Night sleep

Anyone else’s 5 and half month olds night sleep gone to shit? She’s always been a good sleeper at night but just lately she will stir from around 12:30 and I’ll cuddle her put her down then she’s waking 30/45 minutes later. She’s doing this until 3am it’s draining the only way she’s settling is in my bed and I do not want to do that as I’m worried it’ll make it worse when she needs to sleep in her our room. I am exhausted

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Yep! Mines 6 months now and has been going on for a whole month 😭 she would sleep from 9ish - 3/4am for a feed and then sleep through until 8. She’s up every 3-4 hours at the start of the night and the after 4am up every hour😭

Mine also! He’s 6 months tomorrow and literally will not be put down for longer than 1 hour. He will only sleep being held - and sometimes if I bring him into bed with me I can get a 2-3 hour stretch. Last night was the worst and he shouted from midnight til 2am then up again at 5.30am. Wtf is going on? Is this the 6 month regression. It’s killing me.

There is a regression at six months. Only thing you can do is ride it out . I understand I’m in the same boat your not alone though

Here’s me thinking it was just at 4 months 🫠 over it!

I didn’t realise there was a regression at 6 months! Thanks for the info. I thought I survived after the 4 month one (which looking back was nothing compared to this lol)

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