About her sleep?
I mean Isla is an AWFUL sleeper. I know that. I've always said that I was a bit concerned about her sleep because it never happens and I was scared it would affect her, but it kinda hit me when someone else said it....

I mean she doesn't nap through the day. She never really has. She went through a phase when she was around 5 weeks of two 20 min naps but that lasted around 2 weeks. At night she wakes every 30 mins to an hour, always, it's not like she's teething or anything. She takes a very very long time to even go to sleep anything up to 3 hours...I mean she is sooooo tired, all the time, I feel awful, but I don't know what to do

She had about two weeks of sleeping 7.30pm - 11.30pm and then up every 30mins/1hr but that was short lived

He also said he was concerned about her eating...he said she should be getting extra supplements from the doctors...um...no. She's 6 months old, and breastfed but he said I should get a 'strong' (meaning full of vits) formula

Just feeling a bit rubbish at the moment When she was teeny I was of the opinion if she was tired, she would sleep....guess it never happened

just wanted to say hugs and your not alone ..... my girl is 9months next week and still doesnt sleep she'll do about a hour nap and then from going to bed at 7pm its game on shes up normally every 1 - 1 n half ..... and im just expecting that this is her and she likes been awake and active then sleeping ..... maybe we'll get lucky on the next one and theyll sleep lol xx

Thanks for the reply, as bad as it probably sounds, it's nice to hear other people going through it too. My dad keeps going on about how he can tell I'm tired and how I need to 'sort out her sleep'. If I could, I would!

And I'm sure all his kids were perfect and STTN at birth.

Don't worry! I know people with two year olds that don't STTN

I don't think it's true that formula helps sleep, maybe in the early days because their tummies are so small but probably not at this age. I certainly didn't notice a change when I switched.

Don't know about her sleep, it does seem a little strange for her age, especially her not napping in the day. I know you baby wear a lot (BTW not criticising at all, I think it's great), does Isla sleep in the sling? Rory never does and then gets over tired and can't sleep, and maybe if she gets overtired it'll contribute to not napping and not sleeping at night?Have you tried setting nap times each day and putting white noise on so she can just sleep? She might not at first but after a while she'd get used to it, plus white noise is amazing at getting babies to sleep. If nothing works taking her to the doctors won't do any harm. Good luck

This is exactly what I've had to do for my LO it's like ive had to teach him when to go to sleep. I realised from an early age that he wouldn't just fall asleep. So I put him down for naps the same time every day and he know sleeps a lot better but we do have our bad days but then we just start the next day all over again. Hope you find a way to help your LO sleep soon.

Random thought but I've heard of bf babies who are intolerant of dairy and when Mum cuts out dairy they sleep better. No other thoughts, hugs x

Like PP said I think it's just part of their make-up that they don't sleep. My daughter has had 1 half hour nap today and I had a battle getting her down for that. She is constantly alert and just doesn't seem to switch off. People will give you all kinds of advice - I was constantly told that she was waking out of hunger - but she doesn't need milk at night now so that can't be it.

I think it's just one of those things they learn to do like they learn to crawl or walk. Good luck and I hope us ladies get a decent nights sleep soon!

Sorry to hear you are having it so hard. Do you have any idea what is causing her to wake up so much? Does she have a dummy or anything?

At 6 months I don't think that changing to formula will make any difference at all. I'm not it would when they are younger either. As my baby girl who is only 11 weeks and fully breast fed already sleeps better than my son did at 6 months and was part formula part BF. He was a dreadful sleeper and in the end we did a lot of sleep trainer with him including weaning the dummy. We didn't do cry it out we used more gentle methods.

How do you get her back to sleep when she wakes in the night?

My LO is 6 months and is the same he sleeps in our bed now to save constantly getting up when he wakes. He does have silent reflux though he used to have trouble eating too but with all his meds it's just sleeping and burping that's the problem. The peadatrician says he wakes cause when he gets into a light sleep any little bit of pain will wake him especially as he has nothing to distract him from the pain at night, he then cant go back to sleep cause he doesn't self settle.
Maybe try taking him to the drs cause at my Los 6 week check I said he only slept about 4 hours out of 24 and the first thing he did was to try gaviscon. My LO is also milk intolerant I know my friends baby woke constantly until they stopped dairy, mine just stopped screaming! Maybe try cutting dairy out your diet for a couple of weeks to see if it helps, it does take a while for improvement though.
Don't worry your not the only one I know how it feels to be sooo tired all the time, the peadatrician told me his reflux might not get better til he's 2 but dont think I can survive that long!