I have a six month old son who is waking up 4 times between 4am and 7am. Any advice on how to get him 2 sleep

Question

My son is 6 months old. When he was 2-3 months he slept 9.5 hours straight a night. Now he goes to sleep at 8/9 ish sleeps until 2am (if i'm lucky) eats and goest back to sleep, but then he is waking up at 4 am and waking up about 3-4 times in between 4am and 7am. I have a three year old who slept all night at 8 weeks old. I am in desperate need of a full night sleep, my husband helps, but it's still hard. I need any advice I can get. Someone told me to let him cry, but i'm not sure if that is ok at this age. Any help would be great!! Thanks

Answer 1

Make sure your baby has burped well after each feeding day or night. Make sure he is dry, warmly dressed, if you are having cold weather now, & make sure he has a warm blanket or baby comforter over him. Sometimes a baby will wake up if their wet or cold or both. Maybe leaving a soft light on will help, even at his age. Good luck!

Answer 2

Could it be time to start solids? He could be waking up due to hunger. If he gets a good dinner - an extra milk feed or maybe some cereal (spoon fed, not in the bottle) it might tide him over.

My LO didn't sleep through until he started crawling - at 14mo! (He was a late crawler) so I know how you feel and how draining it can be!

Also, try putting him to bed a little earlier in the evening. 8-9 is quite late to be going to bed for a 6 month old. He might be getting overtired and having bad nights because of that. Bring his bedtime back by 15 mins every couple of nights until you get to 7ish, just to see if it helps!

Good luck, I hope you get the rest you need very soon!

Answer 3

This sounds pretty normal for a baby. It could be he is teething, or going through a growth spurt, or working hard on learning new things - these can all cause more frequent night wakings. Taking him in to your bed might help you both to sleep better. Don't let him 'cry it out', just hang in there, soothe him back to sleep as best you can, and remind yourself that he will sleep more when he gets a bit older.

Here are some good sleep articles:

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070100.asp
http://www.kellymom.com/parenting/sleep/index.html

Answer 4

I don't like to do it, but if it is 4:30 or later when my daughter wakes up (which is rare) then i will put her in bed with me and daddy for a couple of hours. Its ok on our end because she still knows she has bed time and that she has to sleep at bedtime. She goes to bed at 8 and or a normal night sleeps til 7:30, but we still have rough nights.

Answer 5

I wouldn't let him cry. There's something about 4 am, I've heard more people say their child becomes restless at that time, my son is one of them. And he's two now. Sometimes he'll be ok, but mostly he rouses quite a bit from 4 until he wakes for the day.

I just keep doing my thing to get him back to deep sleep: nurse, rock, cuddle him, let him lay on me. Sometimes we just have to get up early.

Answer 6

im sure youve talked to his peiatrician about this
however what always worked for my boys, was soft music in the background & sometimes sleeping in my bed helped
if that didnt work, we'd get in the car & go for a drive
they are 12 & 6 now & still fall asleep after drving around a few minutes :)
I hope this helped
if it continues though, id talk to the ped