Help getting my 6 month old sleeping through the night

Moms on call was a good way for me to get my baby to sleep at that age. It’s mainly following the babies sleep cycles and light sleep training. I have a friend that used a weighted sleep sack that helped her tones bc she didn’t want to sleep train! So I think it’s totally doable. We just have to find the right aide for the right family.

Is he waking to eat? If so, gradually increase the amount in each bottle throughout the day to drop one feed, and then a week or two later, do it again to drop the second feed. That’s what we did and it worked well. If he’s waking and not eating, he could still be hungry, so again I’d suggest increasing food amount. Last suggestion is if he’s waking and it’s usually a diaper, do a diaper change with minimal light while he’s sleeping right before you go to bed, should help get him through the night.

Hopefully something here is helpful for you ❤️

Biologically 100% normal. I’m pro-sleep training but I also think some babies need feeding overnight. We sleep trained gently but didn’t night wean and she didn’t drop the overnight feed until she was 13 months old.

My 3.5 year old still wakes up to 4 times a night🤷🏼‍♀️ some kids take longer to ‘sleep through’

Have you tried a dream feed? In the early days I used to do dream feed at 10pm (which my husband would do before he came to bed) and I’d set my alarm and do a feed at 3am as she usually woke at 4.30 for a feed and thought it was the start of the day. Meant I was able to sleep 9pm till 3am and then 3.30 till 6 or 7am. Still broken sleep but I defo benefitted from the 6 hour stretch.

Essentially I was preempting feeds and doing them when it ‘suited’ me more.

My LO is 8 months now and generally sleeps through but I still do the dream feed and often will need to go in to replace dummy/soothe at 2/3am. Hope some of this helps.

My baby has woken twice in the night for the last 2 nights and I feel like a new woman! He's been up anywhere between 5 and 15 times a night normally. I'm thinking the heat and fresh air is tiring him out. 6 months is still so very young for them to be sleeping through the night. Maybe your baby isn't quite there developmentally yet, waking for reassurance, food, comfort etc. Hang on in there, it's not forever x

@Kaytlen Thanks! I'll try that!