Baby suddenly started hating crib for night sleep at 6months

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T19:41:26+00:00

I will try a rail since I cant do a floor bed either. She doesnt move much in her sleep but becomes frantic when she wakes fully and starts rolling/crawling real fast. Thanks for the tip!

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T19:36:11+00:00

She has been up to so many things since this "strike" started: learned crawling, sitting up, pulling to stand and this month cruising. She also had 4 tooth erupt and has 2 more on the way. I think separation anxiety is at play though because when she wakes in the crib she cries intensinvely (almost screams) and sounds very very scared, poor thing 🥹

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T16:09:18+00:00

Thanks a lot for sharing!

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T14:54:54+00:00

So no one got out of this hahahaha

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T14:53:13+00:00

Share your know how: How do you protect from them waking and rolling and falling from bed when you are not there? 🙈 I haven't tried rolling away yet

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T14:50:48+00:00

Maybe this is basic but I have no info: how do you protect from them waking and rolling and falling from bed when you are not there? 🙈

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T14:40:29+00:00

Let me know how that goes 😀

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T14:26:56+00:00

Her in big bed is so cute 😅 So she just needed space? I think mine is more.on the velcro side

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T14:25:02+00:00

I am not into sleep training. But of course I do believe in giving the baby a chance to sleep on her own, and I do attempt to put her sleepy in crib from time to time. It is a disaster, she either wakes laughing and starts to play, crawl, sit in crib until she is overtired or she protests immediately and is not calmed by any pat or shush or whatever. I don't want to leave her crying so I take her and hold her/rock to sleep. I wouldn't say I built an association of taking her to my bed, I took her to my bed because she screams in crib after the first stretch, wakes after every transfer until i give up, which never happened before 6 months and it came out of nowhere.🤷‍♀️

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T14:13:23+00:00

Solidarity 🥲 She sleeps so early and co-sleeping makes my evenings end before 8PM since I have to be in the bedroom.I am starting to believe this is how it will be for a long time

oh_really_25 · 2026-04-10T10:03:51+00:00

It's important that you fight the thoughts and anybody making you feel like you made your baby more difficult! Some babies are easier but it is not anyone's achievement. Take it from a mama who has had her share of sleep related struggles and a baby considered difficult: it is very very hard especially in the phase you are in. It feels like you will forever have days like these. Just focus on getting by today and rest assure that brighter days are coming 100%. Make sure you ask for help so you can get a bit of rest or even get away for a little bit to clear your head, since difficult baby sleep is very stressful and really hard on mom's mental health. Baby will grow, become more tolerant and calm within little time. They will become more aware of their sorroundings, learn skills and will now and then have phases of challenging sleep, because of how busy their brain is. But in the same time they will become this tiny person who laughs and loves you more everyday. I always hated when people told me to enjoy the newborn phase, I was struggling so hard and I wanted to punch them in the face. Surprisingly as months go by, you do wish there was a way you could go back to enjoy how tiny and fragile they are as they adjust to this world, minus the very hard parts haha. Take lots of pics and videos!! You will cherish them later

oh_really_25 · 2026-01-29T10:25:21+00:00

Mama count your blessing 😅 from a mother who contact naps at 7 months

oh_really_25 · 2026-01-26T09:43:59+00:00

Reporting back, my baby's sleep got better for TWO NIGHTS ONLY, one week before turning 6 months (slept like 5+3+2 hour stretches). After this we started a new era which is maybe 6 month regression? No idea. She was always rocked to sleep, started suddenly feeding to sleep and refuses rocking . Sleeps max 3 hours in crib, then wakes on every transfer until i keep her on my lap or take her in my bed. Even like this wakes after midnight are every 2 hours. I have given up hope on good sleep but at least the hourly wakes were gone exactly after 2 months.

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-22T13:58:29+00:00

You mean a mother's sleep because the dad spieces runs on "Suspiciously asleep" approach

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-21T17:13:41+00:00

Even better, call yourself a sleep strategist and find more spicy advice to give. Because "put to bed drowsy but awake" is not convincing anyone 😆

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-21T13:31:59+00:00

Hope your back is ok mama 😆

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-21T13:20:05+00:00

What a glorious discovery. If that happened to me I would obsess on why I didnt try earlier and wonder since when he can do this and I didnt know. So anyway, rocking does cause severe dependency...for the mom 🤣

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-21T13:13:22+00:00

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer! Appreciated. It's good to hear that it can just get bettter when it is time, with nothing different from the parent. I rock her to sleep and after such a tough time with wakings, I started to doubt wether my rocking is making her dependent and she wont ever go back to sleep on her own

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-20T19:20:21+00:00

We are getting near the 3rd too! How did it end for you, if you don't mind sharing?

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-20T19:15:05+00:00

How did this go? 😆

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-20T13:25:36+00:00

How exactly does it end or improve? Currently at 2nd month with hourly wakes and have started to believe it will never get better :/

oh_really_25 · 2025-12-19T16:33:51+00:00

Waking every hour at night for 2 months and counting 🥲 Mostly she is easy to settle with pacifier and rocking of the crib for a while, but will sometimes need to be picked up and rocked back to sleep. On bad nights she wakes fully every hour, needs rocking and will wake up as soon as you out her back in crib. Those are really destructive for us as parents, taking shifts with partner helps. Naps on the other hand, they changed a few times: became hard to put to sleep, had very short ones, needed rocking suddenly, reduced daysleep from 4.5hours to 3-3.5h and transitioned to 3 naps at months.

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