6 month old waking 5/6 times a night

My EBF 6-month old little girl is still waking every 2 hours at night. Each time I am feeding her back to sleep. She does seem to feed for on average 5 mins each time and initially did think she was hungry but at 6 months I did not anticipate she would need feeding quite so regularly and hence I’m questioning whether it’s more of a comfort thing. I’m considering not feeding her every other time she wakes and instead for either myself or my partner to settle her back to sleep again. Has anyone else had a similar experience and this has worked successfully??

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My son is 8 months and we have the same issue. Before Xmas I was reducing feeds at night and he was eating much better in the day time. He also started doing long stretches in the night but Xmas and being away from routine messed up the progress and I’m back at square one again. Going to commit to reducing the feeds again (frequency and length of time i feed for).

My 9 month old little guy did that from 4-6 months. I found he would eat 5-8 minutes and fall asleep, but then wake every two hours! It helped to let him eat 5-8 minutes then wake him up with a diaper change. Then he would nurse another 5-8 minutes on the other side. That got him to sleep about 4 hour stretches. I also found it helpful to offer higher fat content purées/solids before bedtime. We started that at 6 months and he now only wakes once a night. Occasionally he even sleeps through the night. Hang in there! I know the lack of sleep is brutal!

I tried that for like 2 days when my daughter was 1 and went back to the feeding to sleep for every wake as it was definitely quicker than rocking or anything! 😂 We also started cosleeping at 8 months old and that was a lifesaver. I think generally some babies just wake more easily (and 6 months is pretty young still) so with all the growing, weaning, teething, learning to crawl/walk they just wake no matter what you do!

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