Did solids help with sleep?

[omelette]

My little one is a week or so away from starting solids and I'm curious if anybody noticed an improvement in sleep once solids were introduced.

I think I'm hoping and praying that it will as this little one is not a sleeper like my 1st was. I don't seem to remember it making a difference with my first.

So, from your experience did solids help with sleep?

[rocketgirl96]

In my case, I'm sorry to say, that solids made no difference whatsoever. At 2 years old, he's still waking up several times at night. Sorry. I hope others have a better story for you.

Christine

[hakeber]

Not until he started having more proteins, like chicken and cheese and legumes. Just veggies and fruit, not so much.

[JordanKX]

My DS has been on solids for about a month now. We're doing veggies and fruits, some cereals. And I'm not seeing any changes. He's still up twice a night to eat.

[Friendlee]

My dd is almost 6 months old. We started solids (rice cereal) a little early because of her extremely poor sleeping habits. (Up every hour/hour and a half at night and only catnaps during the day). I feared that her development was suffering due to lack of restful sleep.

Unfortunately, I am in the exact same boat as I was before. Food has not improved our situation in the slightest. I was so hopeful, but I wish I'd just continued to ebf and waited until she was ready for finger foods to introduce food.

[Bokonon]

No, not at all.

[blumooned]

Nope - not helpful here either. DS was teething a lot around the time he started solids, so sleep actually got worse - from the teething though, not the food. He's been eating solids for almost 6mos & his sleep still varies.

[2xy]

DS1 slept through the night at six weeks of age, long before he started solids.

DS2 slept through the night when he was...erhm...3.5 years old. Long AFTER he started solids.

I don't think food makes a difference. They sleep when they sleep.

[LadyCatherine185]

No help with sleep here either.

[omelette]

Wishful thinking I guess. Those are the results I was expecting.

[odoole]

I will say they have helped his sleep somewhat, but mainly I think because he had done a pretty huge reverse cycle where he was getting most of his calories at night and not eating much during the day. I never made a huge effort to re-reverse it, but when we started with solids, it sort of reversed itself and he stopped needing to feed quite so much at night.

So for us, yes.

[Abraisme]

Nope, it hasn't made any difference. My DD has been eating solids for 2 months and she still wakes up all the time.

[LindsC]

Nope. My daughter still wakes up just as much at night as before she started solids. She really doesn't eat that much yet, but I have not noticed a difference.

[MamieCole]

Didn't help at all.

[lifeguard]

Not at all. He is just starting to only wake once a night (usually) & he's been eating solids for 10 months. We even tried giving him a good snack before bed with no change to his sleep.

[askew]

Not at all, with either kid.

[Carhootel]

no change in sleep at all.

[ElliesMomma]

i've gotten better naps during the day since introducing solids (we're doing BLW). it's only been a week though.

[Alisse]

Introduced solids 1.5months ago. My son only has solids once a day.

No change in sleep.

[Masel]

Originally Posted by ElliesMomma

i've gotten better naps during the day since introducing solids (we're doing BLW). it's only been a week though.

This. I think my DD has has slightly more sound naps since starting limited solids. I'll take what I can get sleep wise but I'm not going to rush into more food.