My 9 month old isn't sleeping through the night 😩

Yeah it’s very normal for babies to wake until they’re a year old! It’s strange how society tells us they should start sleeping through when they’re 6 months or under. My ebf boy has slept through once. He is on one feed a night. If he’s waking an hour later it’s because he’s switching sleep cycles and needs you to help him get to sleep again. If you work on teaching him to link those sleep cycles then the number of wakes will reduce

My baby wakes every 4h, I'm lucky if I can get 5h or 6h 🤷‍♀️

My little boy is also waking a few times during the night some times for feeds and dome times for comfort. He is on 3 meals a day but dosnt eat very much. But still has the boob as much as he wants. Sometimes we are up anything from 3 to 6 to 9 time in the night

Sorry for the confusion, hes still drinking milk through out the day but way less than before now as majority of his diet during his wake hours is through food

Most babies don’t sleep through the night, for various reasons. It might be best you just forget about sleeping through 😂 I have! Not once has he, but he will when he is ready and not before.

you hit the nail on the head that we are told over n over about sleeping through. And asked is your little one sleeping through yet? 😵‍💫 then I’m told to keep him up all day… oh go away😂 mums are adding stress to their plates by looking for ways to to get them to sleep through.

My 9 month defo doesn't sleep through i wish ! Maybe get 4 hour stretch once in a while and to me that's a miracle lol! I would say don't stress babies will soon learn !

Like the other mums have said, sleeping through is rare, so probably best not to stress too much about that. Little longer blocks of sleep can still be big wins 😂 I took a weaning course provided by my boroughs community midwives and they say milk is still suppose to be baby's primary source of nutrition at this age. Perhaps reduce his solids intake and increase milk feeds? They said around 7-9mth olds should be on 20oz/600ml per 24 hrs and 10-12mths olds on 14oz/400ml per 24 hours. It may be arbitrary as every baby's appetite is different but worth considering 🤷🏾‍♀️

My daughter is 9 months and doesn’t sleep through - normally we get 2-3 wakes per night, but she often does a slightly longer stretch or two to start with (4-5 hours) and then is up every 2-3 hours after that… It’s rough, especially now I’m back at work, but I just try to keep reminding myself that she’s doing what’s biologically normal, that she’s not waking to be ‘bad’ or ‘annoying’ and that it’s actually a massive privilege to be the person she wants/needs to feel safe, comforted and ready to go back to sleep. She eats really well during the day, and it doesn’t seem to matter how much milk she’s had during the day (she has very little at nursery, despite their best efforts, but more when at home with me - but her sleep doesn’t seem any better/worse regardless!) so I’ve accepted this is just who she is right now, and I’m gonna roll with it as best I can…

I understand you ... my son wakes up about 10 times a night. I ventilated the bedrooms before going to sleep, fed it, a constant routine but nothing helps

Fiona got it for me. Baby is 9 months old, that's almost a month less than it took you to grow him (assuming you went full term). It's hard to know what's "right" between how fast they grow and how society tells us they should be self-sufficient ASAP. The message gets confusing.
My girl is up anywhere between once to 10 times a night. It really depends on how she's feeling and what she needs. If she has a cold, gas or is teething it's more often. Sometimes she is hungry and will drink 6 ounces, sometimes she just wants a snuggle.
I tend to follow her lead, she will let me know what she need best she can and will start sleeping through when she's ready physically and emotionally.

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haha exactly! I was often asked when my boy was only about 4 weeks old if he was sleeping through yet 🙈🙈🙈

This thread has really helped ladies! Thanks for sharing Naj.
My little girl wakes often between 2-8 times a night and it’s exhausting, but it’s so reassuring reading I’m not the only one up and down through the nights! Xxx

this! Literally people are obsessed with babies sleeping through. My girl has just started sleeping through in the last month. But even my own mum said she just assumed every Baby slept through - they must have drugged us as kids! I think it’s a gradual thing that babies learn as they get older - I personally felt happier that she woke! Obviously now I’m loving the uninterrupted sleep now she’s just turned 9 months x

Up right now for the past two hours trying to soothe my baby girl back to sleep. It's rough girl, hang in there

My daughter goes to bed between 9.9.30pm & wakes up for a bottle at around 3.30/4 am and will sleep until 9.30am which I think is okay waking up once

Since this my baby slept through once between 8-6! And he hasn't done it since that once night , and I didn't do anything different for him so just to let you know maybe it's nothing were doing wrong !