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False Start Bedtimes

Starting to despair a little bit. LO is 6.5 months and never been a sleep through the night baby, but we did get to a stage where we had our evenings. We have a good bedtime routine and he would go down and stay down until possibly 10pm or 2am, and then probably wake every 2 hrs. Nothing has changed except now he goes down and is waking every 45mins throughout the evening and he will not settle for anyone but me (fine in the day). It’s like he’s not even awake but won’t settle unless he’s cuddled and often he instantly falls asleep again when picked up (if it’s me). I thought it was a phase, and we are getting a few 1.5hr stretches now but just looking for a bit of hope really… has anyone come through it? I can’t imagine moving him to his own room at this rate as I’ll never see my bed…

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I could have written this 🥲. I’m praying this is just a phase and we will get passed this

Yep although it feels like I’ve been going through this for over a month already 😭

Ive found it’s usually daytime naps that need changing what are naps like? Xx

This is exactly the same as my girl, sometimes even less between wakes ups in thr evenings, it's so bloody hard hopefully it doesn't go on for too long

Oh gosh it’s such a relief to hear. So sorry everyone is in it too, but feel like strength in numbers really helps mentally at the moment! It just feels like it’s been going on for so long and I was starting to regain a bit of my “pink” back. Trying really hard to make sure he gets a good nap in the day, he just woke after 35 mins so I rocked him to back to make sure over tiredness isn’t doing it! He’ll also doze in the morning when we bed share, soundly asleep from 6-8.30 sometimes 😂 but we’ve decided to start waking up at 7.30 to try and get a sense of routine in the day…

@Rachel he tends to go a couple of hours between naps, but still struggling for that long afternoon nap which then throws the last one! I’m hopeful that implementing a day routine of waking at 7.30 will make things easier. What do you do?

@Charlotte same 💔

I rarely do 3 naps to be honest 😂 she mainly has two naps a day and sleeps 11/12 hours overnight. If she fights a 3rd nap which she does I never bother with it 😂 she wakes from her last nap around 2 and goes to bed around 7 xx

@Rachel how is she doing with such a long last stretch? Grumpy or used to it? Think we just got ourselves into a rut of “his wake windows are x” can’t go any longer, when actually he’s growing so quick 😂

I don’t use wake windows my son didn’t follow them and now my daughter doesn’t either. She’s fine got used to it I guess she can be a bit grumpy but overall she’s fine. I never stress about naps especially if she’s fighting them. Xx

sorry, i think i’m a bit confused with the way the post is written. what’s like an average daily routine? by ‘routine’ i mean loosely as in how many naps and when does he go down for sleep sleep at night? x

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