What’s your babies sleep like at this age?

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My son just turned six months and will sleep a solid six hour stretch at night and then wake up every two hours until it’s time to start our day. He is eating solids and purée twice a day and EBF on demand. He eats and plays plenty. Sometimes his naps are 20 minutes sometimes they are two hours. He naps about 4-5 times a day depending on nap length. He is a contact mapper and we also bedshare. His schedule is all over the place! Teething all the while doesn’t help. The four month sleep regression sucked and five months had a break but then got worse but six months has been the absolute worst!! Feeling like those newborn days all over again. 🙃
What’s your babies sleep like at their age?

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Emily sleeps anywhere from 4-8 hours at a time. Sometimes she wakes up 2-3 times and other times it’s a solid stretch. I just hate it because my boobs have no idea what to do😆 My supply can’t regulate at night because of her horrible sleep habits.
Also her naps are 45 minutes if she’s in her crib and 2 hours if she’s sleeping on me🙃

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Ella wasn’t a great daytime napper until we recently discovered she prefers to sleep on her belly. When we found that out she went from taking 20-30 minute naps to an hour+ naps! It makes me nervous and I check on her a bunch but she can roll both ways so we are okay letting her sleep on her belly. She usually takes three naps a day, but sometimes it winds up being two 🙃 Her naps are usually around 9:30, 12:30-1ish, and one last short one around 4:30. As for nighttime, I think we hit the jackpot as she has always been a great night sleeper. She was going to bed around 9ish but we recently changed her schedule around a little bit and she now goes to bed between 7:45-8 PM. She sleeps through the night until around 7:30 AM. She does not wake up at all throughout the night at all and for that we are very grateful 🙌 She is combo fed half breastmilk half formula and also gets solids 2x a day along with the occasional puffs, teething cracker or yogurt melts lol

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I started the Moms on Call schedule and it has really worked for us. He has 2 naps a day lasting between 45 minutes to 2 hours. Eats every 4 hours during day. Then he has last feeding at 7 pm and down to sleep at 7:30 and not up until 7:30 am the next day. We are turning the curve the last 2 weeks and dropping any nighttime feedings. He used to wake up at least once around 3-4 am for a feeding but lately he has been sleeping through that. The last 3-4 nights he slept 12 hours straight or put himself back to sleep if he woke and then last night he woke at 3 am, I waited 15 minutes of him crying so I fed him and back to bed. Honestly the key is getting him in his own room and own crib. He will sleep sooo much better that way. It’s easier to let them cry a little when in a different room. And it’s not mean to let them cry. You love them and are giving them the chance to learn a vital Life skill. it’s important they learn good sleep skills to put themselves back to sleep when they wake up. If they know you are in the room they won’t give up and go back to bed. I have seen my little guy come so far. We haven’t let him cry longer than 20 minutes at a time. But even just doing that he has learned to put himself back to sleep and doesn’t cry that long when he wakes anymore. He literally wakes up a few small cries, bables sometimes grabs his pacifier and has gone back to bed.  Easiest way to get LO to sleep well is to put him in his own crib/room. That’s what worked for us.  We have a video monitor so can still see and hear everything. Best of luck!!

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The day my baby turned 6 months, I sleep trained her. Now she sleeps 10-12 hours straight at night. She will go down around 7. Wake up around 5:30!for a 5 min feeding then go back down until 7-7:30. 
I couldn’t take the inconsistent nights. I used Taking Cara babies and I Highly recommend it!!! (Message me if it’s too much money and I can basically give you the run down on how to do it.) it truly made my marriage and my mood SO much better once I got my sleep back!!!!

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Claire used to almost never take a nap longer than 30 minutes. Now that we’re sleep training (Ferber) most of her naps have been an hour or more. She still has the occasional 20-30 minute nap, but even then she is more likely to entertain herself for a bit in her crib before crying. 
She’s been in her crib since 4 months for both naps and overnight.

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My LO sleeps between 11.5 - 13 hours a night, daytime naps are only about 30 mins but lately starting to extend a little longer. She’s drinking about 26oz a day, and we offer a meal for supper but she doesn’t really consume any of it (BLW).

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We do 2 naps a day. The morning nap is about an hour & the afternoon nap is 2ish hours.  My son goes to bed between 7 & 7:30 & is up for the day around 7. He’s usually up once a night to eat.

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The six month spurt was rough! Lincoln is 7 months and 1 week now. 
He eats about 20-24oz of breastmilk a day (one scoop formula added to each bottle to help weight gain) 
He also eats two “meals” a day which consists of baby led weaning finger foods and feeding himself purées. He maybe eats 2-3oz in tota all day. 
He naps two 60-90 minute naps and then one 30 minute cat nap to help last til bedtime. 
Bedtime at 7. Dream feed at 10. Eats at 2 and eats again at 7 when he wakes up.

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Hey that’s how we sleep at night! It’s awful!

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What is sleep? 
My little one goes to bed around 11pm, she’s EBF, wakes up 3-5 times throughout the night. Has to sleep right up against me. Then some days she’s up at 7-8am other days she sleeps til 11am. She naps 20-30 min 3-4 times a day. Depending on how loud my 4 year old is. There’s no rhyme or reason to any of it. She’s such a difficult baby compared to my first who slept 6 hours straight coming home from the hospital. I’m just so tired.

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