Sleep or lack of!!

Meeeee79

Hey all,

Looking for peoples experiences to try and give myself some hope!

My 6.5 month olds sleep is getting worse and worse. Some nights waking every hour other nights doing 2-3 hour stretches. Usually wants a bottle to settle. Back to work in a month and hoping beyond hope that this will naturally sort itself out at some stage. Think im too exhausted to do any kind of "sleep training" which is only on my mind as I cant seem to escape Lucy Wolfe these days on social media or tv!!

Anyone have a really bad sleeper that just somehow "clicked" eventually and started to improve?

pwurple

Have you a soother? Sub that in for the bottle?

Anne_cordelia

Meeeee79 wrote: »

Hey all,

Looking for peoples experiences to try and give myself some hope!

My 6.5 month olds sleep is getting worse and worse. Some nights waking every hour other nights doing 2-3 hour stretches. Usually wants a bottle to settle. Back to work in a month and hoping beyond hope that this will naturally sort itself out at some stage. Think im too exhausted to do any kind of "sleep training" which is only on my mind as I cant seem to escape Lucy Wolfe these days on social media or tv!!

Anyone have a really bad sleeper that just somehow "clicked" eventually and started to improve?

Yes. I didn’t do anything but mine just improved themselves. It’s very tough.

margo321

i remember sleep coach blog said needing botttle to get to sleep is biggest cause of waking. she ssid cut it out with dummy or put wster in bottle. good luck its like a form of torture.

Milly33

Have they always been like this or is it a new thing? If tis a new thing it might be just a leap they are going through, i think there is one around 6months...Wonder weeks is a good app if you have the old snazzy phone..

If not well have to say for me routine is the best thing. If the naps are established during they day they should sleep well, i would also advise off giving into the bottle or well maybe give water instead of milk with the bottle or just use a soother...

shesty

Don't give a bottle.

Six month olds wake at night.It's just what they do.If you are giving a bottle to drop off, that's what he needs to drop off , you end up making umpteen bottles a night.Sub in the soother, or spend a few nights sitting it out with him (do it at a weekend because you are working).He is just stirring and waking a lot at night and his way of going back to sleep is with his bottle, so you need to give him another way.There are developmental changes but unless you remove the bottle, that habit will continue.

Sorry.....

Dobbit

My 7 month old is also a rubbish sleeper even without bottles, I'm hoping that it will settle once he's in creche full time as it did with his older brother. We got him to cut out the bottles by reducing the amount oz by oz over a couple of weeks until it was just water and he wasn't interested in that.

It's so tough though, I feel like I'm walking around with marshmallow for brain most days.

Charles Ingles

Bit of tough love.
Easier said than done I know, but Mrs ingles was fantastic and didn't crack she would let all our babies cry themselves to sleep and comfort themselves.
She would feed (breast of course) winded changed for bed than that was it till the morning.
After couple of weeks babies would settle, I'd of been softer but she was right and got full night's sleep

Milly33

I got all excited there with the Charles Ingles name, oh man he would still be my pin up!!! Sorry had to be said..

lazygal

Have a six month old too, I think we were on the Sept thread?
Anyway, we moved our fella into his room last week. Had a brutal night the first night, then less brutal and now he's sleeping great. We didn't do crying it out, we lifted for cuddles then straight back into cot, repeat as needed. We cleared our weekend to ensure we could focus on this and we were wrecked for a couple of nights but the sleep payoff is worth it.

Charles Ingles

Milly33 wrote: »

I got all excited there with the Charles Ingles name, oh man he would still be my pin up!!! Sorry had to be said..

I only have eyes for Mrs Ingles

shesty

To be fair, our ten month old is very disturbed with coughing at night at the moment.In general he is quite good, but I resign myself to a number of broken night's sleep a week for the first couple of years of their lives.

Zombie doesn't begin to describe it.

AndyBoBandy

The key to get a good sleep pattern is to stop feeding on demand, as then baby knows and learns that it'll be fed/bottled when it wants, not when it needs.

When our son was 3 1/2 months old, we started giving him bottles at set times throughout the day, ensuring he had a full days worth of milk in him.
2-3 weeks later he was sleeping all night (10pm - 6am). It's almost like the child needs to be coached into not needing a bottle during the night as it's had its fill during the day.

