6 month old sleep gone horrific

[miamiamia869]

My baby slept through the night from 8 weeks with no feed 10-6 or 7.

He has been through phases where he wakes alot for what ever reason.

He always fell asleep down stairs with us around 7 and I would wake him at 9 for feed n change but stopped doing this and started putting him to bed at 7.30. He is exhausted by this time as he not much of a napper.

The last 2 weeks have been of the scale he is waking every 20 mins for dummy. Waking up and needing rocking, waking and playing. I was up 11 times with him last night and has been like that for a couple of weeks. At 5.30 when hubby leaves I bring him into my bed and sleeps solid till I wake him at 7. However co sleeping is not for me our duvet ls too heavy for him and I just worry so not something I want to change too. He sleeps in his own room now.

Thanks for any tips or ideas

He always fell asleep down stairs with us around 7 and I would wake him at 9 for feed n change but stopped doing this and started putting him to bed at 7.30. He is exhausted by this time as he not much of a napper.

First thing to try might be putting the 9pm feed back in. Your previous routine worked better.

Agree with pp. A dream feed at 9/10 would probably keep him sleeping

I will try a dream feed tonight and see. He has just been fighting his nap screaming and laughing in intervals for the past hour n half. It's genuinlt all day and all night I'm dealing with this.

I think it is his dummy in the night that keeps coming out and waking him

Thank you

I’d guess too hungry to sleep through, so I agree with other posters that putting back the extra feed might help. Are you weaning yet?

@Ohthatsabitshit thank you. Yeah started coiple weeks ago. Only puree atm. He eats well porridge and fruit in mornings and all differant things of evening and a yogart or fruit dessert. He eats well and takes his bottles well. Always fed well.

If you've taken out a feed his calories and nutrition may have gone down quite a lot. Don't forget milk remains the main food source until age 1.

Maybe try porridge in the evening? It may just be his tummy gurgling on new food is making him less drowsy and more alert.

Get rid of the dummy! He needs to learn to self soothe.

Get rid of the dummy! It causes so much inconsistency with sleep - we paid for a sleep coach at 7 months and getting rid of the dummy was one of the first things she insisted on.

This happened with my LO around the time she started weaning so as someone else said make sure he is still getting sufficient calories from milk. His milk feeds should not have reduced significantly at this age. I seem to remember my daughter’s sleep soon settled. I got rid of the dummy around this age too as it was just becoming too disruptive to good sleep. It’s also possible he is actually overtired. A six month old should still be napping at least twice a day. I reckon if you are waking him at seven he should be ready to be put down again for a longish nap by 11/11:30. Then another nap mid afternoon.

You say he’s not much of a baller but what naps is he having? Sleep begets sleep! If he’s overtired when he’s going to bed his body will be releasing cortisol which will cause frequent waking.
if he isn’t napping then I’d bring his bedtime forward significantly. It’s a long time since we were at 6 months but from memory our son went to bed no more than 3 hours after waking from his last nap so that was generally around 6pm.

I’m going against the grain compared to some others here, but try Sleepytot—it helps your little one find their dummies during the night. It worked for our eldest from 4 months old, and when we took the dummies away at 2 years, he still had his teddy for comfort.”

@Floundering66 @JRM17 ....I also think we need to get the rid of the dummy but he is inconsolable without it. I have heard allt of people say a few nights and it's done. How did you take away the dummy and what was it like?.

@Vurrsome thank you I will look into one of these as he loves his dummy.

As some have suggested being over hungry. He is also not interested in bottles as much since weaning. He just seems to plays with them sometimes but then sometimes he's good. He used to drink every drop of every bottle before always has.

I tried doing dream feeds when we go to bed at around 9.30 10 but he just wasn't drinking any.

I think he's teeth are hurting and he is having trouble self settling when he knocks his dummy out!!

Thanks for all the advice x

Oh and his day time naps are not great. He fights them like crazy. He maybe has a couple of 20 min ones sometimes they can be 40 mins to an hour. Generally only 2 a day he deffinatly gets over tired