What your 6 month old will be up to in terms of their development and daily needs, and what their eating and sleeping might look like through the day and night.
The Average 6 Month Old:
- Will be able to stay awake for between 2 and 3 hours before needing to go back down for a nap
- Will be heading towards 3 meals of solid food per day, one hour after a milk feed
- Will have about 11-12 hours of total sleep overnight
- Will have on average 2-4 hours of sleep during the day
- May drop their late afternoon catnap (if they have been having one)
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Awake Time:
- 7:00 Awake & milk feed
- 8:00 Solids – breakfast
- 8:30 Nap
- 10:00 Awake
- 10:30 Milk feed
- 11:30 Solids – lunch
- 12:00 Nap
- 1:30 Awake
- 2:30 Milk feed
- 3:30 Nap
- 5:00 Awake and solids – dinner
- 6:30 Milk feed and Bedtime routine
- 7:00 Bed
- 10:30 Dream feed
2 hours
Naps Per Day:
3
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Awake Time:
- 6:30 Awake & milk feed
- 7:30 Solids – breakfast
- 8:30 Nap
- 10:30 Awake and milk feed
- 12:00 Solids – lunch
- 1:30 Nap
- 3:30 Awake and milk feed
- 5:00 Solids – dinner
- 6:00 Bedtime routine and milk feed
- 6:30 Bed
- 10:30 Dream feed
3 hours
Naps Per Day:
2
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Awake Time:
- 7:00 Awake & milk feed
- 8:00 Solids – breakfast
- 9:00 Nap
- 9:45 Awake
- 11:00 Milk feed (morning tea)
- 12:15 Nap
- Awake and solids – lunch
- 3:30 Nap
- 4:15 Awake and milk feed (afternoon tea)
- 5:30 Solids – dinner
- 6:30 Bed time routine
- 7:00 Milk feed top up and bed
- 10:30 Dream feed
2 and a half hours
Naps Per Day:
3 – 45 minute napper
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Awake Time:
- 7:30 Awake
- 8:00 Milk feed
- 9:00 Solids – breakfast
- 10:00 Nap
- 11:30 Awake
- 12:00 Milk feed
- 1:00 Solids – lunch
- 2:00 Nap
- 3:30 Awake
- 4:00 Milk feed
- 5:00 Solids – dinner
- 6:30 Bed time routine (dropped the catnap and will get tired and crabby at this time)
- Nap
2 and a half hours
Naps Per Day:
2 – just dropped the catnap
Solids - what we recommend to make feeding easier!
Milestone for a 6 month old:
- Your six month old may have doubled their birth weight by now
- Your six month old can probably sit up on their own
- Your six month old can probably roll backwards and forwards and wriggled their way short distances across the floor
- If your baby’s eyes have changed color since birth, the color they are now is probably how they will stay
- Your six month old will be babbling and taking more notice of what you say and how you say it. If you haven’t started bed time stories yet, now is a great time to start.
