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ready2go
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6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
DD is BF and just started eating solids about 2 weeks or so ago.
When I put her to bed around 7, she is tired. She wakes up 45 min/an hour later screaming. We've started Ferber CIO a few times to get her back to sleep but I'm not sure we are doing the right thing. Her next ped appointment isn't for 2 more weeks so I thought I'd ask all of you BTDT moms.
Is her bedtime too early? When she wakes up around 7:45, should I keep her up a little longer & try again later to put her down (like 9ish) rather than having her immediately go back to sleep? My older DD i almost 7 and I don't remember having this issue. Is an early bedtime appropriate for 6 months?
Thank you!
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nraboni
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6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
I am in your situation too. My DS is also 6 months old. He takes two good naps during the day. Then around 6:30p-7pm he would get tired so we would put him in the swing for a 20 minute power nap.
After the power nap, we would keep him up until 8:30p-9p and give him a bottle before that bedtime. He fought bedtime and just screamed for at least 20 mins before going to sleep.
These last couple of weeks I changed the evening routine.
He gets fed dinner at 6:30p and then we do everything we can to keep him occupied and happy until about 7:45p-8p. At that time we give him is nighttime bottle and put him to bed. He doesn't fight it as much - maybe 5-10 minutes.
But he is still not sleeping through the night and wakes up once to eat but goes right back to sleep.
Message edited 1/5/2016 12:37:25 PM.
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| Posted 1/5/16 12:36 PM |
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JDubs
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Re: 6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
Posted by ready2go
Is her bedtime too early? When she wakes up around 7:45, should I keep her up a little longer & try again later to put her down (like 9ish) rather than having her immediately go back to sleep? !
This is what we do with our 6 month old DD. Around 6pm is what we call her "witching hour" where she whines and is tired. We put her down for a little bit but wake her up by 730 and she usually stays up until about 9 until she starts whining again and we put her down (we give her a bottle before putting her down though). She does fuss a little and whine when we put her down but eventually falls asleep. With my DD its a crapshoot, some nights she will wake up in the middle of the night and other nights she will STTN.
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| Posted 1/5/16 12:47 PM |
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MrsT809
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6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
Uggh, dd2 is 13 months and isn't very different. I put her and dd1 down together around 815. She'll sleep around an hour and then wakes up. I pick her up for a cuddle and song and then put her on her belly and wait a few minutes for her to fall asleep. Then she'll sleep a few more hours before I just bring her into my bed for the rest of the night. I have no idea how to break this habit. She falls asleep fine, doesn't nurse to sleep or anything but she just won't stay asleep.
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| Posted 1/5/16 2:59 PM |
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bunnyluck
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6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
My DS was doing that for a while. He just stopped on his own at 9 months. I have no answers I honestly think sleeping and STTN is developmental. They do it when they're ready. We tried EVERYTHING in the past, at 8.5-9 months he just did it on his own like magic.
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| Posted 1/5/16 3:35 PM |
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ready2go
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Re: 6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
Posted by bunnyluck
My DS was doing that for a while. He just stopped on his own at 9 months. I have no answers I honestly think sleeping and STTN is developmental. They do it when they're ready. We tried EVERYTHING in the past, at 8.5-9 months he just did it on his own like magic.
When he did it on his own, do you mean you put him down early and he stayed asleep?
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| Posted 1/5/16 4:21 PM |
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PitterPatter11
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6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
My DS didn't start sleeping better until 12 months. I use the term better loosely!
The only way we could get him to sleep more than 2-3 hours was CIO at 6 months. He seemed to regress every 2 months or so due to illness or teething.
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| Posted 1/5/16 4:28 PM |
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NYCGirl80
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Re: 6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
Every baby is different. My son went to bed late at 6 months, like 9 or 10pm.
My daughter likes going to sleep at 7:30pm, but then I give her a final bottle around 8:30 or 9pm. Sometimes she wakes up for it, sometimes I get her up for it. She's 7.5 months old.
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cowgirlkate
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Re: 6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
Sounds counterintuitive but maybe try an earlier bedtime if you can. Maybe she is just too tired by 7 pm? All of mine were in bed by 630 at that age and it seemed to work out really well for them. My younger ones turn 1 next week and they are in bed by 630 pm and sleep until 615-630 am.
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| Posted 1/5/16 8:13 PM |
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bunnyluck
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Re: 6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
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Posted by bunnyluck
My DS was doing that for a while. He just stopped on his own at 9 months. I have no answers I honestly think sleeping and STTN is developmental. They do it when they're ready. We tried EVERYTHING in the past, at 8.5-9 months he just did it on his own like magic.
When he did it on his own, do you mean you put him down early and he stayed asleep?
Pretty much. We put him down at his normal bed time which is between 7-7:30 and we didn't hear from him again until 7am. Literally, just happened like magic and he's been doing it ever since.
I woke up a million times that night to check him / monitor because I was nervous he wasn't waking his normal every two hours.
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MrsW326
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Re: 6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
I would try an earlier bedtime. My DD was going to bed at 6:45 at one point.
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| Posted 1/5/16 9:55 PM |
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drpepper318
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Re: 6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
Posted by bunnyluck
Posted by ready2go
Posted by bunnyluck
My DS was doing that for a while. He just stopped on his own at 9 months. I have no answers I honestly think sleeping and STTN is developmental. They do it when they're ready. We tried EVERYTHING in the past, at 8.5-9 months he just did it on his own like magic.
When he did it on his own, do you mean you put him down early and he stayed asleep?
Pretty much. We put him down at his normal bed time which is between 7-7:30 and we didn't hear from him again until 7am. Literally, just happened like magic and he's been doing it ever since.
I woke up a million times that night to check him / monitor because I was nervous he wasn't waking his normal every two hours.
This sounds like a dream come true.
My ds (8 mo old) wakes up a couple of times at night still & I'm so tired. He doesn't stay up long (mostly just to eat) but ugh, I wish he'd just sleep straight through.
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| Posted 1/5/16 11:59 PM |
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jessnbrian
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6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
I don't think I would try an earlier bedtime. For us we did what many others did, let him have a later nap (I tried to make this around 5ish) and kept it short. He was then down for bed around 8:30/9 and would stay down until 7/8 the next morning. Once he was on solids we tried to get him into a 3 meal 2 snack a day schedule.... At 14 months the only nights he doesn't STTN a solid 11-12 hours are when he is sick (like now) and that is because either coughing or pain wake him up.
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| Posted 1/6/16 7:26 AM |
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ready2go
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Re: 6 month old/Sleeping Situation Help Needed
Thank you everyone for your advice!
Of course, last night, my plan was to put her down around 6:30/7, and when she woke up, keep her up until 9, nurse her again and put her down.
She went to sleep and didn't wake up until 11. And.....woke up like 3-4 more times during the night (usually it's once, maybe twice).
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