not sure if this is reflux related but he’s still getting 30oz a day.

I’ve tried anbesol on his gums before sleep time and tonight I’ve even given him nurofen in case it’s his teeth, but he wakes up pretty much every sleep cycle so I doubt it’s that.

I just don’t know what to do. He doesn’t sleep in my bed but the odd time he has come in he’s just the same.
When he wakes and cries I go to him to settle him by patting his back until he calms down then I don’t go in again. He always stops crying after about 10/15 minutes anyway and goes back to sleep but never stays asleep.

Any ideas on what could be going on and how to help him settle? My LG had a dummy and she never spat it out and she slept really well, and always has done so this is completely new to me.

Tia xx

It sounds normal to me OP, although of course that doesn't mean it's not hard! My DD didn't start self settling until after a year, and her naps and night time sleep were properly fucked after the four month regression and it was a long time before her naps exceeded half an hour again.

No help here; mine is exactly 6 mo and woke every hour last night or 30 mins nearer dawn. I know as I'm wired on steroids for my chest and the 5 yo was puking all night with dh.

He'll go back with boob but it makes his reflux worse.

I'm putting him back on ranitidine but I think it's developmental actually.

Mine is almost 6mo and exactly the same. He woke 8 times last night including 1 hour screaming session between 1-2am, before finally getting up for the day at 5am

It's a good job he's cute.

Op could you reintroduce the dummy?

Co sleep to help get through?

I know he was waking every 1-2 hours last night and farts woke him at 6 after some restlessness / cluster feeding since 5 but I must say as I had him in with me I don't remember fully waking myself till 5:30. (Basically I went back to sleep well each time thank fuck the steroids are going out of my system!)