6 month sleep regression??!

[Reidfidleir]

So my little guy has been sleeping through the night from six weeks old and we passed by four and five months beautifully with no regression. He went from 1030-630 to now from 830-630.
Since about when he turned six months though he's been waking up during the night. Not because he's hungry. Looking for pacifier or just waking up. He'll wake at 230 then sometimes 330 and 430 am and then will wake to feed at 545. I just feel like I get no sleep from 230am on.
He'll pick up his legs too and slam them down which keeps himself awake.
Soooo has anybody skipped a four month but gotten rudely surprised with a 5/6/7 month regression??
Thanks...

 

[amy2boys]

yes, my dd always slept great from a newborn, slept 7pm-7am waking once for 5min feed and straight back to sleep....for the past 10 days she is waking at 11.30pm/12 for feed then at 3am/4am and wide awake from them! I am so drained. I have tried more or less daytime sleep with no effects. She is not hungry as will not feed. The only change is she had major separation anxiety during the day from me. I have no idea what to do about it. Sorry, I dont have any answers for you.

 

[Reidfidleir]

Well I feel better that I'm not alone. Same here. More or less sleep during the day or going to bed later has zero affect.

 

[cmarie33]

Yep. And I'm back at work now and it's killing me! I've been feeding back to sleep but going to have to stop it!

 

[1stTimeOct.12]

Did your baby's go through the amours 4month sleep regression?


Lo is 5 months right now and we just came out of the 4 month sleep regression. I don't want round two!

 

[wantingno.2]

Omg same it's killing me off, she's slept through since 12wks now she's started waking 1 or 2 times a night, been going on for a few weeks now. Can't cope

 

[mellyboo]

Lol my 6 month old wakes up like too many times lol wish I was Joking been like this since the sleep regression lol

 

[Noelle610]

There's a blip at 6 months which is usually related to wonder week 26.

In your situation, you might try an earlier bedtime - 8:30pm is a tad late for a 6 month old. It might help curb the wakings if they're the result of LO being overtired. You could also consider ditching the pacifier if LO is waking for it frequently.

 

[Tigerlilyb]

At 10 months this "blip" is still plaguing us She used to be such a great sleeper, I was so angry when it first started happening! Now it's just normal and exhausting, but getting better slowly.

 

[Reidfidleir]

Last week (26 weeks) he would go to bed at 730. This week though when I tried he would fuss and cry and not sleep until 830. So back to 830 it is. I also started solids last week.

 

[polaris]

DS didn't have a sleep regression at four months (his sleep was pretty rubbish until four months and actually improved when he turned four months) but he did have about a month of disturbed sleep at six months, coinciding with starting solids. Just randomly waking up during the night for no obvious reason. It lasted about four weeks and then improved again.

 

[Shadowy Lady]

ya babies are just unpredictable and that has been my biggest lesson learned. Mine sttn from around 9 weeks, then regressed for a bit. Since then it's been up and down (her max wakeup count for the past 3 months has been 2 pre night though, most the time one).

She started sttn at 6 months again actually, but last night she was up from 3:30 am to 5:00 God knows why. Not hungry, not in pain, hasn't pooped....waaaa!!

Babies are a mystery to me. I never believe it when someone tells me their baby sttn their entire first year. It's just impossible as there's always something :/

 

[Reidfidleir]

Another exercise in futility... Trying to sleep last night. He kept me up from 2 am. It's now 6 am. Now he's finally asleep I am wide awake. (Whereas he really should be awake to eat now).
When he wakes and then settles down the hedgehog keeps me awake (running in her wheel). If its not him then she wakes me up and when she's done then he wakes up again!
Las night was the worst ever. Escalated into full blown crying and refusing to settle. Hubby ended up grabbing 2oz of milk from fridge and feeding him. Then it was another hour of crying before he finally went to sleep.
We tried everything. Rocking cradle. Putting paci back in mouth. Feeding. Putting in bed with us. Tapping face and talking sternly.
I'm just so frustrated. I do NOT function well without sleep. I need like 9 hours of sleep a night.
I held myself back last night but when I'm sleep deprived I have no patience and I get very very angry when prevented from sleeping.
I'm just scared that if he keeps this up I may lash out. I've done ok so far but this has been a miserable two weeks. I maybe got two hours of sleep last night. Maybe.
I'm going to try putting hedgehog in the entry area and see if that helps. (We basically have one big open space. No walls or bedrooms which makes things really tough right now. )