Sleep

Hey all, can anyone please give any advice on how to get my baby (almost 8months) to sleep more at night!! She’s waking every couple of hours for milk and if I don’t give milk then she won’t go back to sleep however, I fear im making this worse for myself giving milk every time. Any tips or advice welcome please xx

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Following! In the same boat xx

Same! I'm gnna wait for another month or so as there's a sleep regression around now but then I might try reducing feeds slowly. So like only feed if its after midnight, then 1am, then 2am slowly though. Or something people say you can reduce the volume of the feed slowly until you end up with nothing x

I also heard that if you replace the milk for water they will eventually stop wanting it so will stay asleep longer x

I tried the water thing last night, was a disaster haha! They just wouldn’t sleep with it. One twin was awake for so long until I caved and just gave milk. It’s so difficult xx

This was me. My baby now only wakes for one feed which I want to keep for a while.
I used Sleep well with Hannah. Find her on insta. She taught us to use a very gentle, intuitive approach to weaning those night feeds. Her course just requires you to watch the videos and it’s not expansive! I put off doing it and then only took 1 night of training for our little one. Can’t rate her enough xx

@Charlotte hey, I've seen lots of things online where you can buy videos or advice to help little ones sleep but worry it won't work 🫣 was your little one up every hour before? We're you sceptical?

I totally get that and I really put it off too. But I wish I’d done it as soon as she was old enough.
She didn’t wake every hour but every 2-3. It isn’t healthy for your baby to be waking that much and it isn’t good for them. That’s what I kept reminding myself. What’s the worst that could happen? It can’t get any worse and Hannah will have a way to help you.

My little one is so much happier now she sleeps anywhere between 6-10 hours on her own. And it really only took 2 sessions of training xx

We've found cosleeping good for this, they feel more secure that way I guess

My little one is 8 month and we dropped her night feeds around 6 1/2 months. I realised very quickly that she was waking up out of habit almost as if her body told her this is usual feeding time and therefore wasn’t sleeping through the night. When we weaned her off of the night feeds I made sure to up her bottle before bed and when she woke to 7oz (used to be 5oz) to ensure she was getting the extra milk and after about three nights she began to sleep through from 6:30 - 7am! Honestly dropping the night feeds was a game changer she now gets a much better quality of sleep and therefore her wake windows and nap times are a lot easier to manage x

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Can someone pls help i keep making this post and nobody is responding

My boyfriend booked a trip for us to go to mexico for a week as my push present. I have severe anxiety leaving my 7 month old with my mom. I know she will be in good hands but she’s exclusively breast fed for the most part but accepts bottles just fine. i have all my pumping parts packed and will pump when baby normally eats but i don’t want baby to forget me or have latch issues when i return!! any mommas ever experience this?

Postpartum

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When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

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Heya, my 3 week old daughter is currently exclusively breastfed and I’m not pumping. Can anyone recommend the best way to share the load with my partner? At the moment I’m doing all the feeds/burbs/settling and my partner is sleeping through which obviously isn’t sustainable, I’m trying to work out the best way to get him involved. Any advice very much appreciated!

Rapid cool/ hot shot method

Sorry if this sound stupid but how are we doing the hot shot method?
Are we boiling the kettle and letting it cool a little before adding to hot flask? Then with the cool water do you boil the kettle and leave it to cool right down before putting into another flask?
My baby brain is fried trying to work out the easiest way!

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.