By Tassia O'Callaghan
May 18, 2023
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11 min read
Reviewed by Alicia Dyshon,
Infant & Toddler Sleep Specialist
By Keshia Sophia Roelofs
By Deborah Vieyra
By Deborah Vieyra
By Deborah Vieyra
By Deborah Vieyra
By Deborah Vieyra
So, I messed up. I was in charge of ordering the furniture for the nursery and I ordered a cot and not a cot bed. It’s already built and the packaging has been thrown so there’s no way of sending it back. What do I do? Wait till baby is 18 months then buy a bed? Or sell this cot and buy a cot bed?
Not sure if I’m over thinking it.. my little girl is 1 week old and she’s been doing 3/4 dirty nappies a day but today she has only done 1 and 7 wet nappies. Is this normal?
When you have tried literally EVERYTHING to get your baby to nap and they won’t, what do you do? I have been trying to get my baby to sleep for 2 hours now and I’ve tried rocking, feeding, independent crib time, bouncing in the bouncer, walking around. He keeps yawning and crying and all the trying to get him to sleep is making me so tired and irritated. I want to just put him in his crib and leave him be, but I’m not a cry it out mom. He hasn’t had a single nap today btw. He literally refuses to sleep every day. He sleeps great at night tho.
Anyone feeling like they are doing something wrong when seeing other people mention how their baby can do 7/8 hour stretches at night snd mines currently doing four. I feel like I’m doing something wrong.. any tips to help bsby sleep longer? baby boy is 7 weeks old.
I know I may have a unicorn baby so know a lot of people won’t have this ‘problem’ but my baby is sleeping rather long stretches. Tonight he went to sleep at 8:30 and had a feed at 7:45, at 2:30am he was still asleep but as it had been almost 7 hours since his last feed I got him up and fed him. I was feeling engorged but not super super engorged but uncomfortable. I’m worried going such long stretches (he’s only 9 weeks old) will decrease my supply. He’s a big chunk and has always been a good weight and looks healthy. What do I do? Continue to wake him? If I don’t do i need to pump instead? Help.
I think this might be a stupid question but 🤣 I’m lucky in that my baby girl has been a really good sleeper since 3 weeks old (she’s 15 weeks now) but I think we are getting to sleep regression time, at the moment she is still sleeping through but I’ve noticed the past few nights she is struggling more to go down and seems more restless through the night so I think we might be heading for some wake ups! My question is if she does start waking in the night again do I give her a bottle or just try to soothe back to sleep? I don’t want to get into a routine of feeding through the night to soothe her but obviously don’t want her to be hungry either! Probably overthinking it tbh 🤣 Thank you 🥰