https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:06:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-fix-my-6-month-olds-sleep#post-2741675 Tue, 30 May 2017 10:53:54 +0000 maddyz 2741675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For mine it was but then just turned into habit. Babies are all so different! I thought i was never going to get out of the 6 months old nursing a million times a night phase with LO2 but we did. Sometimes I think it doesn't matter what I do, one day they are just ready.... good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-fix-my-6-month-olds-sleep#post-2741667 Tue, 30 May 2017 10:42:21 +0000 catlady 2741667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@maddyz: Thanks. I don't think it matters if we rock or let him cry it out (actually, when we rock, it takes far longer for him to go back to sleep, which is why we started cry it out in the first place). So you think he is hungry? I guess I don't understand how he could possibly be hungry like 1 hr after I feed him. He gets plenty during the day and hasn't changed his eating habits from before, when he used to sleep 7-8 hrs straight before eating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-fix-my-6-month-olds-sleep#post-2741647 Tue, 30 May 2017 10:16:13 +0000 maddyz 2741647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a 6 month old who nursed a lot at night. We cut it down by making sure he was really eating enough during the day first for a few days and then I would dream feed when I went to bed at 10:30pm and not feed him again until after 2am. That meant that if he woke before 2am DH would rock him back to sleep. He pretty quickly got used to 10:30pm 2:30am and 5:30am nursing. But I had to make sure he was really nursing enough during the day or taking enough from the bottle, he was really holding out for night time. With both my kids I didn't want to cry it out and found that not nursing but still comforting worked to break the wake up habit. But kids are different. Also, I can't do it because they just get super pissed I am not nursing them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-fix-my-6-month-olds-sleep#post-2741639 Tue, 30 May 2017 09:58:18 +0000 catlady 2741639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 6 months old and his sleep has always been up and down but I had hoped it would settle by now. Unfortunately, he had a growth spurt about 3 weeks ago and his sleep got really terrible again. Pre-growth spurt, he would wake 1-2x to eat, then go right back down. The growth spurt was about a week long, and he would eat 3-4x but still go back down easily. Then he started waking more frequently and it was harder to get him back to sleep. It got to the point where he was waking about 6x per night.</p> <p>It seemed like a classic nursing to sleep association, but I was already putting him to bed awake to start the night, so we moved his final nursing session to before his bath to give about 20 min of time between nursing and bedtime. He was totally fine with that change (still goes to sleep on his own without a peep) and it didn't help the wakings.</p> <p>So we tried using cry it out for the night wakings, except for 2 times when I would nurse him. The first 3 nights, he woke 6x and cried 5-10 min each time. Nights 4-5 were great and he was basically back to normal. Night 6 got a little worse again, and last night he was up 7x and his crying was worse then ever. Plus he was up at 4:30am the past few days.</p> <p>Is this an extinction burst? Or am I missing something? He is not sick or teething, and I don't think he needs to nurse more. His naps are crappy and short but he goes down awake for those too. He still takes 3 or 4 per day.</p> <p>The only other thing DH can think of is that we sometimes bring him into our bed in the morning when he is up super early (like 5am). We don't want to use cry it out at that time of day so DH wants to just get up with him if he's awake then. But I'd prefer he sleep later and not learn to start the day so early.</p> <p>Hoping to see if anyone has thoughts or advice. I feel like there is literally nothing else I can do to help him at this point. </p>