I have a 6 month old .. what can I do ?

Question

She wakes up at 8am in the morning and then takes a 1 hour nap at, 12am and then a 30 min nap at 3:00 and goes to bed at 8pm but she wake up at night maybe 5 times every hour crying wanting to be picked up. How can I fix this or is there anything I can do to? Thx

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I wonder if putting her to bed at seven (or even earlier) instead of eight would help. 4-4 1/2 hour wake windows for a six month old is pretty long. She could be getting overtired. An overtired baby is hard to get to sleep and even harder to stay asleep. Additionally, make sure your baby is getting enough in her feedings during the day because if she's not, she will wake through the night to try to feed to make up for it.

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My son is 9 months and he goes to bed at 8pm, nurses at 2 AM and sleeps til 7 AM. He then naps again at 10AM til 11:30 and then again from 2:30-4 and then stays up til bed time. 
I would say up til he was 4-5 months old he was a very bad napper/sleeper but I had to take the situation into my own hands and he is now much better. 
He coslept with us in his bassinet next to my bed til he was about 7.5 months. This was really good for his sleeping habits because every time he would wake I could soothe him in his bassinet and just stick my arm in there and he would know we were right there and never had to cry it out. 
Around 7 months he got adventurous enough to start tying to climb out of his bassinet into our bed so it was no longer safe for him to roomshare with us so I started crib naps during the day and got him acclimated to his crib and then moved him into it after a couple weeks. 
Every time he would wake up, I would go in and try to rub his back/shush him back to sleep without picking him up or create a commotion, but I never, ever let him cry it out. Even to this day, if he is teething or under the weather and doesn’t want to sleep alone, I will let him sleep in bed with us…sometimes they just want to be extra close at different times. 
These are a few things that helped me: 
- I do not wait until he is tired to put him down for a nap. He goes down same time every day if I can help it. If he does have to miss a nap for whatever reason, I will keep the rest of the day clear so he can have a later nap and not get over stimulated. When you wait until they are tired, they can actually get overly tired which is a real thing. Their bodies release chemical components that make it much harder for them to go to sleep or stay asleep. 
- I try to do the same routine with him every night. Daddy brushes his teeth/gets him changed, he listens to the same worship songs while he nurses and I hum to him and then the white noise machine goes on and stays on. I would work on playing the same lullaby, or getting baby on a white noise machine, as they build cognitive associations to noise and it cues them in that it is sleep time. 
- make sure that when they are awake, they are stimulated. After he wakes up in the morning, we do breakfast, he plays, he explores, I work from home but try to make activities as stimulating as possible and I never ever put him in the car before his morning nap at 10 because he needs to move and get his energy out. If they are in the car, cat napping, etc, it can really throw them off of a good nap.

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At your childs age there is nothing you can do. You can not make a schedule with a baby. If it's too much for you then ask someone for help. It's definitely hard for like the first year of a child's life. They sleep when they want.

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This is normal. My child woke up 3-6 times a night till she was 18 months. Does your partner help you at night?

I have a 6 month old .. what can I do ?

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