We read (a portion) of a book by a British nanny (Gina Ford) with vast experience, and followed her advice and it worked a charm.

In the 4 years since, we've had about 10 woken nights that weren't illness related.

Gina Ford - The Contended Baby's First Year

Just to note this might not be the exact book we read, as ours was in Lithuanian (so actually I didn't read it at all), but the title roughly translates to 'baby's first year diary'
This lady Gina Ford knows what she's talking about.

Milly33

Plus one for Gina Ford best book ever given. My sister had it for her two boys and passed it onto me.. Really annoys me when people are saying you cannot get babies into a routine so early but she shows that you can. That is if you want to follow a routine, if not then well tis what you want... With Andy did not follow it exactly as god heavens we could never wake that early but took from it what we wanted

AndyBoBandy

Milly33 wrote: »

With Andy did not follow it exactly as god heavens we could never wake that early but took from it what we wanted

The portion we read was just about getting baby to sleep through the night.

For us the 10pm - 6am was just at the beginning (after about a week of trying what the book said), and what we considered a sleep through the night for the first time (which was heavenly), but within about 2 weeks, it became a 7-8pm-8am sleep pattern, and we never looked back.

Meeeee79

Thanks everyone. Doesnt take a dummy, just not interested despite trying several different ones.

We have a well set day time routine with good length naps and scheduled feeds to keep the structure to the day.

We dont feed to sleep during day/evening. Baby gets bottle downstairs before any bedtime routine starts so doesnt need bottle to fall asleep.

I was hoping someone would say they eventually just improved but looks like we might have to try weaning off the bottles at night, seems ot be the only obvious possible solution.

Meeeee79

lazygal wrote: »

Have a six month old too, I think we were on the Sept thread?
Anyway, we moved our fella into his room last week. Had a brutal night the first night, then less brutal and now he's sleeping great. We didn't do crying it out, we lifted for cuddles then straight back into cot, repeat as needed. We cleared our weekend to ensure we could focus on this and we were wrecked for a couple of nights but the sleep payoff is worth it.

Lazygal yes Sept thread! hope you're keeping well!

Our little one is in their own room for about 5 weeks now but not much improvement. Nights are very inconsistent. We get some glimmers of hope with a night here and there of only 1 or 2 wakings but in general its several every night. Really thought it would be sorted by now!

I think we will have to try your approach although I imagine its a very long few nights! Did you pick them up and put them back down as soon as they started crying? How many nights did it take to see any difference?

Can you believe they are 6/7 months now!

shesty

I took my mother's and grandmother's advice....don't feed at night after about 12/13 weeks, bar a dream feed round 10/11pm.It works.Unfortunately toughing it out is the only way, a good bedtime routine and the same consistent approach to resettling all night long.I wouldn't get too hung up on setting feeds at specific times in a day, the baby will fall into it's own rhythm and you find you are feeding at the same times every day, which carries on for the first few years of their lives really.

To be honest if you don't feed to sleep at bedtime, he should be a bit easier.You will habe to sit it out with him at night though, does he fall asleep with a teddy or anything at bedtime??

Meeeee79

shesty wrote: »

I took my mother's and grandmother's advice....don't feed at night after about 12/13 weeks, bar a dream feed round 10/11pm.It works.Unfortunately toughing it out is the only way, a good bedtime routine and the same consistent approach to resettling all night long.I wouldn't get too hung up on setting feeds at specific times in a day, the baby will fall into it's own rhythm and you find you are feeding at the same times every day, which carries on for the first few years of their lives really.

To be honest if you don't feed to sleep at bedtime, he should be a bit easier.You will habe to sit it out with him at night though, does he fall asleep with a teddy or anything at bedtime??

Despite my best efforts, a comforter/teddy hasnt been accepted at all but I will persist. I do think you are right, if able to fall asleep at bedtime without the bottle then should be able to get through the night without needing the bottle to get back to sleep. hes just one big contradiction really

Will focus this weekend on consistency and lay off the bottle during the night and fingers crossed will see some improvements over the coming weeks. Otherwise im at a complete loss!

lazygal

I pick up and cuddle, then straight back into cot. He roared the first night and we had countless wakings. Then the second night it was one or two wakenings. We're absolute dictators about the bedtime routine as well.
We did similar with our older two and you have to set aside a few days, you'll be exhausted but it's what worked for us. He's down at 7pm, asleep within 10 mins and then sometimes awake at 4am,but I can cope with a breastfeed in our bed as we both dose off. Going to work on this when hubs is off next week.

catrionanic

My wee man is 5.5 months and sleep is very similar since he was 3.5 months. My older boy was the same. Awake every 1 or 2 hours from 11pm til morning. Sometimes we get a 3 hour stretch and I actually feel well-rested after that!

