More irritated at bed time?!

Does anyone else feel more irritated at bed time? My 14 month old is EBF and needs the boob to sooth himself to sleep and after a while of flipping around from one boob to the other and the scratching, pinching and whining I feel so irritated I just can’t help it then I feel guilty for being frustrated with him not going to bed 😭 I want to wean him off but I don’t want to do the cry it out method and I always give in he still wakes up 3+ times at night 😭

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Yep co sleeping with my 14 month old right now bc he woke up screaming at midnight and I nursed him back to sleep but everytime I tried to transfer him he cried so now he’s asleep next to me (was on top of me until about 15 min ago). He nurses to sleep every night and also wakes 3+ times a night. He slept better when he was under 6 mos but since then it’s been teething, learning new skills, daycare illnesses, etc

He needs to learn to self soothe himself. I was at my wits end and baby would wake up all night long sometime awake for hours in the night. I resorted to cio when she was 1. And it worked straight away. Shes slept through ever since.

I do miss feeding to sleep ❤️ but a full nights sleep makes it better 😂

It is fantastic that you bf so long and that you will not do cry it out!

I don’t understand why people use cry it out knowing about all the negative effects. Your babies are smarter than you think and just doing this to them is stupidity. Not harsh, just stupid.

There are way easier ways to wean at night. At your baby’s age they understand day/night and full/empty already

Bf to sleep is it causing wake ups

Do read here for evidence based help; https://possumsndc.com/free-resources

thank you so much for this information was reading on it and watched some videos definitely going to try it out! 🫶🤞

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Please tell me I’m not the only one who finds it near impossible to get out of the house with my LO 😓 She’s 4.5 months and I’ve barely gone outside since giving birth. Where I live it’s still super cold and the 3 times I attempted an outdoor walk with her she started crying after 10 minutes…
She won’t nap or nurse on the go anymore and still nurses every 1.5-2 hours. Up until 4 months her cluster feeding was so frequent I couldn’t go anywhere because of that. I’m completely house bound and going crazy. I feel like every other new mom I see on my social media is out to restaurants, Pilates classes, vacations, etc with their babies and for some reason I’m the only one who can’t handle it. Tell me this gets easier 😭

Edit: *it’s not because I worry about OTHER people with my baby’s crying- her crying stresses ME out especially because I know I’m depriving her of food or sleep because I went further than 30 minutes from our house and she won’t nurse or nap until we get home. It just feels like too much hassle and stress to bother.

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Bedtime

Hi mamas. I let my baby watch kids videos for bedtime until he gets asleep. Am I a worse mum??

How many naps does your 4MO have?

Hi ladies, just wondered how many naps your bubbas are having a day?

My little girl sleeps from 7:30pm - 6:30am ish and is still having around 5 naps a day. Her WW vary from an hour up to around 1hr 30/45 mins. I keep reading everywhere about babies transitioning to 3 naps a day but I just don’t see how this is possible as my LO gets so fussy if I push her WW too long.

TIA 🙏🤞

Am I over reacting?

MIL came over on sunday to help with childcare, I'm heavily pregnant so she said why don't you go for a nap while I'm here.
I had a 2 hr nap upstairs and during that time she fell asleep on the sofa for 1.5 hrs. I know because we have security cameras round the house which i looked at later on after she'd gone.
My daughter slept for 30 mins on her, on the arm of the sofa and then the rest of the time she was left with the TV on.
I'm really annoyed because we have a wooden floor, a coffee table that she tries to climb on, she had hair ties which she often pulls out and tries to chew therefore a choking risk.
She's 20 months old.
Am I over reacting?
The worst thing is when I came downstairs after my nap, she 'she's not had much sleep only about 10 minutes'. But idk how she'd know that because my daughter woke up ages before she did.

BF babies and sleep

Out of curiosity guys, how long are your breastfed babies sleeping for at night? We're still on 2-3 hours here!