Sleeping

My baby is 2 months old now and recently I have started napping her in her cot in her own room throughout the day and she’s gone from napping for 20 mins at a time to hours at time!! I’m keen to get her in her own room at night asap as she’s a noisy little sleeper😂 when is it acceptable for me to do this? I know midwife’s advise 6 months but I don’t feel waiting that long is necessary for us. Out house is a tiny 2 bed with our bedrooms right next door to each other. Advise please l

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I read in cribsheet by Emily Ostler that the risk of SIDS goes down massively once they can roll from front to back and vice versa so my plan is to move her once she can do that. Everyone's going to have a different view on risks vs benefits. Babies who sleep for longer stretches are actually a higher risk of SIDS so for me I wouldn't be making a decision based on that. X

How did you manage to get to day naps like that?

honestly until this week she’s been a nightmare for fighting sleep and was only napping for like 20 mins at a time! So I just tried putting her down upstairs in her own quiet room with the white noise machine on and blinds closed. As before she was napping downstairs and on me most of the time! And it’s honestly just worked for her x

you gave me hope, as I have the same - maybe 15 min if not on me or on the walk.

yes walking in the pram was the only other way to get her to sleep longer than 20 minutes and because the weather has been rubbish this week I had to try sometimes else!

With my first I had her in her own room at 4 months. She had a monitor on and it was literally on the other side of the landing with both bedroom doors open. We both got better sleep once we did it and I’ll probably do the same with my 10 week old x

It is due to SIDS risks that it is advised all sleep should be in the same room as you until at least 6 months. It's down to you if you wish to do something different to suit you, but it's important to be informed of the risks. https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/safer-sleep-advice/

Same here for the day naps!

I have a 22month old, so no chance of baby napping downstairs..soon as it gets to the end of a wake window..I take him home upstairs in a dark room, white noise and of course a monitor on.
But same, he now has 1-2 hour nap in the morning and PM nap is 3hours at least.

The difference to my first..I was so scared to put her in a different room..but this time round definitely been easier without all the worries.
My first was 6months. But I would do earlier, as I remember I couldn't sleep with her, being so noisy

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

AITA

In the uk there is an outbreak of meningitis, in a specific area mainly. My BD has family from that area and decided to go and meet up with them, I said if he does then he cannot have contact with the kids for 7-10 days after incase he picks anything up. Am I being over dramatic? I reallyyy don’t want my young kids getting anything serious

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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