6 month old babys sleep is getting worse

[Sesame2011]

My baby will be 6 months in a couple weeks and I've been struggling with her sleep recently.

For the first 3 months her sleep was okay/somewhat decent for a newborn, no complaints! Then the sleep regression hit and feel like its been steadily getting worse.

She is EBF but we have introduced some foods in the last couple of days to see if it helped.

She will go to bed around 8pm, usually have a couple of false starts where she needs settling with the dummy. Then she will wake around midnight for a feed, then 3 then 5 then 7. Sometimes she can be awake for over an hour. Ive tried settling her back to sleep without the breast but isn't always easy. My partner gets up to nappy change and try to wind/fart her as sometimes she sounds like shes struggling with gas.

The broken sleep is killing me. A few nights ago my partner told me to sleep in the spare room and she would bring the baby to me for feeding. That night the baby slept from 11-6!! Is it because I wasn't there? We have tried making her bed/the room warmer incase she is cold.

We dont co sleep, there's no room in the bed. She sleeps in a next to me.

Help? :(

Are you maybe a loud sleeper? Maybe your partner is quieter and that's the reason for the longer stretch?

We moved ebf dd into her own room at 6 months and that improved things because she wasn't disturbed by us. It's also really nice to have your bedroom back to yourselves again and not have to tiptoe around to not wake the baby!

Hmmm haven't thought about that. I think I can snore at times but so does my partner. I thought baby maybe slept better because she couldn't smell me.

My partner is keen to move baby into her own room but im tentative. Mostly because I dont want to get up and down all night if her sleep doesn't improve. We did try it once last week but she was really unsettled for hours before we brought her back in with us. Maybe need to keep trying.

It could also be not smelling you, for sure.

I was also pretty apprehensive about moving her and being in and out of the bedroom all night, but I had a really comfy armchair to bf in and a cozy blanket so it wasn't too bad at all. I actually found it a lot more supportive and comfy than feeding sat up in bed. It went down to only one wake most nights, after a couple of days.

But also, if it doesn't work out, you can always move her back in with you.

I had the same worry, about being up and down all night; but it wasn’t too bad. Baby sleep didnt get any worse when we put her in her own room, and has got a bit better overall although badly hit by 12 month sleep regression. We have a floor bed so I cosleep when I cant be bothered to go back and forth anymore… could be worth a try in own room, you could always change back.

And I wouldn’t hold too much hope with food, it takes a long time for them to actually consume enough to fill them up! It sounds like she might need a longer gap before bed? Maybe do later bedtime or cut her last nap shorter?