The first boy's sleep started improving at around 6.5 or 7 months, and he eventually started consistently sleeping through at 13 months. I'm hoping this boy will be the same. I tried all the tricks listed above with my first boy and nothing seemed to work. So I am just rolling with it and being gentle this time. There is a girl on Instagram called Careitout sleep consultant and I'm starting to follow her lead. She focuses a lot on daytime naps, which we are struggling with but I'm going to try to improve these first and see if night sleep will follow.

Best of luck!

Milly33

How long do you say he has been doing this waking? Just back to these leaps, at the time it feels like forever and then things settle and you think sure it was just a week.. Best of luck with all

s4uv3

Charles Ingles wrote: »

Bit of tough love.
Easier said than done I know, but Mrs ingles was fantastic and didn't crack she would let all our babies cry themselves to sleep and comfort themselves.
She would feed (breast of course) winded changed for bed than that was it till the morning.
After couple of weeks babies would settle, I'd of been softer but she was right and got full night's sleep

Christ this is so cruel
Babies are hardwired to need their parents at night, it's just biology. The poor little mites crying away and nobody coming to soothe them.

TheNibbler

Wow. A baby of 6.5 months is so young and some of the comments advising to take a hard line and leave him/her cry it out seem harsh to me. I have no experience with a bottle fed baby but if they are like a breastfed baby then night time feeds would still be expected until 1. I'm all for a good bed time routine, minimizing interaction during night wakenings etc but I think responsive parenting is also key. My strategy (which you may not be interested in) would be to feed when they wake first at night, leave them "grizzle" for 5-10 minutes at the next wakening (assuming it is within an hour or two), and then comfort if they become really upset. Hopefully you have a partner who could help with this to allow you to get some rest too. Such an approach helped with my son during the 4 month sleep regression. Hope things improve for you.

Anne_cordelia

s4uv3 wrote: »

Christ this is so cruel
Babies are hardwired to need their parents at night, it's just biology. The poor little mites crying away and nobody coming to soothe them.

This thread makes me so sad especially the post you quoted. I think people need to accept babies wake at night and it’s so awful to think of them being left to cry alone.

6.5 months is still so little. Sleep does naturally improve around this age, maybe around 7 months, in my experience.

lazygal

We never left ours to cry alone, ever. This isn't about leaving a baby crying every night and letting them get on with it. Sleep is important for the family. I have two other children who need to sleep and TBH I need to sleep to be able to be a good parent. We coslept for the first while and if needed baby will come into bed to feed still. It's not cruel to gently help a baby learn how to sleep, the same way we teach them how to breastfeed and eat solids and all the other things they need to learn.

AndyBoBandy

Yeah, we never left him to cry it out during the night, as honestly it didn't happen so much after following the Gina Ford book.

1 thing we did have which was great was a Philips (InSight HD) baby monitor that we could view on our phones, and if he ever did wake up during the night and had a little cry, we'd 1st use the phone to turn on one of the lullaby's on the baby monitor, and 98% of the time it worked and settled him back to sleep, meaning we didn't have to go into him. Of course the other 2% of the time when he heard the lullaby, he increased his volume to 11, and we had to go in to him, but that was rare, and the remote lullaby option worked so well for us.

Also, with the soother, we would always leave 2 or 3 of them in the cot in case he ever lost or couldn't find one, and we'd often see him on the monitor getting agitated, and about to wake up, but then he'd find one of the soothers and take it and go straight back to sleep.

drunkmonkey

margo321 wrote: »

i remember sleep coach blog said needing botttle to get to sleep is biggest cause of waking. she ssid cut it out with dummy or put wster in bottle. good luck its like a form of torture.

