“It Gets Easier”

I guess it depends. My daughter is only just one year-old and I wouldn’t say it necessarily gets easier but you become more adept as a parent and a little more confident and trusting your mom intuition to handle situations. Seasons of sleeplessness truly feel never ending and its true that some babies are better sleepers than others, but it will get better in time!

I know what you mean. I hear that a lot too. I think it's more of a generic response, and would agree that you adapt and evolve with your growing child(ren). It's frustrating to hear thar response without anything constructive behind it, right?! My LO is 7 mo, and I feel like we just grew out of a good sleep phase, only lasted a week maybe. I keep telling myself it's because he's teething, or learning a new skill/ "trick" but DANG it's hard. Anything I ever read is about the delicate balance of day sleep and awake time. The only helpful thing I have to offer is use a tracking app to see a pattern. Otherwise, I'm there with you in sleep- deprived solidarity ❤️

have to agree tracking sleep is the best thing for little one you will get the magic formula down the quickest that way and when nap transitions happen makes things so much easier

I’ve heard some babies just don’t sleep well no matter how old they get! I’ve had a good sleeper since day 1 and 6m old she’s still a very good sleeper. Just take each day as it comes by maybe drop buba off with grandparents once a week overnight so you can get some rest? With babies no 2 days are the same but maybe a routine would help? Like a shower before bed etc?

My son is nearly 2 and I’m still waiting for it to get easier 🤣

I think its different for each child as to when it will 'get easier' but I guess it could be a few months or a few years but at some point they will sleep through the night just like we did once upon a time and they will play independently and give us 5 mins to relax and looking back I'm sure we will wish we had this time back, the sleepless nights will eventually be forgotten and you'll look back on this time and remember watching your baby grow, atleast that's what I like to think 🤔 xx

It absolutely DOES get easier hun, they’re not just saying it to comfort you, they’re trying to make you see the light on the other side of the tunnel. Other issues will arise and we’ll have to try and overcome them, but overall yes it does and it did get easier for me

We are 9 months now and I would defo say it’s easier don’t get me wrong we still have our phases of colds and teething and she’s on the move so it’s hard in a different way but I found where you are at now I checked your profile a difficult stage the sleep was something I never imagined yes I was naive ha I would say for the sleep get up get showered have a coffee and try get out if you can I find being in the house made me soooo tired it’s really hard to soak it in when you’re so sleep deprived but like you say you don’t want them to grow too fast I find motherhood such a world wind of emotions if you ever need to chat please feel free to message me

It 100% gets easier

When your baby starts sleeping through the night it gets easier. You’ll have more energy during the day. BUT for me, I am more physically and mentally exhausted at the end of the day with my 15 month old (but not sleepy). At least I get time to myself after he goes to bed. Soak it up - it flies by!

Rather than tell people it gets easier I just say (sincerely)' you do get used to it' , because you do, even if sleep etc doesn't improve immediately (or even for a few years, as in my case!)- you get used to it, you adapt and that makes it easier!