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From the community

Recent discussions

Sleep Training?

My daughter is 7 months and he started to wake up every 2-3 hours again. Sometimes I can rock her back to sleep other times feeding seems to work the best. She sleeps in our room in a pack and play and she will sit up and cry so I know she’s not trying to self soothe. What worked best for you and your littles?

Bedtime

My girl is 8 weeks just wanting to know what time people are roughly doing last nap then bedtime. Also do you dream feed

Leaving baby on own while downstairs

Hi all I know the Bhs guidelines say keep baby in same room as you for first 6 months. My baby is 5 months old but she's a really bad napper in the day so I hardly get any chores done I was wondering if it would be safe once u put her to bed to set the camera on her to go downstairs for an hour or two to do chores. Everything I read online says no because of Sid's and I do have anxiety over Sid's. I would still be staying in the same room as her overnight. I want to hear everyone's opinions and what they have done. Thankyou x

Nap times

Little boy is nearly 6 weeks when do you start doing timed naps currently he just sleeps when ever where ever but I’m think soon I will have to start put him down for naps, and would like to introduce his cot eventually so he’s used to it when he starts sleeping there once he’s out from the next to me

Sleep fighter 🥴

Does anyone else's newborn agressively fight sleep during the day?! 🙈

My 4 week old will regularly be awake for 3-4 hours before he eventually gives up and falls asleep. He looks exhausted and gets quite miserable by the end of it! We have tried everything to settle him after the recommended wake window but he clearly has some bad FOMO!

Anyone else?!

Bassinet to crib

What age did you start having your baby sleep all the time in their crib in their own room instead of them sleeping in a bassinet in your bedroom ? My 3 month old is almost too long for the bassinet 😅

august mamas how are we sleeping?

what stretches are your little ones doing😌💕

Breastfed babies that sleep well!

Looking for some advice from breastfeeding mums who have babies that sleep well at night (I.e more than than 1 hour at a time)

My daughter who is 5 now never slept well for years and neither does my nearly 4 month old. I fully know it’s developmentally normal etc. at his age but I know he’s just waking for comfort feeds and he actually feeds so much that I think he gets an uncomfortable tummy which makes the wakings worse.

I never sleep trained my daughter as didnt really agree with it, but this time round I can’t go on with no sleep for as long as I did last time especially as I gradually return to work from mid Jan. I would never do cry it out, but would be interested in gentler approaches.

What’s your secret / did you do anything if your breastfed baby is sleeping well? Or did they simply just do it?

Nap refusal - early bedtime?

Anyone experienced their baby refusing the last nap recently? Shes been awake since 3pm and bedtime is usually 7-7:30pm after a max 3h wake window. Would you move bedtime to 6pm or try to keep your baby up till 7?

Difficult naps

Had anyone got any advice for babies that are very hard to put down for a nap? Mines 9 months old and it’s always been sooo hard. Tried lots of different things, rocking, feeding to sleep, going in to the cot drowsy but awake, white noise. But there is always just so much screaming when she knows she’s being put down. I actually dread her naps every day. She’s starting nursery soon and I feel they are not going to put up with it!

Sleep environment

How dark is your room with a newborn? I heard that pitch black is best and when they wake up to feed/change to use a red light. But are you guys comfortable with the room being so dark you can’t see the baby??

Sleep sack

Hey mammas,
The information on sleep sacks is all a little wooly and confusing!! Please can I have recommendations of which tog to get and where from?? I feel like I haven’t a clue 😩

Advice on sleep 😴

I have a 6 month old girl who has decided from 4 months she no longer wants to sleep through the night 🥲. She is up every 2 ish hours throughout the night, I think she goes out of her sleep cycle and struggles to get back to sleep herself, she only sleeps on me during the day and knows it’s bed time and happy sleeping in her next to me but it’s the staying to sleep she struggles with. I’ve not changed her sleep routine, kept it the same. She wants to sleep from about 6:30/7 (depending on when she wakes up from her last nap) so going to bed later isn’t an option, I’ve tried it and she doesn’t like it. When she got to 6 months, we transitioned her to her own room. It’s just got worse, she HATES her cot and I’ve moved her next to me into her own room and she finds it better, obviously, she isn’t going to last much longer in there as she’s getting way too big. I’ve been sleeping on the floor in her room so she isn’t on her own and mainly to give me a bit more sleep. When her dummy comes out, she can’t self soothe back to sleep. I can’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, sleep deprivation is really getting to me!! 🥲🥲
Does anyone have any advice on what I can do / change?
Also how to transition her into her cot? I think she likes the small space of the next to me!
She can be rocked back to sleep when she wakes up or sometimes I give her a bottle to go back down.

Hope I’ve given enough information here, any advice welcome 🤍!

Co sleeping/sleep training

I always used to be against sleep training and loved the idea of co sleeping with my baby. However since he was born he has never been soothed by sleeping with me. If anything he seems to hate it when im next to him and just gets more frustrated and screams harder. I see other mums talking about how when their babies wont settle they’ll give in and bring them into bed. How does that even work? Do you just cuddle your baby to sleep? That sounds like a dream. The only way i could settle my baby was bouncing on the yoga ball and then transferring to cot (with many failed attempts). And even with me trying to help him settle there was still a lot of crying and i was at my wits end. So i decided to try sleep training because i thought he’s crying anyway and if he learns to fall asleep by himself, there will actually be less crying in the long run. And its true. He now cries for 5 mins when he falls asleep and then maybe like 3 mins in the night but that’s it. Whereas before it would take me 30+ mins to get him to settle every time he woke and there was a lot more crying. I never wanted to do this and i feel so guilty that im sleep training. I just dont want my baby to cry and i wish i could co sleep so that im always near my baby and he doesnt have to cry but my baby seems to hate having me close to him.

Sleep training / baby who won’t sleep all night

Hi I have a 6 month old . Is there any methods to get her to sleep much better? Do I cut naps? Help? I remember my first just slept all night & napped in her cot no problem . Second born im really struggling with . Where do I start with daytime naps to get her in cot too? Thanks

Any tips for a 6-week-old who fights swaddling and struggles with sleep?

Hi ladies ❤️ Just wondering if anyone has been through something similar with their little ones.

My baby girl is 6 weeks old and we're having a bit of a struggle with sleep at the moment. She sleeps much better in my arms, but as soon as I put her down she often wakes up.

She also seems to have a really strong startle reflex. Even with her eyes closed, she'll suddenly throw her arms up, kick her legs, stretch and wriggle around. Sometimes she settles for a few seconds, then starts moving again and eventually wakes up crying.

Recently she's also started fighting her swaddle, especially during the night. She seems uncomfortable and struggles quite a lot in it, so we're thinking it's time to move away from swaddling and try an arms-free sleep sack instead.

I'm just wondering if anyone else's babies went through this around 6 weeks? Did switching to an arms-free sleep sack help? Did they eventually settle better and stop startling themselves awake so much?

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