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6 month sleep regression?!

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Laur2017 · 19/01/2019 09:30

My DS is coming up to 6 months next week. In the last couple of weeks he seems to have lost his ability to self sooth, fusses unless I hold him and walk around with him, and doesn't seem to sleep for more than an hour at a time in the night.

The only way to get him to sleep now is to feed him - which could be up to 6 times each night. Sometimes even after feeding I put him down he'll wake straightaway and I have to repeat the process a couple of times within a short space of time.

This is a drastic change to the progress we had made when he had been managing anything up to 7 hours in a row. He used to be able to self sooth during the day and often fell asleep without much input from myself or DH. He just seems to be unhappy and fusses 80% of the time.

Has anyone else experienced this sort of behaviour around the 6 month period? Any advice or help would be great!

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Laur2017 · 22/01/2019 05:21

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FTMF30 · 22/01/2019 18:06

Not much advice but my LO is just a bit older and we went/are still going through the same thing. It's absolutely exhausting.

I've tried feeding more in the day and reduced his night feeds to just once. Emotionally, it's hard to bare though as he will cry for ages as he just wants the comfort feed, but instead, I give a bit of a cuddle and pat to sleep. The plan is to make him less reliant on milk to go to sleep then I'll slowly stop the cuddles and patting to encourage him to self settle.

Dimsumlosesum · 22/01/2019 18:11

Yes. At varying ages. It happens as they grow more steadily aware.

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