6 mo does not sleep

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6 months old and just does not sleep and I’m a single mum at breaking point, I am the main giver she’s with me 24/7

she sleeps for no longer than a 2 hour stretch in one go. Wakes every 1.5/2hr and she will feed milk and after about 30 mins to an hour go back to sleep for an hour or 2
starting weaning and now having a dinner before bed and it’s not made a difference
I don’t know what to do, I’m too tired to be doing all this sleep training lark and sitting by the cot why she screams I don’t know what to do

i Had this with both kids op it’s soul destroying!

in the end I just co slept until they were a bit older and then sleep trained at around 10 months when I felt he was more ready for it.

Are you trying to get the baby to sleep in own cot?? If so then I’d just say get a nice safe co sleeping situation set up up! I had bed against wall, iPad handy, kindle and water bottle etc - all reachable, no pillows except the one I was using and a light blanket for myself and baby was in sleep bag so no blankets for him.

then I’d just get in bed lie beside him feed to sleep and then I had low lights on and could watch something on iPad with headphones or read or I’d listen to a podcast

then through the night it was literally a case of feeding back to sleep every time and it was quick and I didn’t have to fully wake up

i tried sleep training at 6 months but it didn’t really work until he was bigger so I sacked it off for a while

What's her routine like? Make sure she's not over tired or under tired as that'll impact the nights.

Your options are basically:

• Hope that it gets better with time (it will eventually, for some sooner and others later)
• Embrace co sleeping
• Choose a sleep training method and stick with it for 3 days

I ended up sleep training at 6 months because months of waking every hour is torture after a while. It wasn't as bad as I expected and only had about 20 mins of crying at most, but I think it helped that I'd done everything else possible before getting to that stage.

@Fupoffyagrasshole i let her sleep in my bed but it’s no difference

In my opinion six months is the worst age for sleep! Solidarity as going through it now with my nearly 7 month old. I’m in the process of trying to comfort him in other ways to go to sleep on his cot rather than being fed to sleep and we had a 4 hour stretch last night which is unheard of these days- just three days ago he was walking every hour or two most nights

Sleep training works. It’s hard for the first couple of nights. I did mine at 6 and 8 months. Game changer.

My little boy wouldn’t sleep in my bed anymore form 10ish months so I just committed to sleep training then. Maybe that’s what you need to do

you can do really gentle methods

i did leaving the room for 3mins going back in and coming out again and gradually increasing time i was gone

by the 3rd night there was a massive improvement

hes 13 months now and i just put him in bed and say good night and he goes asleep himself

it will get better