The blissful baby expert

No but my baby naturally falls into this routine anyway and for the past two weeks has been having really awful night sleep!! Literally on the brink of exhaustion 😵‍💫 before this, she’d go to bed at 7, feed at 10pm and then back to sleep with usually one more waking for a feed at 4/5… back to sleep then until 7/8. So yeah, this routine was working really well until we were hit with the regression!

interesting to know! Thank you x

Yes

@melissia does it work for you and does your little one sleep til 7? X

My worry with this sort of thing is what flexibility it gives you if you want to see someone or do something, does it provide for that?

yeh she sometimes is later then that

you do it while your out
So I’ll go toilet change her put pjs on
Night time blanket, White nosie, same routine just skip the bath xx

This works for our little one most of the time. for us, we are very routine based and were like this for our first too. My partner and I just made a choice to sacrifice the first 12-15 months of each baby’s life and giving up certain meet up’s and events in return for great sleep! For us it’s 100% worth it, but definitely does take away any type of flexibility as you noted. We would rather stick to a routine and deal with a well rested baby and get a full night sleep temporarily then an over tired, unrested baby. I do know many friends whose babies are really good at sleeping on the go so they have the flexibility and good night sleep but we are just not willing to find out 😂 By the time they’re a little over 1 year old you can be more flexible so one year goes by super fast and we are sticking with our routines 😊

It feels wrong to wake baby at night 😂 my LB is in a very similar routine to this (of his own accord) but I don't wake him at 11pm to feed. He usually wakes around 4am for a feed, I have wondered if feeding at 11pm would mean sleeping through but afraid to risk it

I tried the waking up fully for the 10/11pm feed rather than dream feeding and hated myself as soon as I did it, he was awake for an hour after the feed babbling away and made no difference to his waking up times

@Laura yeah this would be my hesitation

We do the dream feed at 10pm but don’t wake my little one!