6 month old not sleeping

[candymanmummy]

Hi please can anyone help me. I'm a new mummy. My 6 month old has started to not sleep enough in day or night. He's in own from from a week ago and has started solids. Daytime naps are half hour long in crib then wakes up. Only way to get him back to sleep is to be in my arms. I don't think he knows how to self soothe. At night we have a routine of bath story bottle bed. We rock him to sleep and place in crib. Half hour he wakes up. He has a top up bottle at 11pm now instead of 1am. He has started to wake up between 1am and 3am. Again only way to sleep is in my arms. Which he will sleep till 630am. I've tried cry it out but he gets so hysterical. Chair method not working. Please can anyone help im losing the will to live x

I'm sorry OP its awful. I'm sure you are doing a great job.

Babies just start to become so much more aware at that age - so rocking and cuddling to sleep becomes more of a conscious crutch for them falling asleep and when they wake from naps and nightime. That's not a bad thing - for instance some families are happy with co sleeping - it really work for them.

However if you want them to sleep on their own and for long stretches, then rocking sleep only becomes harder, particularly as they get older and heavier.

6months is a great age to start some sort of sleep training. Cry it out or gradual retreat/stay and support. Former is usually very effective - but its intense and you got to be ok with those hysterics. Gradual retreat/stay and support is more gentle.

I'm doing Lucy Wolf's stay and support at the moment. It is no silver bullet- but my DS is more capable of falling to sleep without my help. Have a long way to go before he will allow me to walk out of the room when he is awake and I'm 17 days in. Its pretty exhausting but its the right approach for me.

Thank u ill look into that method. At least I'm not alone on this 😍

Theres a sleep regression at 6 months op, hamg on in there - itll get better in a few weeks
are you happy to co sleep? Dont worry about "the rules" just get through the next few weeks, sane!

• i never co slept until the 6 month regression nightmare Baby maybe a bit too little for the chair method and cry it out. Little poppet only knows mum=safety and comfort can you put the cot next to your bed? Can you take one side down? ( i had my baby on the "cot" side to settle and then slid him over to his own bit- he was happy enough to see and smell me ) does Baby use a love2dream swaddle or bag? That cosy comfort feeling? are you heating the cot with a little hot water bottle so it doesnt feel different? This regression is the worst one- dont make plans in the day ( with anyone you wouldn't want to offend ! ) let the house got to shit - sleep when they sleep. hugs !

He's always had a blanket so we are still using this. He likes it. We have just moved him to his own room. He use to have a travel cot in our room. We have blocked out windows tonight to see if this helps. Thank u 💓