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From the community

Recent discussions

Is it normal to feel this way?

Baby is currently 4 weeks old…I love her to bits but I DREAD her wake windows, as horrible as that sounds😖
She’s rarely content or happy when she’s awake. If she’s awake she’s crying or screaming. I actually get scared for when she might wake up because she gets herself in such a state.
Has anyone else felt this way? Or am I just an awful mum lol.

Im hoping this gets better once baby is a bit older & can interact more with things/play/laugh etc

I know it’s early days…

Baby’s 5 days old and will not sleep in the next to me no matter what we try. I’ve tried rocking it, hot water bottle to warm it, swaddled him, sleeping bag and sleepyhead (controversial I know).
Any suggestions, just want some hours sleep🥲

Never tired

I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old and nothing can tire them out. My 1 yo is on 1 nap a day my 3 yo no naps, both up at 5/6am but they never sleep till 9/10pm nothing I do can wear them out park/ soft play/ walks etc even after a full 8-6 day at nursery they’re just wired, what can I do? Me and my partner have no life as our evenings are just fighting one each to get them to sleep 😭 any tips?

Independent sleeping 🥺

My little girl has started to prefer falling asleep on her own in her cot. I’m silly feeling upset that she no longer needs me to nurse her to sleep. Has anyone else’s LO started to do this ?

Sleepy baby today

My boy is 7 weeks and has pretty much slept all night last night and all day today, hasn't had a wake window more than maybe 45 minute and only one. He's woke for feeds every 3 hours through last night and today but has just fed then gone right back to sleep again🤷‍♀️
Is this normal? Not used to him being so sleepy but he's got no signs of being ill or anything

Feed before sleep

My boy (5 months) tends to go to sleep around 20:30 ish, i don’t feed him before bed at the same time everyday because it depends how his feeds go in the day. Today he fed at 18:30 and went to sleep at 20:10. I feel guilty for him not having another feed before bed. What do others do in this situation, do you dream feed or just expect to wake during the night to feed them? He’s been going through the night the past few nights but I’m assuming he won’t tonight because he’ll be hungry.. any tips pleasee

Baby keep rolling over !

HELPP my baby is 5 months and when I put her down for a nap I usually just put her in the bed and walk out of the room and she goes to sleep on her own. But lately she’s been rolling over on her stomach and I’ll have to go back into the room and flip her back onto her back and it’s a continuous cycle till she goes to sleep lol what should I do? She doesn’t know how to go stomach to back yet but knows how to roll back to stomach.

Schedules

What are your current sleep/nap schedules?

Bonus points if your baby only sleeps 10 hours at night!

12 months old waking all night

Hello !
My baby turned 1 last week, he's never been a great sleeper and we put it down to silent reflux so now he's on Gaviscon which has helped. We also co sleep due to him waking so much.

He gets up between 6:30/7:30am and nap for 1/2 hours around 11am

He struggles to get another nap in after that. Just fights it all day but if he does sleeps it's around an hour at 2-4pm

Bed at 7pm

From 7pm he can sleep sound but he often wakes every 20/30 minutes abd this can carry on all night. He's not crying for cuddles or milk. He just sits up and cries and constantly crawls about.

On a bad night he can wake me upto 12x

I'm working and I'm exhausted

I don't know why he's waking !!!

Bed time

What time is your baby going to sleep now? My LO is 9.5 months and her bedtime has always been on the later side (our preference as me and my partner are not early morning people 😂) but struggling to get her down before 9 at the moment! Does anyone else have a baby with a late ish bedtime? I do want to try and shift it to 8pm ideally so I get some time to myself!

HELP baby sleep suddenly awful

My baby has never been a great sleeper but we’ve been slowly working to help her sleep independently and over rh last few weeks have been trying to settle her in the cot instead of feeding or rocking her to sleep. It felt like we were making progress but the last 2 nights have been awful - she went down ok-ish last night but then woke up at 10 and it took 2 hours of screaming to get her back to sleep. Then tonight it’s just taken an hour to get her down and I ended up going in and feeding her. It feels like we’ve taken about 10 steps backwards and I feel so gutted (I know this is silly) especially as my husband is going away for pretty much 2 weeks in about 1 days time. Has anyone else experienced a regression of this type at this age?

I’m 33 weeks pregnant and I just want to take a fucking nap

But I can’t because we have a three year old and his dad is fucking sleeping.

The grown man has gotten 3 hours of a nap himself. Im nauseous everytime I move and just want to lay down in one fucking spot. But I don’t fucking matter. So whatever.

Does anyone else feel bad while trying to sleep train?

I know that this isn’t an easy process. But I feel like I’m neglecting my baby when I make them wait even 5-10mins to see if they can sooth themselves to sleep.

Any advice?
Do I go in sooner if they start scream crying?

Sleep bags

Do you put your babies pulling up to stand/ trying to walk in regular sleep bags without legs?

8 months and still waking 2-5 times a night

I haven’t had a full night sleep in 8 months. It’s a type of exhaustion I didn’t even know existed. I’ve tried so many things and it doesn’t help. She only sleeps 3hr stretches max. Any advice?!

Baby not sleeping through the night 😫

So my baby is 12 months in about 2 weeks. I put her down at 8 or 9 pm but she wakes up every 45 mins or so stands in her cot and cries then I go in rock her to sleep again takes 10-15 mins. She does 3-4 times by 1 am. I tend to do my chores and want some me time but i have to keep going back to her to put her back to sleep. By 1 am i get to bed scroll a little and sleep and she is up again at 4 am i feed her. Then she will stay up for 2 hours and then go back to sleep again for 2-3 hours and even then she will be up 2-3 times and me having to rock her back to sleep. I don’t know why she keeps waking up? I feel like i get no time to myself. I don’t mind her waking up but not this many times.

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