Help? 6 month old quit sleeping through the night?

Question

My little girl is getting ready to turn 6 months old, she has always slept through the night and woke up around 7 am. Now for a week she is getting up at 3 am to eat, then she won't go back to sleep for 2 hours. Is this due to a growing spurt?

Answer 1

Try feeding her more solids than the bottle before bedtime. It will keep her tummy fuller longer. Then try less naps during the day...so when she is out for the night, she may rest longer...

Answer 2

I really wouldn't say it is a growth spurt. Maybe she is teething. The biggest mistake was feeding her. Now whenever she wakes up she will want to eat.

Try feeding her cereal/food an hour before she goes to sleep. Then right at bed time, nurse her to fill her up.

Also try tending to her right away but not taking her out of her crib. Then let her fuss for five minutes, check on her (but don't take her out). Keep repeating this (first 5 min. then 10 min., then 15 min., etc). She will learn. It will take time but she will learn to trust that you are there and that she can fall back asleep on her own.

By the way, I am the mother of two. A 25 month old boy and a 6 month old girl.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Get used to it! it may be a growth spurt, but it could be anything. Babies are ever changeable, and they go through weird little stages all along. After she wakes at 3am, feed her, then put her back in her bed. If she cries a bit, comfort her, but keep the lights off, and don't talk to her. Make sure she understands that the middle of the night parties are over! Good luck!

Answer 4

We had the comparable undertaking. She became drowsing great by out the evening and then suddenly at around 6 months she started waking up. We theory perchance a strengthen spurt and can feed her and rock her decrease back to sleep. We have been incorrect. i assume at around six months toddlers start to become greater conscious for the duration of partial wakening at evening and comprehend that their environment have replaced from while they went to sleep, (mom no longer conserving her anymore.) Feeding her bottles merely complicated it and made an added step in correcting it. First we took away the evening time feeding one ounce a evening. Then all of us started the lots dreaded and each bit as terrible as imagined crying it out area. besides the indisputable fact that when screaming it out she might stay asleep something of the evening. After approximately 8 nights she might end crying with in 5 minutes of being placed in her crib and be asleep with on quarter-hour. We used the Dr Ferber e book for the advice in this methodology.

Answer 5

It is one of three things, growth spurt, teething, or she's getting sick with something. More than likely it's a growth spurt and not the other two things. Don't worry soon enough she'll be back to sleeping through the night.

Answer 6

It's probably a growth spurt, but it may also be due to teething, or hunger. Might be time to introduce solid foods during the day if you haven't already.

Answer 7

Probably! Make sure to load her up on food a lot during the day. Her snacks may seem more like meals now. Six meals a day! Good Luck!

Answer 8

Time to introduce something with more substance. Rice cereal if you haven't already. You can mix it in her bottle as well so the last bottle you give her before bedtime is more filling.

Answer 9

Try feeding her more solid foods just before bedtime...like baby rice cereal. It will keep her satisfied longer.

Answer 10

try to start giving her some cereal (baby of course) in her bottle it will keep her tummy fuller trhuout the night gl.