Routine tips

Hi! My baby is 6 months and Ive never had a strict routine down for her other than bathtime at 9 and bed by 10. She would sleep till 8am pretty much every day. Right around Christmas she started waking up religiously at 3 am. No matter what I did. Now it changes, she will wake up around 3-5am play for a bit, have some milk then sleeps again till around 8-9 am. Do you guys have set routines? We just started incorporating solids for breakfast and dinner (not that she actually eats it? Just plays around with the food). Should I incorporate a routine during the day for naps and such? If so how did you establish one? I need help 😞 FTM here

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I just started doing semi-scheduled naps. I just use wake windows. I've been tracking them and he is usually about 2 hrs 15 minutes. I move bed time up based on the wake windows as well. I can't keep to a strict schedule and really neither can he. Some days he naps for 2.5 hrs some days it's 20 minutes.

I find that if my son goes to bed around 8 he sleeps a lot better than he would if he went to bed super late or super early. Maybe she needs more of a routine. Every baby is so different though and it could just be a sleep regression she’s going through. Both of my babies slept through the night up until 4months old and then just woke up almost every hour to two hours. It’s so hard when they wake up from sleep so early! Don’t be too hard on yourself, I’m sure you are doing a great job and she will soon get back to sleeping through the night❤️

Thank you! Ive been starting to track her naps to see if there’s a pattern and try to create more of a structure.

Is she teething? That can throw off schedules

she already got her two bottom teeth at 3 months. So could it be the top? How do I know?

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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 😩😩

Help! First time mum -

I have a 4 month old and now all of a sudden when he’s been asleep for 1hr30/2hrs he will wake up screaming (high pitched) I’ve tried winding him sometimes that helps, I’ve tried bicycle legs & bringing his knees up but that doesn’t seem to help but he brings his knees up himself sometimes but nothing happens. I’ve noticed since the 4 month mark he has started to struggle passing wind downwards! Any tips?

Don’t want to leave my first born😭😭😭

Anyone else extremely sad and anxious to leave their first born😭

He’s 2 and we have never not put him to bed or be here for when he wakes up😭

I’m so sad and anxious about leaving him

Help meeee

!!All advice welcome!! My 5 month old (nearly 6mo) is just not sleeping . Not for naps and not at night . She can’t connect her cycles . We started sleep regression at 3 months but in like how is this nearly been going on for a further 3 months . Like surely not . She has 10 min naps in crib ( which take so much effort ) and maybe 20/30 min naps in my arms/pushchair . She wakes minimum every hour at night with guaranteed false start 20 mins in . I combo feed. I breastfeed her until almost asleep then place her in the next to me crib give her the pacifier and put my hand on her cheek/face for 20 seconds and she drifts off . It’s not really getting her to sleep that’s the issue it’s she just won’t stay asleep . She doesn’t even need to feed much at night usually 1-2 breastfeeds . The rest is comfort wakes needing her pacifier or my hand on her cheek . I’ve looked into sleep associations and independent sleep and I broke the feed to sleep association and rocking and do bedside comforting instead for most wakes which has now lead to my hand being a sleep association on her face . I’m just so exhausted my husband is working mon-fri 9-9 and it’s just me . I haven’t had more than 4 hours in a row since her birth . I can’t get anything done during the day . She is so clingy and cries if I leave room /put her down etc. I love her so much but we both need rest . If anyone has any tips or a routine that could help PLEASE tell me I’ll try anything 🥲❤️❤️

Feeding to sleep

FTM here! 👋

Are you guys feeding your baby to sleep?

I just read feeding to sleep is creating bad habit and baby will always cry etc when awake at night expecting to get bottle before falling asleep again. 🤔
It said should feed the baby, give a bath (or not) and then put to sleep.
I do other way around - bath, pjs/lotion, rock to sleep and feed at the same time and then baby falling asleep.
Am I creating a bad habit? Been doing it all the time really. 😳

Feeds

How many times a night are your little ones getting up? My daughter is every 90-110 minutes. I am absolutely exhausted and don’t know how much more I can cope