Sleep patterns help

My baby is almost 5 mo and wakes up twice a night. Bedtime is from 7:30-8pm, and she wakes up like 3 times before midnight crying a lot then around midnight/2am, I give her some milk and she goes back to sleep. 2nd wake is around 4/5am i feed her and stay awake like for an hour.
She is a very hungry baby snd its eating a lot and we also started with solids 😭
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong 🫠 the next day its impossible for me to wake up at 7am if baby keeps waking up so much. Her 2 first nap are of 1 hour and the last nap 4:30 to 5:15 pm

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Have you tried sleep training where she can learn to self soothe? I'm about to start Ferber method with my baby. Maybe that'll help with her when she wakes up crying.

my little one sleeps by herself since she eas 3mo and half but the thing is her night time sleep she might think is naps what she is doing

Bedtime may be too early. My baby goes to sleep around 10 so that she will sleep until about 10a so that I can have a few hours in the morning. Also try to put some oatmeal in her bottle at night. It works for me, just a teaspoon and shake it up good

My LO goes to bed around 9 9:30 and that has worked best for us I tired doing bedtime around 7:30 and that was WAY to early for him… also he uses the dreamland sleep sack and that has helped ALOTTT too I rec 100% .
He will wake up around 2:30 to eat then wake up around 8am sometimes 9:30
He also takes 2 2 hour naps a day with that sleep sack he never did that before I purchased that sleep sack !

She is possibly going through a sleep regression right now. We do an 8 pm bedtime too and my LO sleeps through the night except when I wake her up because I feel like my breasts will explode if I don't.

Have patience and cross your fingers that this will soon pass.

What are you giving her for solids? When are you giving them to her?

i ll try to get that sleep sack to see if it helps.

U def should I have a discount code for buy 1 get 1 free but if u don’t wanna spend 90+ on a sleep sack which I can’t wrap my head around that price I would rec buying one off of Facebook market !

how do you manage your baby’s naps during the day, specially the last naps ?

I kinda force him to take a nap in a sense … I put that sack on him give him a bottle and put white noise on and rock him and he will eventually go to sleep but i def look if he’s giving me sleepy cues !

Sometimes It may take 35 min for him to sleep but he eventually does

she takes two naps one around 1-3 and the other from 6-8. She is 4 months..the first nap is usually in her swing and the other in the bed

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Can someone pls help i keep making this post and nobody is responding

My boyfriend booked a trip for us to go to mexico for a week as my push present. I have severe anxiety leaving my 7 month old with my mom. I know she will be in good hands but she’s exclusively breast fed for the most part but accepts bottles just fine. i have all my pumping parts packed and will pump when baby normally eats but i don’t want baby to forget me or have latch issues when i return!! any mommas ever experience this?

Postpartum

I’m only 3 days postpartum (FTM) and already have extremely bad anxiety. I’m crying every night, as I think of another night of no sleep. My baby will not settle in his cot, he cries every moment we put him down unless in his chair rocker. So me and my partner are having to alternate after 3/4 hours of being awake with him downstairs. I’m trying everything to get him to settle. It’s a load of overwhelming stress. I’m 23, I was desperate for a baby and now I have one and feel completely useless. I miss it just being me and my partner.

When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

Night time routine

Heya, my 3 week old daughter is currently exclusively breastfed and I’m not pumping. Can anyone recommend the best way to share the load with my partner? At the moment I’m doing all the feeds/burbs/settling and my partner is sleeping through which obviously isn’t sustainable, I’m trying to work out the best way to get him involved. Any advice very much appreciated!

Rapid cool/ hot shot method

Sorry if this sound stupid but how are we doing the hot shot method?
Are we boiling the kettle and letting it cool a little before adding to hot flask? Then with the cool water do you boil the kettle and leave it to cool right down before putting into another flask?
My baby brain is fried trying to work out the easiest way!

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.