https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:55:23 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-365785 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:35:07 +0000 regberadaisy 365785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm convinced it's mental leap 5.</p> <p>M's been sitting up a lot better this week. Pretty much unassisted for a good 2-3 mins before bobbling then she sits herself back up. Then of course there was the 2 teeth last week!</p> <p>I'm just going to ride it out. So far 4 months was WAY worse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-365736 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:46:27 +0000 cvbee 365736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: thanks! I am starting to think it might be something like that. Al night long when I'd pick him up out of the crib, I'd walk him back and forth in the room and he would fall right asleep: something he usually never does with night-wakings (usually cries and fights me in my arms til I feed him). So I guess he just needs some extra Mommy time. By the 2nd half of the night, I figured it might be easier for us to co-bed. He still woke up a lot, but many of those times I was able to settle him by rubbing his chest or patting his belly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-365473 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:32:12 +0000 Mrs. Bee 365473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>he could be working on a major milestone like sitting up or crawling. olive just started real crawling and standing in her crib this week, and before that her sleep was really messed up! now it's back to normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-365455 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:13:02 +0000 mom2b2agirl 365455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cvbee: oats!!! I gave oats 3 times between 4 months and again last week (lo is 5.5 months). She threw up all 3 times and it wasnt until this last time that i realized its probably the oats.<br /> Cut it out and see!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-365337 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:40:56 +0000 cvbee 365337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Update: He's still waking up a million times already. I nursed him first wake-up, but the 2nd one (only 20-30 minutes after 1st) I went to carry him downstairs, and he threw up and then immediately fell back asleep. </p> <p>Tummy issue?</p> <p>I guess I can try not giving oats tomorrow and see how that goes? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-365044 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:57:29 +0000 cvbee 365044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: Sorry that you're here too. So frustrating. I know you don't CIO, so I'll be anxious to hear how your progress goes. And if I CIO and yours snaps out of it soon without a CIO I will feel slightly guilty. But I will deal with it so long as the sleep gets better.</p> <p>I made a decision: he gets one more night of 'the usual', but with our old diaper system, and then if things aren't better, Monday night is CIO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-364846 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:15:56 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 364846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am with Zippy.</p> <p>LO is 5.5 months and never sleeps longer than three hours at night. This has been going on for a week. </p> <p>I don't have any advice, just commiserations. You are not alone! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-364798 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:26:04 +0000 cvbee 364798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: How interesting about the 6 month sleep regression. Woot.<br /> And It's okay to say CIO. Ha. I did it and it fixed the 4 month sleep regression like a lightswitch. I would do it again, and maybe it won't be as hard, but I think I might still need to try 'other things' first, like I did last time. But I'm not going to let it last for 5 weeks. I must give myself a deadline or something. CIO is such a head-trip for Mommy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-364793 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:22:22 +0000 loveisstrange 364793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have heard a lot of people say there is a 2nd sleep regression at 6 months. I want to say at 5.5 months C hit a BAD spurt where she was up every 3 hours, every night for about a month. </p> <p>I hate to say... she didn't get over it until we did CIO. But, the silver lining being that she went from that to STTN, 6:15-8:30am straight through. She's a different baby now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-6-month-old#post-364789 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:19:05 +0000 cvbee 364789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Long post. Sorry. I am 3 days into what feels like a sleep regression. LO is 6 months old. I really don't think it is teething nor a growth spurt. </p> <p>For the last 3 nights, he has woken up every 2 hours at longest stretch, and 10 minutes at shortest stretch. Prior to this, we have had more than a month of him sleeping quite regularly (3 wake-ups-to-nurse in a 13 hour stretch of sleep). Like a lightswitch it turned to this million-wake-up thing. </p> <p>Here are the things that are new:</p> <p>1) new kind of cloth diaper (yes, I will try to go back to the other one tonight, but maybe that's not it)</p> <p>2) immunizations (well, can't do much about that, but don't really think that's the cause...he didn't really have a reaction to it)</p> <p>3) nap schedule got thrown-off (immunization appointment ran 2-plus hours behind and LO ended up SUPER late for 1st nap, and then after that we had 2 hours of driving, twice that day, so his whole schedule got messed up that day, 3 days ago)</p> <p>4) he's been taking a double-nap in the morning ever since then (because he is tired, he wakes up, babbles and I leave him so he can sleep more, which he does.........but maybe I'm doing the wrong thing as this is yet again adding to an 'unusual' pattern.</p> <p>5) he's fighting the afternoon nap, and actually the 2nd day I let him stay up all afternoon, foolishly thinking that maybe he really didn't need it because of the double-morning nap and because maybe I thought if he was really tired he could sleep at night. YEsterday I made him take that 2nd nap, and it took me an hour to get him to sleep (very unusual) and it STILL didn't cure our night-time problem. </p> <p>6) 4 days of oats introduced into the solids-eating schedule (but I don't see any other reaction from it?)</p> <p>Since we're just 3 days into this issue, I want to fix it before it becomes a habit. This happened at the 4 month sleep regression and I just put up with it for 5 weeks or so until I finally 'cured' it with 2 nights of CIO bedtime, but I really don't want to CIO again if possible. </p> <p>What should I do? I feel like I want to change everything but the scientist in me knows I should change one thing at a time, but I also don't want to drag this out any longer than I need to. I don't want him to CIO, for example, if he might be unwell or uncomfortable. </p>