https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:25:23 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-awakefussy-from-4am#post-2783029 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:03:03 +0000 antonia27 2783029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: Thank you for you reply!! I don't find pacifiers to be bad at night -- my 3 year old used them and they were a life saver for him. However, I can tell it is a real sleep crutch for my younger son, so I am trying to wean him off it a bit before he can then put it in on his own. Unfortunately he doesn't like the wubanub otherwise that would be a good option. </p> <p>I totally agree with you on the fact that the crying is more a sign of not being ready to wake up than it is anything else...Thats exactly how my older son was. </p> <p>The 4am waking is tough for us right now because I can tell he starts by being half awake and happy and then goes full fledge awake, and then it's impossible to get him back down. He starts happy, then it goes to whine, then it goes to cry if I don't respond. So I feel like by stopping it in its tracks by holding him, it helps, but really I am just doing myself a disservice. Fingers crossed this coming night/morning are better if I let him sleep in his crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-awakefussy-from-4am#post-2783022 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:45:24 +0000 agold 2783022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No advice, but commiseration as well. I hate the early morning wakes up. I don't know why you think pacifiers at night are terrible. I put like 3-4 wubanubs in my girl's crib and she's 14 months. I didn't co-sleep with her, but I did move her out of my room at 6 months. I find that when she wakes up crying, she's not ready to wake up yet. I did a little bit of cry it out to help her with sleep training. It was not at all painful like I thought it would be. Today she woke up crying early, standing up in her crib, so I knew she wasn't ready to be up. She cried for maybe 2 minutes and put herself back down to sleep for another 50 minutes and got up at her normal wake up time. I don't know how you can let your baby cry a little when he's in your bed with you. Good luck with how ever you choose to handle it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-awakefussy-from-4am#post-2782967 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:59:57 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2782967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No advice but commiseration. I remember between 4-6 am were a total crap shoot for my son for quite a long time. I think I read something somewhere that said it had something to do with their sleep cycles and particularly early morning is difficult for them to get back to sleep. We never sleep trained and thankfully by about 9 months things started to sort themselves out and our son was a champion sleeper from 12 months onwards.</p> <p>Also I personally would not worry about the pacifier. Just do what you gotta do. We let DS have his til 2 yrs old and it was fine. Sleep time only from about 12-14 months old. </p> <p>Whenever we started to lose our minds due to sleep fluctuations, DW and I would split shifts so each person got 4-5 hrs uninterrupted. I would stay up till midnight or 1-2am depending and she could sleep from 7-8 pm and onwards. It saved us (and we didn't have a toddler then!)</p> <p>ETA: DW and I would sleep in separate rooms with earplugs depending on who's shift it was. Then we would bring the monitor to the other person when it was time to switch. Maybe your DH could handle the toddler wake ups in another room or stay up later for a bit to give you a break? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-awakefussy-from-4am#post-2782875 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 03:02:12 +0000 antonia27 2782875@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>​Hi all,</p> <p>My son will be 6 months old in 10 days, and these last couple of weeks sleep has been all over the place, but overall not great. My older son was a great sleeper so having a hard time with this little guy. Ollie is EBF and cosleeps with us - (sleeps all naps in crib and has slept a couple of nights in crib but usually just in dock-a-tot on top of covers next to us) has a three nap schedule, ((wake 630, nap 8:45-9:30 (cannot stretch this longer!), nap 11:30-12:15 (wakes and he can’t fall asleep on own so I rock him back to sleep till 1:15), nap 3:30-4:00pm, nurse upon waking, nurse 5:45, start bedtime after 6:10, he’s asleep between 6:30-7pm)) but is very fussy early morning from 4am to where I now hold him in my arms and let him sleep till 6-6:30am. I dreamfeed him at 10pm (probably too early but he usually wakes out of habit and has hard time self soothing) and then wakes at 1:30am, 4am and then he’s half awake and fussy rest of morning till 6am. I feed him when he wakes at night even though I know I shouldn't but it makes it easier to get him back to sleep.</p> <p>I haven’t truly started sleep training yet because I was waiting till 6 mos. I’ve gotten him to fall asleep without pacifier (through CIO) and only a lovey but I’m terrible and give him pacifier at night :meh: .... to make matters more complicated, he’s been pooping at night in the last two weeks (eating too much?) and our 3 year old is having terrible nightmares and has been coming in to us (luckily not usually waking baby but me!) I’m slowly losing my mind being up from 4am and awake so many times per night. I’ve read almost every baby sleep book out there so I know most of the techniques, just don’t know which to try in this case?</p> <p>Thankful for all the advice I can get!! </p>