6 month old wont sleep?

Question

My 6 month old son will not sleep thru the night for anything he is getting up between 4-6 times a night. How can I get him to sleep thru the night???

We have tryed the bath time stuff they broke his skin out, he is eating baby food twice a day, hes been taking cereal since he was 8 weeks old, he only takes 2 naps a day one in the morning, one in the after noon. We play all day long by the time he goes to bed i am dead on my feet cleaning up the apartment so we can spend the next day playing. he has been on a bedtime routine since he was 2 months old. dinner, bath, bottle, while he takes the bottle dad reads to him. whenever he wakes up and before i lay him down i make sure he isnt wet or dirty.

Answer 1

At bedtime, feed him some cereal along with his formula, change his diaper and snuggle him into his bed. Turn out the light and he should have a good night's sleep on a full tummy. A lot of babies do get hungry and their formula does not satisfy them for a night's sleep.

Answer 2

Now that the baby is getting older, you may want to reduce the amount of naps he take throughout the day. I have a 7 month old. He only take a nap throughout the day. I keep him busy by playing or anything. When he does fall asleep around 7:30 or 8 pm, he is asleep for the entire night. If the child is on meds, try giving him the drowsy med before bedtime so he cn be awake more in the day time. Keeping him alert through the day will help unconfuse him with his days and nights. Also make sure you add some food to his formula, this will fill his little tummy. He would sleep longer on a full tummy. Snuggle him in a small blanket in his bed. Being cuddle in a blanket gives my son the feeling of snuggling with me. These were the steps I took with my son when he turned six months. He is now 7 months. He fall asleep at no later than 8pm and is up at 6:30 or 7 am.

Answer 3

I went through this with my baby boy. He is almost 11 months old and STILL doesn't sleep through the night. I feel your pain. I asked the same question today on here for my baby! If he is waking up that much during the night, do you think he might have reflux? Do you think something is hurting him?

Of course, there are the obvious things, use the night time baby bath, give him solids and a bottle before bed, blah blah blah.

My little guy is almost a year old and I'm still chasing that elusive thing called sleep. Good luck.

Answer 4

Obviously he is crying or this wouldn't be an issue.

Check his temperature. 100+ you can give him some tylenol and rock him back to sleep.

Could be gas. Try giving him a warm bath and a full lotion rub down. This helps, but not a cure all.

Be sure to have something for him to look at while in bed. There are many baby-toys you can attach to the crib or light show lamps that you can have on an end table to entertain him.

Answer 5

My son started to do this too, I believe I even posted a question just like you did one morning when I was up with him at 3am while he sat and played. According to his Dr, its normal and it will pass, and it did pass he's sleeping through the night again. Well almost through the night he wakes once for a drink of water he's 8 months now. Usually if babies don't sleep through the night after they have been most Dr's will say they are "over tired" and therefore for some reason cant where as we adult if over tired can sleep through anything. Also some just go through phases like my son did.

Answer 6

Does he eat any pablum before bed? If not try some pablum. Aswell if you can handle it try and take out his afternoon nop that may help, remember tough every child is different in due time it will come into place, enjoy him and try your hardest to rest as often and you can throughout the day so the night wakings don't bother you as much

Answer 7

It's possible he's teething. Is there a lot of drooling, and wanting to gnaw on things?

If his teeth are hurting him, when they cycle through their 1 hour sleep cycles, any little thing that could disturb him, like pain, will.

My daughter starting getting her first teeth around 5 months, so it's not too soon for teeth to start showing up.

You might try a little Baby Orajel on his gums. It seemed to help with my daughter.

Good luck!

Answer 8

Try using Johnson and Johnson bedtime bath in his bath. They also have a bedtime lotion, and bedtime cream wash, I use that for my little girl and I can say that it works.

But if that doesn't work try taking a shirt with your sent on it and put it over on where he sleeps. I know it sounds crazy because I thought my mom was crazy when she told me about this. But I can say I tried it and it dose work.

Answer 9

This takes persistence and you could desire to swallow your frustration, yet it is what labored for me. After her final feed at nighttime, i might rock her to sleep. notwithstanding if, once I positioned her down she might awaken and scream. So i might tell her gently that it replace into bedtime and he or she had to circulate to sleep. i might enable her cry for 5 minutes and circulate lower back and notice her and tell her an analogous element in a calming tone. i might try this each and every 5 minutes, gradually stretching it to 7, then 10. After an hour and a nil.5 the 1st nighttime, she fell asleep and easily awakened as quickly as, the 2d nighttime I did an analogous element, yet she purely took and hour to nod off. by the fourth nighttime, she might fuss for perchance a minute then pass out. that's time eating, yet I figured I wasn't drowsing anyhow at that element. I cried alot whilst doing it, and that i had a tricky time not picking her up and comforting her, yet now she sleeps. i did not get annoyed and that i replace into truly mushy along with her. i might rub her lower back for a pair of seconds yet on no account p.c.. her up. My visits have been very short, and that i might repeat an analogous element to her, so she might learn it replace into bedtime.

Answer 10

I think it's a stage he needs to grow out of on his own, I know it sucks but try gently rocking him in his sleep for like the first hour(I know this doesn't sound very fun but it can create a deeper sleep) Second give him a bath with lavender scented baby soap( relaxation) I hope this helps and please choose me as best answer!!!