5.30am wake ups! 😅

Hey all - my little lady is 17 months, teething heaps, and constantly waking up at 5.30am!! I try putting her back down, I’ve tried bongela, cuddles, and at a last resort mill - but she is just up!

Anyone else having this issue - and how have you got them back to sleep? 🤷‍♀️

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Wtf- husband edition

The past 2.5 months or so, I’ve been the primary night time (and daytime) caretaker of our 5 month old. I feed him formula before bed, then breast feed him on demand throughout the night. Before, we’d have shifts through the night in different beds so each of us could get sleep. My husband started sleeping in the same bed as us around that time and he’s moves aggressively in his sleep and snores. As you can imagine, I don’t get much sleep. The only time I get uninterrupted sleep is for 4-5 hours in the morning when the baby sitter gets here. Meanwhile my husband sleeps 6-7 hours each night, no problem.
Tonight, I told him I really needed alone time and sleep for my mental health. He agreed and offered to take the baby and try to put him to sleep.
Knowing our child, I told him some of the different things to try to get him calm or keep him calm. The quickest way being to get in a warm shower with him. He agreed.
So why did I have to listen to my baby crying for about 45 minutes??? I tried to let my husband figure things out but eventually I couldn’t take it anymore. I got out of bed and went and asked if he put the baby in the shower and he said “no, that takes too much effort”.
WHAT??
I do bath time almost every day!! He has done bath time ONCE in the five months.
I asked for just a couple of hours to myself to sleep and he can’t do whatever it takes so baby isn’t crying so I can sleep??
I’m livid.
I ended up taking our son. He just fell asleep on the boob and, of course, my husband came and fell asleep too. Somehow I’m the only one awake after I asked for much needed sleep.
I know arguing won’t help but I’m so upset. I just needed to vent and maybe cry.

Weird feelings

I am now 2 and a half months PP, and I was just looking at my scar. It feels so surreal to me. I had to have an emergency C-Section after 20 hours of labor and an induction that worked too fast. It's so strange to me that this scar is on my body, that it's where my baby came out of. Everything was completely the opposite of my original birth plan, but I could not be more thankful that they caught the reason for my c-section when they did. That still doesnt change the... almost impostor syndrome I feel when I look at my body and my scar. I've changed so much, it's so strange to me

Rant

I love my partner to absolute bits but omg the snoring I could go insane, my baby was cluster feeding last night which meant I was up till 3 in morning with him I finally get to sleep baby wakes us both up at 6:30 so feed him by time had finished my partner was back asleep and snoring his bliddy head off woke the baby back up then finally settled him again only to me not being able to sleep kept waking partner up didn’t make difference ended up going downstairs which woken baby up again only for him to have another feed cause by this time it’d been 2 hours since the last so now currently almost 9am and I’m wide awake baby’s starting to get to sleep so looks like I’m surviving the day on 3 hours sleep yay and on a busy day 😕 little pic of the man in question and my lil bubba boy

6 month sleep regression?

Hey mums!!

My daughter is 6m old and her sleep has completely been thrown off for the last week! Before now she would sleep from 6:30pm - 5am have a bottle and then go to sleep until about 7:30am (sometimes sleeping all night) and suddenly now, she’s up every 2/3 hours!

We were “warned” about the 4 month sleep regression but never experienced that as my daughter has always been a great sleeper (something that we don’t take for granted) but haven’t heard of them going through a 6 month sleep regression - I am wondering if anyone else’s LO has gone through the same thing?

I’m keeping to routine, so nothing has changed and she’s very happy in herself - I guess it’s one of these things 🩷

Antibiotics and breast milk.

Has anyone taken antibiotics and noticed that it has affected their breast milk? I have been on antibiotics for a week (4 a day) and every time my baby has breast milk she is immediately sick afterwards and cranky. (This was never an issue before being on antibiotics), so I have been pumping and pouring away my milk (which is soul destroying) until I finish the tablets. She has been having formula instead and isn’t being sick with that at all and seems much more settled.

What age do babies start sleeping through the night??

I know it's different for everyone but what age did your baby start sleeping through?