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Your Guide to the 9-Month Sleep Regression

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Your Guide to the 5-Month Sleep Regression

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Your Guide to the 11-Month Sleep Regression

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Your Guide to the 3-Month Sleep Regression

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Your Guide to the 7-Month Sleep Regression

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Your Guide to the 10-Month Sleep Regression

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Your Guide to the 6-Month Sleep Regression

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Your Guide to the 8-Month Sleep Regression

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From the community

Recent discussions

Little one cries when my husband holds him

Our son is just over 5 weeks old, and for the past 2–3 weeks he cries almost every time my husband holds him. The only position he seems comfortable in is the “football” hold, but he won’t nap that way.

It’s becoming really stressful for both of us. I feel like I can’t properly nap, get ready, or let my husband settle him during the night without him crying, and I know it’s upsetting for my husband too. What makes it harder is that our son is happy and naps being held by other family members.

Is this something other parents have experienced, and does anyone have any advice or solutions that helped?

12 weeks jab

How were your babies after the 12 weeks jab… my LG has been very fussy after taking hers today… I’ve given calpol twice with 4 hours interval… the next one will fall after bedtime when she’s asleep… do I let her sleep or wake her to give it?… TIA x

Dummy.

I’d really like my 3 week old to take a dummy during the night. She hates it and gags on it, I’ve got a newborn tommee tippee one. My son took one no problem.
I’m BF and she just sucks for ages and ages and I’m just soooo tired and it’s to the point getting dangerous like I could easily drop her. If your baby is taking a dummy which one have you got? X

Second time mums - i need some help!

My husband will be away tomorrow and friday night for work and I'll have my 3 year old and 9 week old on my own with no support.

The nursery drop off and pick up for my toddler should be fine as i have done it a couple of times now but I'm so worried about the evenings. Their bedtimes clash so I'm worried about how to handle it, especially if my toddler comes home with tantrums!

My husband normally puts my toddler to sleep at 7pm and I do the baby which takes 6pm-7.45pm. Got no idea how I'll manage to get her ready for bed and read her books etc with a screaming baby in my arms?!

Any advice please?

Bed time.

What times does your little ones go to bed? What time do you start your bedtime routine? We had an NHS Sleep consultant today as we are still rocking with our boy to sleep and we really want to help him fall asleep on his own and they suggested an 8pm bedtime. But I feel that’s so late. I can post the suggested bedtime in the comments if anyone is interested.

What type of bed is your toddler sleeping in?

My daughter is currently in a cot bed (with the sides down and a guard rail) but I feel she needs more space. Any suggestions for a 2.5 year old?

Naps

Anyone else’s 6 month old has their naps all over the place??

She normally gets tired after a couple hours but recently has been fighting naps to takes ages rocking her and then she falls asleep in arms but as soon as I transfer she’s awake 😂 longest nap around 45mins and still about 4-5 naps a day with a bed time at 7:30 but false wakes for 2 hours 🙃🙃🙃

Regression maybe? I hope 😂

sleep!!!

my son is 8 weeks 9 on monday and people are telling me you dont need to wake him for feeds if hes over birth weight but weve been in and out of sleep all day and hes only had 3 bottles one at 6 one at 12 abd one at 7 ive had to wake him up for the 7 one. im starting to get worried shall i keep waking him up? if so how long after a bottle shall i wake him?

Cold

Hola Mamas, ive started co sleeping for the sake of surviving the sleep deprivation 6mo, I have read up on everything for safe sleeping and have 2 issues and would love to know what you're all doing, the duvet/comforter terrifies me, so its all off the bed except a little bit around me from the waist down... but im SO cold every night, and still scared ill move it in my sleep. Im so nervous infact its keeping me awake which is annoying because since co sleeping my LO is sleeping better...

How are you keeping warm AND making sure the blanket is set up safely? Am I missing something?

Anyone’s almost 10m old waking up 4/5am?

Been like this 4 days in a row now.. never had any issues with LO sleeping at night. 😕. Could this be a regression?

Anyone’s baby sleeping thru the night?

My son still gets up a few hours after being put to bed and it’s SO hard to get him back into his cot so I’ve been co sleeping for months now but I’d love if he just slept the whole night in his cot as I’m on the edge of the bed and get constantly kicked by him

Outfit and nappy changes

Desperate for some advice, my little boy is turning 1 next week and for the last 3-4 months nappy and outfit changes have been so difficult. He hysterically cries and screams and constantly wants to roll over to get up. I’ve tried different distractions / toys and occasionally they help or sometimes they make the situation worse. It’s becoming hard to change him in public too. I keep thinking he’s going to grow out of it but it’s been a few months now and if anything it’s gotten worse 🥲

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