Baby still not sleeping through night
Anybody else’s baby still not sleeping through the night? Mine was sleeping 9 hours, in his own room and not waking for a bottle then suddenly for 3 weeks now he won’t settle without me and won’t go back sleep without a bottle. He was born end of September. He will “ahh” really loudly until I get him and sometimes wakes everyone up in the house if I try to leave him to settle on his own because he’s not crying.
I’m trying break the wake up in night means bottle but he just won’t go back to sleep without it. But also I think his last bottle is usually 7.30-8.30pm so 3-4am waking up probably isn’t too bad. His sister would go 12 hours without milk and I’d usually have to wake her.
He does only have 4/5 bottles (240mls) including his night bottle. I’m a pumping mum so when I leave sometimes he wakes up. My MIL is suggesting I drop my night pump because he should be sleeping through. My daughter was sleeping through by now. But I have an oversupply and can’t go more than 5.5 hours without getting blocked milk ducts and breast consultant said to continue night pump until he’s 1.
I’m honestly so tired of the wake ups to come in my room, the being unsettled until I finally cave in to give him a bottle and me needing to pump. I barely get 2 hours of undisturbed sleep going to bed after my last pump for the day. I’ve said to my fella if he doesn’t start sleeping through soon I’m not returning to work in September. I can’t do my job with this much lack of sleep. Feels like it’ll never end. My partner can’t help because he does overtime for us to survive financially.
Any advice? Is it another regression taking a while to go?
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Mine hasn't slept through even once. Has never done more than 2 hours. Currently 5.30am and he thinks it's party time. I am exhausted
It’s actually not that common for babies to sleep through. My 3 year old still wakes up most nights.
My 7 month old has her good and bad nights, usually due to development, such as teething, learning new skills, separation anxiety etc. just keep sticking with your routine and they will start to improve again eventually x
My other daughter also slept through by this point too so I find it hard not to compare, but for some reason my baby at the minute won't drink more than 3 ozs during the day, as in physically will not do it, however come bed time bottle and over night, she'll drink 7ozs each time at like 10pm, 1am, 4am 🥲 it's v frustrating, though she does go straight back to sleep after each of these lol. I feel like it is still normal though for our babies to not sleep through yet unfortunately 😭 x
My 3 year old has slept through about 12 nights in his life, many of his friends didn’t sleep through reliably until 18m or older. I pumped for him and it is so hard when you’re up to pump then the baby wakes up and needs feeding too, but if you continue to pump often then you’ll continue to generate that supply - I stopped night pumping at 6 months by gradually doing it later and later to stretch out the period between pumps, otherwise you’ll still have the same issues when he’s 1 trying to stop the night pump. My 6m old is up once or twice a night as well as the toddler and you do just get used to the chronic lack of sleep!
Mines actively got worse since weaning started which seems particularly unfair
Not helped that we can’t cuddle her through it without resorting to feeding or she wakes the toddler
Mines never slept through because he still wakes up every 4 hours for bottle. I am exhausted from it and has fully drained every bit of energy from me
My son was also born the end of September, he’s never slept through without a bottle so we would give him a dream feed at 11 when we go to bed and he would then sleep through until 8. This past week he’s been waking up at 4am screaming for a bottle and then he’s awake for a good hour before going back off, I’ve just been putting it down to the 6 month regression
Mine slept through until I put him in his own room. If he has a bottle and then me before bed (7pm) then he will wake up about 12/1am and that’s it. If he just has me before bed he’ll be up 3/4times in the night. If he comes back in our room he sleeps through the night again 😭
How's he doing with solids? Mine was still waking up once a night for a small feed, but since I put him on 3 meals a day he's slept through (though it's only been since the weekend, so not a huge amount of time!)
Mines never slept through, still wakes for milk 1-2 times per night! My eldest started sleeping through around this age though but I can’t see my youngest doing that anytime soon x
Mine wakes between 4 and 7 times a night!!
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