How can I get some sleep without sleep training my 6 month old

[JaneElle]

I need some anecdotal advice or support before 3 months of interrupted sleep permanently impacts my sanity!

Context: Toddler (2 years old), baby 6 months olds, moving house in a month.

My EBF baby sleeps no more than 2 hours at a time. He has a very strong sleep association with being fed to sleep and so I always have to feed him back to sleep.

Most nights start with a 2 hour stretch - 20:30-22:30. Then it’s hourly until 2/3am. I then give up and just bring him in the bed where he will wake anywhere between 04:30am and 06:30am.

i have tried the whole ‘sleepy but drowsy’ thing. I’ve also tried just leaving him but even if he gets calm he will then get worked up again. Can’t use a comforter yet due to age and I’m not keen on a dummy as I have heard the horrors of phasing those out! I don’t love cosleeping as I dont sleep great. Also my nipples need a break from the relentless feeding 😂

We can’t sleep train yet as he doesn’t have his own room. Is there anything I can do to increase his nighttime sleep or am I doomed until we can get him in his own room?

We had to sleep train our toddler at 6 months for the exact same sleep association but she was worse and up every 45 minutes from 4 months old. However, now that I have two I don’t have the luxury of catching up on sleep during the day so this feels like a new level of challenging.

Thanks for reading and for any help you can give x

Tbh it sounds like baby isnt going to bed with a full tummy and is grazing all night to keep hunger away. I bf but gave a bottle of formula before bed and then tucked up in cots in our room and that was it from 11-7:30am and our twins our last I did the same, they moved into there own rooms from 14 months and there fine and dandy unless ill for sleeping

Its completely your decision these things; but you have much listed every thing I can think of and said why you wont do any of these things.

You can definately do comforters at 6 months. My boy had a teddy at 3-4 weeks I think. Doctors, HV, everyone saw it and no one said anything other than how cute it was.

I ended up giving a dummy around 5 months when went through this stage and it did help slightly. My DS actually only took it for a few weeks and then stopped using it. He then used it intermittently throughout the first year. He only actually became dependent on it after 12 months and I had to remove it at 2 to. Thought it would be horrendous but actually he understood about the dummy fairy by then and we swapped it out for a present and he only had 2 nights of asking for it and then was fine. So if a dummy would help don't be too scared to try as you will be able to get rid of it, and would also recommend doing this before a year as will be easier before getting too attsched