Sleeping help!

My little one(6 months) used to be a great sleeper - would go down anywhere between 10/11 and wake up 8 the next day. With no rhyme or reason, we’re now lucky to get him down for 3/4 hours a night. Sometimes he’s awake multiple times throughout too. He wakes for a feed before going back down. We’re currently weaning him and he’s EBF. He’ll normally have 3 ‘meals’ a day - porridge, fruit purée at lunch & then dinner - but hasn’t dropped any feeds off the back of that and still stick to feeding him every two hours. Just feel like he’s constantly hungry and nothing sates him! Thought starting him on foods was meant to make things easier?! 😂Anyone else been through anything similar? And has any suggestions? He has his rare nights when he sleeps right through but not for a good few months now😴

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Sounds very much like you have hit the 6 month sleep regression, aswell as possibly he isn’t satisfied with how much he is getting? Could be he is going through a growth spurt.

Have you been weaning for long? They say to introduce one meal at a time, each week. So breakfast for a week, then breakfast & lunch a week/2 weeks later if that makes sense?.

My LOnis the exact same. Would go down and sleep straight through. Couldn’t wake her now the last 4 night, she’s been up between 3/4. 🤦🏻‍♀️ xxx

definitely hit something! He’s been like this for probably about two month now! We’ve been weaning him since he was about 5 and a half months so been doing it for about a month. We started weaning because it seemed he wasn’t getting enough

Right?! It’s almost like having a newborn again🥲

Exactly rhe same here too. Used to sleep through every night but for the past 3 weeks is up multiple times for feeds. I just keep crossing my fingers that it's the 6 month leap and it will pass soon.

I'm the same here are you feeding when he wakes as that seems to be the only thing that will allow mine to go back to sleep and he's taking a full feed

@Hannah yes I'm feeding back to sleep every time 😴

My daughter is exactly the same, we started weaning last week and now sleep has gone Pete tong, she only seems to be sleeping for an hour at a time through the night! Praying for us mamas that we get more sleep soon!!

We have hit the 6 month sleep regression and I swear we’ve only just come out of the 4 month old one🤯 at least at 4 months he would settle back down but now as soon as we put him down he wakes back up or he’s up at 3am stalking to the bears on his feet 😂 or just up in general!
I don’t mind him waking up at all but the longest stretch we got last night was 2 hours 😩😩😩

Same for my boy a few weeks ago. We decided he was possibly overtired by going to bed late so we changed his schedule from 10pm bed time to 8pm. It has worked well so far! He does get up slightly earlier (5/6pm) and is still adjusting but in the long run we hope he will do 8-8!

P.S. After we made the change his naps are much better too!

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