This is it in a nutshell. No bottle no dummy. Wake at night get their nappy changed and they don't be long figuring out if they wake it's nappy change time not bottle time. Also give them time to resettle but if your running in after 5 minutes your at nothing only dragging it out. If your going to be filling them with fluid before and during the night time there going to be waking just as adults do if they drink before bed or during the night.

Dummy's I detest them, it's took until number 3 before my oh caved in and we went with the no dummy route. Doing it all again none of them would have had dummy's.

lazygal

None of mine would take a soother (didn't even bother buying one for number three) and I'm glad in the long run because they can be so difficult to get them to give them up!

Charles Ingles

s4uv3 wrote: »

Christ this is so cruel
Babies are hardwired to need their parents at night, it's just biology. The poor little mites crying away and nobody coming to soothe them.

Far from cruel, you must be a new parent

venusdoom

I'm with you. My 6 month old has changed this past week and is very hard to get to sleep and to stay sleeping. Last night I was up every two hours with him. The only way I could settle him back to sleep is to reluctantly get up and walk with him. He seems to be in great form during the day and nap times. It's just night time routine that has changed. I'm hoping it's just a phase!! Please let it be a phase!

AndyBoBandy

lazygal wrote: »

None of mine would take a soother (didn't even bother buying one for number three) and I'm glad in the long run because they can be so difficult to get them to give them up!

We noticed one night our lad didn't have the soother in his mouth (about age 2), so the next day completely stopped using them, and hid them all, and it was no issue at all! We were shocked as we'd heard horror stories about weening off soothers!!

Woden

You can look at controlled timed crying also.

Meeeee79

Charles Ingles wrote: »

Far from cruel, you must be a new parent

Charles Ingles Im a new parent myself so please less of the judgement on my post.

I dont agree with your cry it out method what so ever, new parent or not, its not natural to leave a small baby to cry their heart out and eventually learn not to cry because they know nobody is coming.

My post was more so asking what peoples experiences were with babies naturally improving and when as I totally understand that a 6/7 month old baby has needs 24 hours a day.

Thanks for everyones suggestions, the nappy change one is something I had never heard!

Long weekend approaching so I think I will attempt to settle, settle and resettle for afew nights without the bottle and see how we go. Pray for me

lazygal

Best of luck. Hopefully a gentle sleep approach will do the trick.

shesty

Absolutely, I don't think anyone here is advocating letting a baby cry for hours.There is a big difference between going in and out to them every 5/10 mins when they are grizzling or talking, vs letting them cry for ages (which I just could not do myself).By sitting it out,I mean literally that...I used to sit on the landing and go in every 5/10 mins.I did let that stretch a bit longer to 15/20 mins as time passed a bit and I felt they were beginning to drop off and going in too often was disturbing them.

Small babies wake at night, it's what they do because they go in and out of deep sleep all night, as do adults.But equally, humans are hard-wired to need sleep at night, especially if he has been in the habit of sleeping.So it is a case of just readjusting his habits a bit.I always think that biologically, they do want to sleep, so you help them to do that.

greenwaving

Another perspective here because I am surprised that so many seem to be advocating variations of cio...

Babies wake frequently at night. This is completely normal and to be expected. Some more so than others. Sometimes its for hunger/thirst, sometimes for comfort, sometimes for a nappy change, sometimes because they are unwell, sometimes cos they just need a little help getting back over. Frequent waking is actually a key biological protection against SIDs, particularly in the early days. The best thing I did for my own sanity in that first year was accept that my baby would wake, sometimes a lot (teething, sleep regressions) and other times when I was lucky less so. It really did help mentally when I knew that this would happen, expected it and accepted that it was normal and not necessarily something to be fixed.

The second thing I would say is that it does get easier. A lot easier. Toddlers can still wake a times at night but it certainly becomes less frequent as they get older. So it will improve just with the age of the child.

Sleep exhaustion is obviously very tough for new mothers so I can completely understand you being at your wits end and trying "anything" to get those precious hours - I co-slept for almost all of the first year and it really helped. However, I would caution against some of the suggested sleep "solutions". Gina Ford never had her own children and her methods have been called into question as lacking any type of evidence (basically only based on her opinion no evidence based facts or biological reasoning) and have been flagged as potentially damaging by child psychologists. CIO and timed crying have been questioned for similar reasons - no evidence for them and they could cause damage. They can sometimes work (some babies respond better than others, some are better sleepers than others) but it is thought to work because the babies learn that when they cry no-one responds to them so they just learn to stop crying (not the most heart warming introduction to sleep for a young baby).

