Nearly 6 months - how to encourage sleeping through the night

[user1465146157]

Hello
My dd is almost 6 months - she's currently up twice a night for quick feeds and usually 1 nappy change

Feel like we're at the stage we could encourage sleeping through - is there anything I could do to help things along?

We co-sleep due to space issues, all seems fine enough doing that so far.

If she could sleep through then we can put her in with her sibling, but until then don't want to risk disturbing them.

Any tips appreciated!

Is she breastfed or bottle fed? Does she have a dummy?

Tbh it sounds like she’s doing great, especially if she’s breastfed. My first didn’t stop night feeds until he was about 11 months. I’d only say that you don’t need to change their nappy at night if it’s only wee (and would be very unusual to poo at night at that age), so that might make it a bit easier on you at least.

Only nappy change if poo and wakes them up more.

Hi she's bottle fed and doesn't use a dummy.

thanks will try not to change wee-only nappies!

She sounds fine to me, especially as you co-sleep. If you didn't, I can assure you your little daughter would be waking up more. Don't be in too much of a hurry to put her in a room with her sibling, wait a while longer and gradually introduce it.

You are doing well!

Completely agree. This is great for a 6 months old. My 1yo was the same, only he stopped all night feeds from around 4m but he still woke up and still does now at night and settles
back without any issues with a quick cuddle (cosleeping). We change nappies (unless there's poo, extremely rarely!) first thing in the morning and DS has never had any related nappy rash.

I think to put her in a different room, you'd need to sleep train her in that particular room as removing her form your room / bed will cause disruption whether she sleeps through or not.

Was your older child a different sleeper to your DD?

@jessstan2 thank you!

@eensyweensySpider thank you - I wonder if I stopped the feed and just cuddled as sometimes i'm not sure its always hunger that wakes her in the night.
my older child was up a lot more for longer periods and still wakes sometimes now - so think thats why I'd like to try more with this one - had almost 5 years of broken sleep now, would really love to go through even a couple of nights a week at least!

Honestly just wait. She clearly still needs milk during the night. She will get there eventually but for now she is still little and has teething and sleep regressions to come.

You might actually have a point @user1465146157 The first time DS skipped his 1am feed was totally by accident. I remember being so damn tired I could barely get out of bed and as I picked him up, instead of turning the night light on and going straight downstairs as usual, I just sat at the side of the bed thinking I needed a minute to wake up a bit. And he just went back to sleep in my arms, not waking again until 5am. Which is when I fed him, but he never woke again for his night feed after this. We did the same with the 5am bottle a month later (he was about 4m then). Since then, he's been consistent with having his evening bottle at 9pm and morning bottle at 7.30am and sleeping fairly well in between. As I said, we still cosleep as it just works really well for us and I don't know much about sleep training.