6 month old wide awake middle of the night advice please

[Tommymummyft]

I have a little boy just turned 6 weeks old and he’s suddenly started waking in the middle of the night and taking between an hour to two hours to get back to sleep. He doesn’t cry he’s just wide awake. He goes to bed between 7:30 and 8pm and sometimes the wake is 11-11:30 or the other night it was 1:30 after a feed.

He only has 1 feed a night and doesn’t sleep through but before it would just be a quick dummy in or maybe a pick up and he was instantly back to sleep.

Ive read loads online about nap changes, leap 5 and 6 month sleep regression but wondered if anyone had been through the same thing and had any advice.

He has recently just dropped to three naps a day and is rocked to sleep. He can’t settle himself to sleep yet, I’ve tried leaving him to it but he just gets himself more awake the longer I leave him.

Could be! He started crawling at 6/7m and is cruising now at 10m. He also has a few words/noises already, so maybe a busy brain!
I also followed huckleberry wake windows quite strictly and he is pretty spot on with those nap times and lengths but doesn’t seem to make a difference. We‘be just transitioned to doing things by time, rather than wake windows (as per huckleberry advice) but no change yet!

I feel for you. Sleep deprivation or disruption is no joke and everyone has different thresholds with what they can cope with. Some of the replies with ‘I don’t see the problem’ are a bit unkind, the best advice I ever received sleep wise is ‘it’s only a problem if it’s a problem for you’ so if you can’t manage with the split nights (I know I can’t) then definitely follow some of the advice about naps and sleep pressure. It may be that if they can’t survive without three naps then you need a slightly later bedtime for a short time until they can drop a nap and then bedtime can shift earlier again.
what I’ve learned from my limited experience is that things with little ones change so quickly, that you shouldn’t get too hung up on what you think you should be doing, but do what works for now and change it if it stops working. Good luck!

@MathsGeek0 Thank you for such a kind message. You’re right about it changing quickly as we’re now getting wakes every hour so I’m thinking teething or developmental. Hopefully that’s all it is anyway and not here to stay. This parenting thing would be a lot easier with more sleep 🫠

My son did this until he was four 😆🙈 Not helpful or no advice sorry as absolutely nothing worked for us!