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Hi ladies my son is 4 and half months and since yesterday he wakes up multiple times in the night we don’t know what to do he use to sleep through the night

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This sounds like sleep regression. We are also going through it at the moment and LO is 5 months old. Hoping for it to pass on it’s own or we sleep train next week

I don’t even know how to sleep train cause he usually likes to cry it out not that we don’t comfort him but we tried everything rocking him bottle feeding doesn’t work so we leave him to cry for 10 minutes than he usually sleeps

from what I am reading feom multiple sources is that we don’t rock or feed them before putting them down. We are doing half the job otherwise and it takes longer. We stick to the preferred sleep training method even for night wake ups and only go in for checkin if doing ferber method or any other gentle method or let them CIO.

if your LO is already sleep trained and still waking up frequently at night, it could be the issue with wake times being too short or long. Apparently it is a science 😓

He have been doing CIO for weeks now and it’s been working now all of a sudden he wakes up two to three times a night but we aren’t sure if he is hungry so we feed him

my son has one maybe two naps a day but he has been like this since three weeks old I feel lucky that he sleeps from 11 till 6:30 or 7:30 expect when he goes through sleep regression he will wake up two or three times at night

with him it’s a guessing game he is so hard to put to sleep especially with naps he does maybe two naps a day

Sleep regression. My baby started sleeping alright around 2 months, then a month later, he started waking every two hours early in the night and every hour in the early morning hours. It sucked. My boyfriend had to take him for an hour or two every morning for quite a while because I felt like I was gonna go crazy without more sleep.

@Sasha if sleep is this bad at 4 months I can't imagine that dip at 8 months. I'm gonna be screwed.

he wasn’t hard to put down for naps before regression but that phase got over in like two weeks for us. Now I just follow wake windows for his age. He sleeps pretty easily if I am within those wake windows. I guess he is getting into the rhythm of schedule which I really wanted to happen before sleep training.

I’m 16 months in and all I can say is you’re not alone lol the strength of being a mother is DIFFERENT

No tips just in it with you. Currently on week 6 of sleep regression. He would go 10 hours of sleep at night, to now waking every 2-3 😭 and as a workin momma im TIRED

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Just out of curiosity, why do parents love zipper onesies?

Don’t get me wrong, I tried zipper ones it’s easy to zip in and out when putting it on the first time and taking it out, but I find it difficult when changing diapers especially when baby is asleep.

I prefer those kimono style buttons where it’s easy to button or too down button with crotch snaps.

Is everyone thinking the same or different? Lol

At this point I’m not enjoying motherhood

My 22 month old is horrendous at the moment🫣 biting, hitting, pushing, pulling and shoving not only adults but children he also wants what other children have and will just snatch it away from them.

We repeat ‘nice hands’ ‘be gentle’ ‘let’s share’ etc

But how do I make him understand what he’s doing isn’t very nice? At the end of the day I feel like I’ve just been saying his name all day and nothing else.

What can I do?

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My LO every feed. Drs don’t seem to think it’s a problem the whole Muslim cloth gets soaked so much I’m using towels now. I’ve tried size O teats he gets really frustrated and still spills it out :(

Dummy

My baby has had a dummy since about 2 weeks old (now 5 months) and over the course of the last month we weaned her off it during the day only for naps and night (which was fine) and then 5 days took it completely away during the day.

The first day no dummy was fine, the second bit rougher. But now it feels impossible she just moans and cries all the time it takes ages for her to go down to sleep (she’s always been an amazing sleeper)

I thought it was meant to get better as time went on not worse. I’m at my wits end I dunno what to do.

Currently typing this as she screams uncontrollably in the car and I cry with her cos I can’t do anything.

Of these two, which seems more overall “demanding” to you, overall? Lighthearted poll, not putting anyone down 🫶🏼

As a mum who breastfed for 3 years, I think formula feeding seems 100x harder and more demanding. I give those mamas all the credit because I could not keep up with that faff haha. I truly don’t understand why people say breastfeeding is more effort, other than the fact that no one else can do it. But personally I’d take that over endless bottle prep & cleaning.

Is this normal?

My 12m old is really funny with kids going near him, he’s always been this way, but anytime family’s kids sit next to him or head his way he moans or cries and moves away. He also really observes them and is never really relaxed, always looking over his shoulder. Has anyone experienced this? (He’s starting nursery properly tomorrow so hoping this helps) but is this normal?