Am I doing this wrong?
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Wonder weeks app tells me this. I too am going through the same 🫣 hopefully it’s short lived but sounds like you are doing all the right things or same things as me so we both can’t be wrong 🤪 xx
@Charleigh Sally you're not doing anything wrong. That was my exact same thoughts, it's like all the hard work of putting in to settle or fall asleep has been un done. I've had to put my little one into his own room and he's had to get used to me not intervening as much. I just go in now and do reassurance checks but don't pick him up now because I'm told it gives them false hope and they rely on you too much to settle. It's working so far and sleep has improved and sleeps again for 6/7 hours stretches initially x
I feel like I could have written this post myself. This js EXACTLY what’s going on with my 6month baby. It’s so hard… 😭 don’t worry you’re not on your own x
I just felt joy having a baby sleeping for 5 hour blocks. But we’ve gone back to every 2 hours. It was good while it lasted for that one week.
Swap his meal to the morning it's very common for babies to develop lots of excess gas when weaning so an evening meal could actually be causing the wakes. It's a common misconception (100% not saying this is what you are doing btw) and evening meals make them sleep better but 9 times out of 10 it's actually the opposite and makes them sleep worse. 6/7 months is a huge time for them development wise so there's a regression coupled with the introduction of food and usually teething that causes bad sleep.
Just to reassure you, you’re doing nothing wrong! There is a 6 month sleep regression and I am currently going through the same, frequent night wakings, needs a few feedings in the night to get back to sleep, used to sleep right through from 7pm-6am, now wakes every couple of hours crying 😩 I have a few other friends with babies the same age and we are all going through the same ❤️