How to train 6 month old who wakes every hour at night?

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Currently typing this at 4am with another night of wake-ups every 60 minutes.

• Baby has been waking up every 30-60 minutes during the night.
• Has two 30/60min naps a day
• Consistent bath bed routine at 8pm, up at 8am
• I go into her room and have to lay down next to her in the cot and put her on the side cuddled into me and she goes back to sleep
• Used to cosleep until this month, moved her to her room because I thought I'm waking her up often at night, I think she was just crying because she wasn't hugging me
• No daytime signs of teething
• She uses a dummy and sometimes cries when it falls out
• Tried to send her dad in sometimes when I'm too tired and she ends up crying for over an hour
• Tried doing Ferber but we both end up crying after 10 minutes

Help, I don't want to be up every hour at night anymore please

You could try gradual retreat. You stay in the room and gradually move your chair away every night toward the door.

She's still a big too young for crying out. Or try the baby whisperer method.

Empathy here - I had to sleep train both mine but they were over 1 each time.

Hi - I can't be much help as we're still struggling with sleep and can't sleep train, but sending sympathy as I know how hard it is.

Just wanted to say mine was like this with her dad for ages, and then at 9 months or so it suddenly clicked and she would be happy for him to go to her in the night, and would even fall back asleep for him. We didn't change anything, it was just developmental for her. Hopefully this happens soon for you too as it makes such a huge difference - the pressure isn't all on you all of the time and you get to catch up on some sleep.

I would ditch the dummy and do Ferber. I know it's hard but what you're going through now is harder and has no end in sight.
(Have a 6 month old and recently did the above)

• I go into her room and have to lay down next to her in the cot and put her on the side cuddled into me and she goes back to sleep

I’d put money thats why she is waking every 60 minutes or so in the night. Due to not being able to self settle, then when she stirs in the night she needs you to settle her. Once she learns to self settle, she’ll briefly wake in the night and self settle - we all wake and self settle in the night but mostly don’t remember.

tackle the putting to be, so she is able to settle herself and the night time waking will diminish

I coslept and they nursed through the night, it was a mix of normal baby behavior, growth and developmental spurts, teething, immune system (contact produces the right antibodies in your milk for what they've just been exposed to). We all wake frequently during the night, but babies don't have any concept of time and are programmed to need us for safety. That's why breastmilk produces sleepy hormones. It's unlikely you were waking her, she's just looking for comfort during her normal wakeups which is completely natural. If you both want to, there's nothing wrong with safe cosleeping to cuddle up like you used to and keep on sleeping.

I feel you. We are doing the Ferber method, tried it once and it worked well but then he got a cold so it set us back. Trying again, we’ve not had more than 6 mins of crying though, I’m not sure how I’d handle more than that. Really hope things improve for you soon.