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My baby is almost 10 months old and she’s waking up so much in the night it’s been going on for months
She has a bath at 7 then gets ready for bed has a bottle about 8 and goes to sleep as soon as I put her in her cot she wakes so I pick her up and she falls back asleep then I put her down she sleeps for an hour then wakes still tired I pick her up she’s falls back asleep on my shoulder etc then she will wake about half 11 for a bottle then she will sleep till about 3 then 5 then 7:30 like why is she waking so much it’s like she can’t link her sleep cycles I’m so exhausted

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Mines started waking up loads as well, I just don’t get it, it’s been a week now at least, I’ve lost track 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m wondering if it’s because he’s trying to crawl/walk all at the same time. But yeah I feel the frustration…

Yh I think they’re just going through so much development but then other babies her age are sleeping through the night 😩

maybe those babies aren’t doing all the crawling / walking yet… or they’ve already mastered it so they’ve got over this stage… I don’t know. I’m guessing. I just hope you like coffee. 😂 about to make myself a large one!

Yh she defo can’t link them is there any way I can teach her to link them or am I fucked x

My LO is doing exactly the same! We cut his day napping time to two hours and it seemed to help a little, we had a few wake ups but he would settle straight back and would sleep untill 8. But last night I saw every hour & he was wide awake 3-5am 😢
He sleep has gone awful the last few months xx

definitely just an age thing i think, mine used to sleep right though was lovely, now he will wake me up between 3-5am every day but he doesnt go to bed til 9pm, so if he went earlier hed be up earlier. think its just somethting we have to go through but at least were not alone in it

they’re both just good sleepers always have been it’s so unfair lol not a fan of coffee but my morning tea has 3 big sugars in it 😂😂

so how would I do that I don’t want to like let her cry etc I do wait and sometimes she’ll go back to sleep but then she will start dramatically crying so I go and get her x

honestly it’s rough even her naps in the day are short and she fights them I hate it cause you lack energy in the day then feel bad cause you’ve not done enough with them
Yeah I’m awake at the dreaded 3-5 😩xx

it’s so rough I think her teeth are coming through as she’s terrible today moaning like she’s in pain aggressively chewing 😢

If she sleeps longer than 45 mins she can link sleep cycles.

This age is notoriously hard for sleep.

My LO was waking 3/4 times a night and having false starts.

The game changer for us was looking at her average sleep (naps and overnight) in 24 hours and building her sleep around that. We realised we were aiming for too much sleep so she wasn’t tired enough.

She needs 13 hours of sleep on average and is in bed 8pm-7am so only needs 2 hours of naps in the day. Once we worked that out (had previously been aiming for 3 hours naps and 12 hours in bed at night) she only wakes once for a feed- which she needs as I can tell she’s hungry. Xx

Mine is waking every hour these days and it is exhausting. Looking for some help too.

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