That is not to say there are not things you can do. You don't have to respond to every grizzle - sometimes babies wake cry out and quickly put themselves back to sleep again and by you going into the baby you end up actually being the one to wake them up (you learn pretty quickly to differentiate the different sounds). A good calm and predictable bed time routine helps them go to sleep. Darkness in the room helps. As does making sure the temperature is right. White noise can help for some babies as do a cuddly toy or blanket (although my baby didnt respond to a toy in bed until she was almost 18 months and slept fine without one until then). The suggestion re a lullaby is really good - we found playing this on our phones helped put her back over 90% of the time, the other 10% of the time she obviously just needed us for something and we went into her.

Your baby is still quite young that waking for food is probably still to be expected. But there are gentle ways of weaning off the bottle at night when you are both ready by gradually reducing feeds - I breastfed and was able to night wean gradually by myself from about 8 months. There are books out there that give a simple sleep guide (The Gentle Sleep book is one) and do not require you leaving your baby to cry or to go cold turkey on night feeds.

And time is the greatest help. Honestly it does get easier. Your baby won't wake in the middle of the night forever. And trust me you will miss some of those late night snuggles when they do (not all the time obviously as it feels sooo good when sleep finally comes!). They are only little for such a short time so embrace the snuggles.

Edit: I just saw your post OP. Best of luck this weekend. You will find something that will help and it will get easier. Music still really works for us. We kind of discovered it by fluke when she was upset in the car seat on the motorway and we couldn't stop. Totally calms her down and comforts her. Spotifiy Premium so we can play songs on repeat without adverts was one of my best baby buys

Charles Ingles

Meeeee79 wrote: »

Charles Ingles Im a new parent myself so please less of the judgement on my post.

I dont agree with your cry it out method what so ever, new parent or not, its not natural to leave a small baby to cry their heart out and eventually learn not to cry because they know nobody is coming.

My post was more so asking what peoples experiences were with babies naturally improving and when as I totally understand that a 6/7 month old baby has needs 24 hours a day.

Thanks for everyones suggestions, the nappy change one is something I had never heard!

Long weekend approaching so I think I will attempt to settle, settle and resettle for afew nights without the bottle and see how we go. Pray for me

I wasn't being judgemental at all. I was called cruel.

Digs

Excellent post greenwavering +1 to all you said!
I took a much gentler approach in that I stopped tying myself in knots trying to “fix” sleep on my 2nd and 3rd babies, once I accepted and realised all of this was normal and would pass and we’re all the happier for it.

Best of luck OP, I hope this weekend goes well!

Anne_cordelia

Digs wrote: »

Excellent post greenwavering +1 to all you said!
I took a much gentler approach in that I stopped tying myself in knots trying to “fix” sleep on my 2nd and 3rd babies, once I accepted and realised all of this was normal and would pass and we’re all the happier for it.

Best of luck OP, I hope this weekend goes well!

Agreed!

Milly33

I dont think Ingalls meant it that way either OP, it is very true though that while it is very annoying but the statement is true you are so causious with the first born then after a few months your like yeah your grand...

That is another one do you change the nappy at night or do you leave it till they wake in the morning. All kids are differant but we used to change herself at around 12 every night (tried the dream feed idea and sure twas like waking the Antichrist) but when you went to change the nappy she would barely stir and then stay settled for the night...


Everyone has a different opinion on what to do, think tis harsh to call people cruel for letting their little ones cry for a few mins, and also then for people who dont want to let the little one cry well that is what they choose, so no rights and wrongs just think about what works for ye and the baby best of luck..

Would ye think of settle the baby also in the room before giving the last feed? This was a big thing with GFord, have the baby ready for bed in gro bag etc whatever you use, turn off all the lights, and then give the feed.. They are nice and sleepy and just ready to be put in the cot. Black out blinds are a great idea also if the room can be bright...

irishgrover

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There would be a very significant clash of cultures imho. Apple is very much about brand over produce ... It has always followed form over function, control over creativity and profit above all else. Meanwhile over at Tesla it's the cult of imagination and possibility.....sending roadsters into space and whatnot......I can't imagine apple would have much interest in that....
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Milly33

haha how did that get in here

s4uv3

Charles Ingles wrote: »

Far from cruel, you must be a new parent

Nope. I've been at this a good while now. Hence my comment. Don't assume things you clearly know nothing about.

