Never improving sleep

Just wanted some reassurance or to see if we are alone in the cycle of terrible sleep. Our 8 mo daughter goes down at around 7.30/8 she will then wake every 1/2 hours until 11.30 when I feed her. Try then to put her back in the cot but normally she wakes within about 30/40 mins so we bring her into bed. She then wakes at 3 and then around 6 for feeds. I was half ok with her co sleeping until recently she wakes quite often in the bed too and has to be touching my mouth. Is this amount or waking normal? Anyone else going through this? Should we sleep train?
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I don't know if you are formula feeding or breastfeeding but I'm in the same position. My son is ebf and from 6 weeks old he would sleep through the night until he hit 4 months. After that we seem to hit every sleep regression going waking up every half hour to an hour. Then the teething really kicked in and it just got worse. Every now and then he will sleep and initial 4 hour block but they are very rare. He's almost 8 months old. So no you are not alone. There are many sleep deprived mamas out there. We just need to hang in there as it will get better, don't know when but it will 😊

Very normal and personally would never advocate for sleep training

You are not alone. I’m broken. Second baby. Good sleeper as newborn, terrible since 4 month regression. 30 minute naps all day, always grumpy and wanting more sleep after naps but can’t hold as have another. Goes to bed 7/7.30 , wakes 10pm, 1am, 4am for feed and then often needs holding from 4am until we get up with her at 6am. Every time I think it’s getting better her sister brings home yet another cold from nursery and it gets worse again. I can count on one hand the number of times she has done a 4-5 hour stretch. By this point my first was only waking once a night for a feed and I swear had consolidated her naps. It’s so hard !

Mine goes down (in her cot) around 20:00 and the absolute max we get before first wake up is an hour. My husband tends to be the one to deal with her wake ups between 20:00 and when I go to bed (22:00ish) because I just need a bit of time “off duty”. On a good night, she wakes after an hour, my husband resettles her and we get another hour. On a bad night she will wake continuously until I give up and go to bed. Most nights sit somewhere in between. Once I go to bed she comes in with me cos I can’t deal with the waking every 10-20 mins all night. At least when she’s in with me she does solid stretches, she typically wakes at 02:00 and 05:00 wanting milk. So yeah, you’re not alone!

Terrible sleeper since 4 month regression and that’s with cosleeping most the night. Before then a couple weeks ago he wouldn’t sleep independently at all. Now he can sometimes do a two hour stretch at the beginning of the night. Wakes on average every 1.5 hours in bed with me and needs a little cuddle to get back off and I do a bottle around 1am when the cuddle doesn’t work.

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