Baby waking up middle of the night

My baby has started to randomly wake up in the middle of the night like so many others on this group probably the sleep regression, I don't know ☹ no idea at this point! I still have her in my own in her next to me crib, most nights though she will wake up crying and we end up Co sleeping. But the nights that she's awake and won't go back to sleep like today at 3am, tried feeding, rocking patting, cuddling, shushing the works. She just wants to be up and active. Usually this lasts for an hour max very rarely an hour half and then she'll be tired and go back to sleep. I currently keep the room dark, no lights and just try to put her back to sleep..minimal talking. Is this the best thing to do I've no idea? What does everyone else do? Should I take her out the room? I'm so exhausted at this point and barely awake and my partner 😤is fast asleep snoring his head off it makes me soooo mad!!! Last night baby was slapping his head and pulling his hair and he slept through it(!) I don't know what the point of this post is tbh I think I'm doing what I need to but I'm just annoyed lol he doesn't wake up and try settle her and sometimes he does and has the audacity to tell me to put her back to sleep(!) Eerr don't you think I'm trying?!?!? I'm not awake at this crazy hour by choice 😡 he works and I'm a SAHM atm so I get that I can nap in the day but he can't. But it still makes me mad esp his snoring!!! I feel like sleeping in the spare room his snoring sometimes keeps baby awake and in turn me for longer. Plus I got up this morning to find all the dinner dishes still in the sink unwashed, serving dishes still on the dinner table from last night !!! Baby woke up after I'd finished dinner so I went up to put her back to sleep and fell asleep myself thinking he'd have the sense to put some of it away at least. But no. Sigh. Just one of those days and needed to rant. 😑😔🤯
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Can relate to everything you've written here, down to waking up to dirty plates in the kitchen. My baby was wide awake at 2am, if I even attempted to get her back to sleep she screamed her head off. She just wanted to play. After an hour, I ended up waking my partner and telling him to help because his snoring was building a rage inside me. I then went into the kitchen and discovered the bottles he'd not bothered washing up for the morning so started rage cleaning those while he had baby. My baby has been in a permanent state of regression but the last few weeks with the long wakes overnight is a killer and is testing my patience because I so desperately need sleep 😴

Can relate! I posted about this at a 2am wake up this morning 🤣. I'm sorry I haven't got much to offer, but if you need to chat during those times or whenever please do so! I'm going through it too. Ours has been in a moses basket, and now tonight is his first night in a proper cot. So hopefully bag might work. Hang on in there 🥰🥰

Thanks @Sophie really appreciate your response. Sorry you're going through something similar 😔 I can definitely relate to the rage buildup! I think I've actually got PPR because the anger/resentment with my partner just builds up! I can also relate to the prolonged regression too it feels like it's going om forever 😫

It could be the snoring waking her up. Have you considered putting her in her own room? Our baby has slept so much better since being on her own, bigger cot and not disturbed by us at all. Might be worth a try see how it goes x

My little one was waking during the night and wanting to play. Turns out she was sleeping too long during the day and too late in the day. I only let her sleep for a max of 2.5hrs over 2 naps now and don’t let her sleep past 4pm. Try it and see if it helps 😊 xx

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