Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get a 6 month old to sleep through the night. We are ona  nightly routine...bath, book, bottle, bed. He goes right to sleep at 10:30 but at 2:20am he is awake and screaming. I have read that after 4 months, middle of the night feedings are learned behavior but I don't know how to break the cycle. The only plus side is that he isn't in our bed, he gladly sleeps in his crib, he just wakes up at 2 every morning.

Have you tried a pacifer?  Is he getting enough to eat during the day? My daughter is six months old as well.  She has been sleeping thru the night since she was about a month old.  I give her a little more to eat before bed. She is eating solids now and I give her some kind of vegatable before bed and a bottle. 

We have tried a pacifer but Jordan doesn't like it, he has never really liked it. The doctor told us to hold off on solids because he had a bad case of ezcema (which is gone now). He will be six months on Wednesday so hopefully the doctor will give us the go ahead to feed him solids.

I guess I don't understand why having ezcema would make a difference on giving solids I'm not a doctor. My doctor told me to start giving my daughter solids at four months. 

I agree with Hope on upping the food. When my daughter starts sleeping less and getting up earlier it's the easiest telltale sign to give her more. The routine you have for bed sounds great and if solids aren't aloud yet then I would give a couple more ounces in the bottle during then the day and especially the last bottle before bed. Best of luck.

All babies are different. Some sleep through the night, some don't. Sleeping through the night is determined by 5 hours of sleep, so technically he is. I've never believed in raising my child by the textbook. You are the mother, not the book. If he is waking up, he is probably hungry. Feed him! You may lose some sleep, but he will benefit from the nourishment and the bonding. Try going to bed the same time you put him down so you can get enough sleep too. 

Hey Sweet Heart I understand where your coming from My 11month old just started to sleep during the night at 9mos and its because I Gave her rice Cereal I know your doctor told you not to give Jordan solid foods yet, Ask him if it is okay to give him the cereal I can gurantee you it will fill him up a lil more then just the bottle I would even start putting it into the bottle untill he can get use to the spoon I had a difficult time getting my baby to feed from the spoon so I would just put it into the bottle to thickin it up just a lil and make sure the hole is big enough ! I hope everything goes well !!! take care!

I think I have tried everything. My almost 14 month old just started to sleep through the night. If you are feeding him a bottle at 2 decrease every night by a 1/2 oz until you're down to zero. If all goes well he will start to drink more during the day. The bad part is you may have to have him cry it out after you get down to zero, to break the habit. This worked for us for a little while but then she started waking again. I just finally gave in and gave her a bottle (just like 3oz) and she would sleep until 8! Now she sleeps from 7 until 6 usually with a once a week getting up at 4am for some reason and staying up, ugh.Just take it slow with the solids. Your doctor is probably worried about a food allergy but just introduce things slowly and you will know what works and what doesn't (when his skin gets really rashy looking). Good luck!!

Thanks so much for all the advice. I will definitely try to rice cereal at night before bed.

Suzanne...you are right, the doctor was worried about food allergies. Ezcema and food allergies are closely linked. I suffer from an allergy to nuts and kiwi, so if holding off on solids gives Jordan more of a chance, I don't mind. Decreasing food a little at a time is also a good idea, I didn't think about that.

Definitely see if you can add some rice cereal to his milk to make sure he's not hungry during the night. After that you have to work on breaking the middle of the night habit. Even if he's not hungry anymore, at this point he'll most likely continue to wake up because of the habit. I think the decreasing the amount of milk slowly is a great idea, but as Suzanne mentioned, once you get down to zero you absolutely have to let him cry it out. Go in every five minutes to reassure him, but once you decided to stop the cycle, DO NOT GIVE IN. Keep at it if it kills you for as long as it takes(hopefully only a night or two, sometimes a lot longer). If you give in and give him a bottle after he cries for a long time, then he'll know if he cries long enough he'll get what he wants. If you stick with it he'll end up falling asleep exhausted from the crying for one, two, three nights, but then he'll learn that there is no point in waking and crying cause he won't get anything. It sounds cruel, but it's not. They(as any other being), are creatures of habit. You just have to break the habit.

My daughter got used to falling asleep while nursing, and if I tried to move her she would wake up crying. I had to lay there with her every night for up to two hours to make sure she is fast asleep before I would try to move her to her crib. When I decided to wean her off I was dreading trying to get her to fall asleep in her bed without the breast more than the actual weaning her away from breastfeeding.

It took literally just two nights of crying and begging to be held at the breast, but then it was done. She got used to going in her bed with her doll and going to sleep onm her own so fast that I was amazed. She is now 20 months and she has been sleeping through the night since two months and going to bed on her own since I weaned her at 14 months. Even if she wakes up breefly during the night she soothes herself back to sleep because I let her figure it out on her own.

Anyway, sorry about the lengthy message, but I wanted to tell you my experience so you know it works.

Keep us updated on your progress.

Good luck.