How do Pople get their babies to sleep

6 months in and we have never had a full night sleep. Every night is 2-3 wake ups with a feed around 12/12.30 and a 1-2 hours of wake time in the night. LO rolls around still getting stuck on his front. I am so tired. And have no idea what to do to change things.
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What is your bedtime? Sometimes having it too early can impact things. So can his day naps and his day feeds, it can all have a knock on effect if they're over tired or under fed. If you have a velcro baby like us, where they sleep can impact too. We've bed shared since two weeks old when he decided the next to me was the devil, haha. Now he's 6 months we're back to using the next to me again and he's good now. From birth, we never really had a bedtime, so to speak, we just kind of followed his lead and he kind of presented his own bedtime, which is around 9. He still wakes once in the night for a feed, but other than his sleep regression phases, this is all he does. We play white noise all night long too. I'm sorry you're still struggling, you'll get there.

2-3 wakes sounds like it could be normal I'm afraid. Also if he's learning to roll or teething he is going to wake more frequently. How many daytime naps? Between 6-7mo they often drop from 3 daytime naps to 2. Have you started weaning? Is he self-soothing and in his own room? Every baby is different... We've just got to 2 wakes and I'm celebrating... used to be 5 😅

My little girl turned 6 months and she has been getting up Every 3/4 times for feed, it’s because I have been been comfort feeding her. So for the last couple of days last feed is around 9/10pm and during the night she still cry’s 4/5 times but we just put a dummy back in and she goes back to sleep and then next feed is around 7am. Hoping inbetween wakes will stop by implementing this. Fingers crossed

You're having split nights from the sounds of things, unfortunately that is developmental and comes and goes. Just some tips, you're likely already doing these but just in case: When baby wakes, no lights on, no talking, no phone/tablet, be as boring as possible. Feed more during the day and see if you can bring the last feed forward to 11pm. You might need to do this by bringing every feed forward by 15 mins at a time over a few days to get them on to a new schedule. This goes for bed time as well. It's a bit early for me to be doing it now, but at around 9/11 months I'll be trying to drop the middle of the night feeds (we co-sleep currently) by offering water instead. This worked well with my eldest and he soon lost interest in waking up for that. Also there have been many a night in the past where I've put the toddler to bed at 7/8pm and just called it a day too. Sleep is so important to a good mood in this house!

My first baby didn’t start sleeping through consistently until 18 months. Some just take a long time but it’s normal. My 6 month old slept through a few times then we hit the 6 month regression so the last few weeks have been rough but co sleeping has helped me so much. Planning on moving him to his own room very soon to see if that helps

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