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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

Dummy or no Dummy

I’m considering a dummy to help my 6 week old sleep through the night. He currently wakes 3-4 times in the night (not always for a feed as can be 1 hour post feed). I’m interested in other people’s experience with a dummy and whether it helped their little ones sleep through the night. I’ve heard good things but also worry if it’ll cause more wake ups if it falls out and he wants it back and needs us to put it back.

Would welcome any advice on dummy usage and/or sleeping for longer stretches

Rubbing eyes keeping self awake and holding hands down gently

Hello,
My little girl is 6 months old. Her sleep has always been mostly ok. I feed her to sleep, hold her for 20 minutes and then transfer her to her next to me. I keep my hand on her chest for a minute and take it away slowly.
Since the weather has been warmer she has struggled with sleep. I do my same routine but as soon as I put her down, she’s awake and begins furiously rubbing her eyes and gets sad. Last night I took her downstairs and lay next to her next to me, and held her hands down gently, she slept if I kept them there. Which is fine in the short term, but not a great long term solution. Has anybody else had this? She’s rolling when playing on the floor, do you think it’s time to move to the cot where she could get herself to sleep on her front?

What would you do?

What would you do if your toddler (2.8) was having a huge tantrum and kicking and screaming over getting their nappy changed and you had already tried the gentle approach? I spent ages before being calm and in the end I had to just put it on him regardless of crying and hold him down a little. Am I in the wrong for this because according to my mum, this is not ok 😬😂 and if not, I would love to know what the right thing to do is here….

Red Kite Mattress

We’re considering getting the Red Kite travel cot but I’ve seen a lot people recommend getting a mattress too.

Can anyone recommend one please ? uk 🫶

Anyone else feel like their life revolves around their baby’s sleep?

I can’t help but feel so frustrated as for months now it feels like my only focus in life is my baby’s sleep. Naps are difficult, night time sleep is a daily battle. I just can’t see an end to it. I know it’ll eventually get better by that time I feel like I will have lost the plot! Just needed a rant and to see if others are experiencing the same issue.

Baby only sleeping in our arms

Advice needed. My 5 week old baby girl has never been a good sleeper, and will only sleep at night or in the day in our arms. Ironically, when she’s being held all night she sleeps soundly and only wakes once or twice.

The trouble is this is really affecting me and my husband. We currently take shifts to stay awake and hold her at night while she sleeps, but we’re dangerously close to exhaustion and I’m really struggling to stay awake, I’ve even fallen asleep accidentally a couple of times with her in my arms, which I know is really dangerous.

How can we cope better with this, and is there any way we can get her to sleep better laying down? I’ve tried cosleeping, but unfortunately this also hasn’t worked…

Sleeping through the night yet?!

Hi moms! Since our babies are now 4 months old. I want to ask are any of your babies still waking up several times at night? My LO still wakes up multiple times. More so after 5am. For instance the other night/morning he woke up at 1a / 4a / 5:30a / 7a / 9a. Last night was 11p / 4a / 6:30a / 8a . He gets to bed at 9/9:30pm.

He has always been like this. I’d say he has slept from 9/9:30-5a five times in total. Three of which were a couple weeks ago and I thought omg we are getting somewhere then boom back to this! I’m so sleep deprived. Haven’t had a regular nights sleep since before he was born. I can’t hang anymore!

He is exclusively breast fed. Could that be why? I also started bed sharing with him when he was a month old thinking that would help. It did at first because before bed sharing I’d get zero hours of sleep, but I want him in a crib ideally.

My best friend said she’s never heard this from any mom, that he should be sleeping through the night more and have a routine by now. Asked me if he’s getting enough to eat. That makes me feel even worse!! What am I doing wrong? 🥺

Wake window before bed

What is your typical wake window before bed?

Back to 3 naps?

Has anyone else's little ones started reverting back to 3 naps? We were down to 2 for a month or two, but the last week or so he's napping 3 times again? Is this normal? He's 9, nearly 10 months.

Toddlers who have dropped their nap...

What time do they go the sleep and what time do they wake up?

Anyone else’s babies naps gone to trash?

She won’t nap for longer than 30 minutes; sleep is great she’ll sleep through but naps are awful. We contact nap but even with them they are awful; she won’t nap in cot or pram. Idk what to do 😭😭

Annoyed

It must be nice to be a husband/dad and get to sleep in unbothered while your wife and mother of your children are up before 6am with the kids. But sure, go ahead and sleep until 1:00. We move in 6 days, it’s not like there’s anything we need to get done or anything 😒

Bedtime for breastfed baby

Hi everyone, I’m wondering if anyone may have any advice or is in a similar boat as me. My little girl constantly wakes up during the night and wants boob. She’s not hungry as she eats solids so it’s just comfort. I settle her a few times a night before giving in and bringing her into my bed so I can get some sleep. Every night is the same, she ends up co sleeping. She has never slept all night through and I’m absolutely exhausted. Does anybody else have a baby like this, if so what has worked for you?

7 weeks and struggling

My LO is 7 weeks old and lately he has been struggling to sleep during the day like once he wakes up from his morning nap around 11 it’s hard for him to fall asleep…he will take small naps like 20 minutes and wake up and around 4 later in the day till around 6/7 he will struggle to sleep he will be crying all the time idk if that’s the colic or something else…how can i deal with this

On another note, Because I am a stay at home mum I try my best to make sure he falls asleep on me until he is in deep sleep before I can transfer him to his bed but my MIL thinks I am spoiling him because I leave him at her place sometimes and he doesn’t want to be put down at all and she is like it’s because I always have him in my arms so I am causing trouble for the rest of the family…now idk what to do am I being a bad mum? Because they expect me to put him down so he can self soothe but I feel he is too young …how can I handle this please help

Sorry it’s too long 😫😫😫😫

Two naps

Is anyone on two naps still and find it actually works better for them than a 1 nap day? If so, what time and length are the naps?

Naps all over the place

Anyone else's baby take their nap so early after waking and then not go down for a second meaning they're having wake windows of 8 or more hours?! Don't know how to end the vicious cycle! Early wake up means early nap, then no second nap means early bedtime

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