Jurgen The German

Have you tried swaddling OP and having baba on their side?

Our second is now 8 months and she has been sleeping through the night since she was two months old without a night feed.

Our first used to get a dream feed around 11 or so but this one never really did.

Purple Lemons

My little buddy is 7 months this week and fingers crossed learning to get himself through the night. We've had one wake and feed back to sleep Mon, Tues, Wed night and Thurs, Fri he slept 6:45pm-7.10am, 7pm-6:30am. I'm probably gonna be thrashed for admitting this but I always fed him back to sleep, as I did with my now nearly 3yo. If you even made eye contact throughout the night they'd be all giggles and smiles looking to get up and play so I'm like a silent ninja..lob the bottle in and run back out. I even left em cry for 5 minutes the odd time to see could they get themselves down without help. Call me cruel if ye'd like but they're happy kids and I'm a happier mother for being rested. Hope you do get some sleep OP and do whatever works for you and your baba

shesty

To the OP - I believe Lucy Wolfe's book has some very good guidelines for helping babies to sleep.I've heard it recommended highly and her articles are always very good and common sense.

OctoberMammy

Finding this post very helpful, especially greenwaving's post. My little guy is 6 months and going through a similarly turbulent time. He used to go off at bedtime no problem at all, now it's a battle to get him down for naps and he's waking more frequently. We started him on solids a couple of weeks ago so I'm thinking it might be that, and/or just an age thing. Have to remind myself that it's just a phase! I've also got into the bad habit of rocking him to sleep because it's the only thing that works right now. The whole sleep thing is a huge anxiety trigger for me, there is so much conflicting information and advice out there. We are just trying to take each day as it comes, but easier said than done when you dread the nights!

Charles Ingles

OSI wrote: »

I don't want get up on your back too much because other's have already done so, but I remember questioning my wife on this when our son was having turbulent nights as she works in the psychology and behavioural field and she assured me there are mountains of research to show that the CIO it method can be damaging to baby's development, future mental health (can lead to increased incidences of anxiety later in life) and damages the trust bond between baby and parent. There's also a danger of the caregiver becoming desensitised to baby's cries for help and missing cues to something being amiss elsewhere at other times.

Hi to be honest it wouldn't have been my chosen method and with first two children I had many rows with my wife due to me intervening and comforting the children,
But having seen the results I concluded my wife was right as she mostly is.
To be honest gave up on thread because of the hassle but thanks for thoughtful post.
I always hated to hear children crying but once my wife stuck to her guns after a couple of weeks the children were extremely settled at nighttime.
I've four grown up healthy children thank god and hopefully I haven't offended anybody with my experiences

mrcheez

I don't have any kids so this question is more of a curiosity, but why don't people try earplugs?

I wear earplugs when I'm on a plane if surrounded by toddlers and the volume is reduced down to a much more tolerable level, but I would have thought that a rested parent is far better for the child than a parent who may be incapacitated due to stress/exhaustion?

If you are stressed or exhausted you might make a mistake that puts the child in danger.

I understand it might be because you want to listen out if the baby is in danger during the night, so perhaps if you are a single parent then maybe you'd have to be "all ears" but with couples I'd imagine each parent could take turns being the one "who gets to wear earplugs that night" ?

pwurple

Earplugs are fine when it's not your own children, and you are not their carer. The idea is that you support eachother as parents and support the babies growth. You can get anything from failure to thrive, cognitive impairment, or even death from ignoring a baby. We took turns for the waking. 12am , 3am, 6am...

Usually the baby doesn't scream for hours, just until you come in and settle them down with whatever the need is. If they are screaming for hours, there's something wrong, you need to take some action, not pop earplugs in.

I'm not a fan of crying it out, because you can easily miss something, it's taking a risk, deliberately neglecting a babies cries. Illness, or an arm being caught somewhere can get missed if you're ignoring them. I understand it, sure... especially if overwhelmed with a lot of children like in CharlesIngles case above, or at exhaustion limit. But it wouldn't be the gold standard, you know?