https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 06 May 2026 12:21:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1042025 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:54:37 +0000 autumn865 1042025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted 12 because we would put her down at 6:30pm and she would wake at 6:30am but we also at that time did a 10:30pm dream feed and a 3am night feed inbetween. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1042014 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:33:01 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1042014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>charlie was an early riser until we really limited his naps. i've always woken both kids though when they sleep too long. they reorganize their sleep eventually if you limit their daytime naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1041934 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 01:11:44 +0000 googly-eyes 1041934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Purpledaisy: I only have one LO but did the same as @Mrs. High Heels! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1041745 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 20:04:36 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1041745@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Purpledaisy: I've always woken my sleeping babies if they sleep too long! In the beginning it was to avoid day/night confusion and then later on it was to preserve night sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1041678 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:24:24 +0000 shopaholic 1041678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Purpledaisy: Glad that sort of works! I've tried doing the reverse - waking from sleeping earlier - but it has never garnered more hours of naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1041482 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:56:46 +0000 Purpledaisy 1041482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So yesterday she only napped for two hours during the day and she slept last night from 9:45pm to 10:30am with one morning feeding where she was up from 7-8. I think I'm going to have to limit her naps. Even though waking a sleeping baby just seems wrong! Lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040896 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:33:30 +0000 Purpledaisy 1040896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Of course the day that I post this she is a horrible napper and has been fussy ALL day! But maybe it will improve her night sleep tonight. Trying to look on the bright side! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040886 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:21:07 +0000 shopaholic 1040886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! Those are some monster naps! Probably why she isn't sleeping as long at night? I've read at this age, they should be sleeping 15-16 hours total in 24 hours. So sounds like she is almost there! </p> <p>She usually sleeps ~12 hours, but often has 1 night waking (after ~8 hours). I actually don't mind that waking, because I can feed her, she goes back to sleep and then I usually get more than 12 hours). FWIW, my LOs naps SUCK! 20 min. average. I think she's napped a grand total of 83 min. today. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040747 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:56:19 +0000 NavyRN2012 1040747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO will be 6 months on Sunday and sleeps from 7:30 to 6-7 am. She sleeps ~2.5 hrs during the day. And her night sleep is straight through. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040638 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:26:26 +0000 JerricaBenton 1040638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 6 months and sleeps a pretty consistent 10 hrs per night and about 3 hours of napping during the day. She seems well rested and not overtired. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040430 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:58:11 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1040430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Purpledaisy: that's pretty amazing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040392 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:34:21 +0000 autumnlove 1040392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mostly 12 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040387 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:31:17 +0000 Purpledaisy 1040387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. High Heels: yeah her naps are kind of crazy. She's always been a long napper. But it actually really limits what we can do during the day because she needs to nap or else she's sooo cranky! I would love to get some of those nap hours transferred to her night sleep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040316 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:44:02 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1040316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Between 11 and 12 at night with about 3.5 of naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040306 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:41:04 +0000 birdofafeather 1040306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>R has been doing 12 hours overnight with one wakeup in between </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040256 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:21:30 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1040256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Purpledaisy: The total hours of sleep is good, but I think the naps are too long (6 hours total!)... so it's affecting the night sleep. At 6 months, they should be getting about 3-4 hours total for naps, and about 11 hours at night. So around 15 hours of total sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040243 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:17:07 +0000 googly-eyes 1040243@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think dd was sleeping more like 10-11 hrs but given your lo's long naps it might be enough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040200 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:09:27 +0000 Mrs. Blue 1040200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They've been doing (minus F's weird night wakings lately) is going to sleep between 7-7:15 and waking up for the around 6:30 or 7, but with one wake up for a bottle sometime between 3-5:00. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040178 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:05:01 +0000 Adira 1040178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Purpledaisy: Xander usually has trouble falling back asleep after his 5:00 a.m. feeding, but he's chill enough that I can just leave him in the crib while I get ready for work, and he usually EVENTUALLY falls back asleep. Sometimes it takes 30-40 minutes though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040170 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:03:57 +0000 cascademom 1040170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>9 hours sounds decent, but should be closer to 10-11 hours. Once we sleep trained, LO sleeps about 11 hours a night. Before sleep training, it was a jumbled 7-8 at best. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040163 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:02:14 +0000 edelweiss 1040163@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>between 10.5 and 11 hours. while 9 might be on the lower end of the spectrum compared to others, it's not terribly low and sounds like she's getting very ample naps. if you would like her night sleep to be longer, though, would you consider shortening her naps? maybe each could be 2 hours? however if things are working for you guys as is, i wouldn't mess with it unless you would like her to sleep longer at night as opposed to having longer naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040095 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:50:05 +0000 Rubies 1040095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted 12 (6pm-6am) however, at 6 months DD was still waking twice a night for a feed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040091 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:48:40 +0000 Purpledaisy 1040091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: this is all together. She *usually* doesn't wake up during the night. But I've tried feeding her in the morning and getting her back to sleep but it never works. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040026 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:35:19 +0000 Adira 1040026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is this total, or just a stretch before eating?</p> <p>Xander sleeps 7:30 - 9:00, then 9:30 - 5:00, then 6:00 - 7:00, so total he gets about 10 hours, but the longest stretch he's ever given me is 8 hours straight. Hope that makes sense! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040024 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:35:11 +0000 lolabee 1040024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wish I could give some insight but we co-bed so it skews things a tad. I have no where near 9 hours ;) dream feeds happen... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1040016 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:33:22 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1040016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted 10, although it can be 11. He sleeps from about 7:40 or 8 to 6:15-6:30. But I also do a dream feed at 11. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-hours-of-night-sleep-for-6-month-old#post-1039981 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:25:39 +0000 Purpledaisy 1039981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't get my 6 month old to sleep longer than about 9 hours at night. Even if I put her to bed earlier she just wakes up earlier. She is taking two 2-3 hour naps during the day. Is 9 hours normal? I feel like it should be more. </p>