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Baby 6 months tips for sleeping through the night
Bloempje
Our daughter is almost 6 months old now and doing really well. For the last few months she’s been sleeping straight through from 6pm to 6-6:30am, which is lovely
We started daycare a couple of weeks ago and she’s doing great there too, very cheerful, good naps...
But since she’s been at daycare she’s been waking up earlier than usual, sometimes at 5am, 5:30am, but sometimes even 4am!!
I let her babble a bit at first, but when it’s clear she’s not going back to sleep I get up and give her a bottle. Sometimes she falls back asleep for another hour or two afterwards.
I usually get up around 6-6:30am so it would be wonderful if she could sleep in a bit again.
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Anne #2
I have "the rule" here (as much as possible, of course): up at 6 AM for a bottle and back in bed. Meanwhile, he knows about it and gets clingy and grumpy when I don't put him back down needs his sleep -
Anne #3
By the way, my son is almost 8 months now, but I've been doing this since he was about 4 months old, I think. -
Bloempje started this #4
Anne: What time does your little boy go to sleep?
I'm wondering if she might be going to bed too early? Although some people say that waking up early is just due to not getting enough sleep... -
Anne #5
In principle, he always goes around 6:15 PM and often sleeps through until 6 or 7 AM. Sometimes when we're out, he goes to bed later, but he always wakes up around the same time in the morning. Sometimes it's earlier, but then I put him back down He's also always completely awake by quarter past 6 and can't be kept awake any longer -
Bloempje started this #6
Ah, then our bedtime is actually not bad at all, I don't think it's feasible anymore.
I'm maybe thinking about adding an extra evening feed... -
Lijn #7
It’s possible that the transition to daycare gives her more stimuli, which means she has more to process, affecting sleep patterns in babies/children. I can relate to this with my daughter. After a few weeks, things got better again, and she started sleeping a bit longer. -
Bloempje started this #8
So we should stick to our old routine then?
Because of all those stimuli, she'll probably be more tired and therefore definitely not go to sleep later, I guess... -
Lijn #9
Yeah, I’d do that too. Unless you notice that she’s lost her rhythm in more ways. Sometimes it helps to adjust naps and feeding times a bit. -
Anne #10
I meant that he sometimes wakes up earlier than 6 or 7 in the morning, but not very often. I try to stick to an earliest bedtime of around 6 in the evening. -
Anonymous Guest #11
I think you're right, more stimuli and babies have phases... Our daughter has had a few weeks here and there where she woke up very early or suddenly slept in very late. But generally, at that age, she went to bed around 6:30 and slept until 7 am.
Now she's 16 months old and still goes to bed around 6:30/7 and normally sleeps until 8. But for the past 10 days or so, she's been waking up at 6:45 every day. But that's normal for her; she always has these phases.
Your baby might have them too. -
An2020 #12
Do they stick to the same feeding times at daycare?
This can sometimes cause your little one to behave differently... lots of new impressions, of course. -
Bloempje started this #13
I'll keep doing it like this for now, I've been at it for a couple of weeks...
Yesterday at 6 PM I fell asleep like a log and this night I woke up again at 4 AM, had a bottle and then slept on until 6:45 AM.
Anni2020: at daycare and at home we stick to roughly the same times, of course a fixed routine is still difficult because she sometimes takes a longer or shorter nap. But mostly it's around the same time as I see it.
Indeed, all those new impressions It'll take some adjusting. I'll hang in there a bit longer 
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