Anyone else fed up of evening invites

Our 1 year old daughter wakes at 6 most days and has a 1-1.5 hour nap until 12.30. She has dinner around 4.30-5 and is ready for bed at 6-6.30 most days. Maybe 7 at a push. Despite this and having a very small family circle we're constantly invited for dinner at 6pm. I am always having to explain the situation and decline or ask for an earlier dinner. Family don't seem to get it. Anyone else feel the frustration.

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Unwanted Cosleeping

Tell me if I’m justified in being mad about this.

I have always said I will never cosleep. My only reason is because I don’t like being touched while I sleep. I just don’t sleep well at all and wake up all night.

We have a 1 year old and a 2 year old that share a bedroom. I put my 1 year old down first and then my husband puts our 2 year old down. Well he started putting her down in our bed with him and he falls asleep and doesn’t transfer her. I don’t want to then transfer her in fear that she wakes up and then I have to stay up with her until she goes back to sleep.

She was also the best sleeper ever. I would put her down in her crib and say goodnight and she would go to sleep. My husband ruined it and would stand there and talk to her and rub her back so she no longer puts herself to sleep.

She also only sleeps on my side of the bed and she will pee. So now 3 times in the past month I have woken up in a puddle of pee.

Im furious. She shouldn’t be in our bed and he makes it very clear that he doesn’t care and if im unhappy about it then i should put her to bed. I know some will say thats the obvious answer but I literally do everything else when it comes to my kids. So I want him to help with bedtime. It’s not too much to ask.

Would you be upset?

Bedtime

Hi all,
My 6 month old goes down between 7/7:30pm and then wakes at around 5am for a feed and has a further 30/40 minute sleep before being up for the day but I’m just wondering what time is bedtime for your little ones? 7pm works well for us but a lot of people have said it’s too early etc for her age so wondering if I should push this to 8pm or even 9pm 🤔

Thank you 🩷

Sleep regression? Naps? help!

Anyone else’s nearly 14 month old just a bag of beans 24/7
This child just never sleeps 😂
So before we always used to get her down for bed about 7:30/8 but now she will not go sleep untill 10/10:30 no matter what we do but then she wakes up super early now as well usually between 6/7
We took her down to one nap a couple weeks ago as she was never sleepy for bedtime which seemed to worked for like a week but now it’s even worse
She usually has a 1 1/2 hour nap in the middle of the day, Just worrying she’s not getting enough sleep 😴
She has been walking for about a month and half now so not sure if it’s just regression from new skill as well😅

Sleepy

My baby sleeping at night from 10:30 pm to 7 am l am worried about this before he wakes every 2 hours now he is sleeping whole night tomorrow he will be 8 weeks is it something to worried or not l am waking him like every 4 or 6 hours whenever l open my eyes is it okay that l wake him or not is it okay that he sleeps like this

Pumping

Does anyone else hate breastfeeding and prefer pumping?

I find it so uncomfortable and stressful and find that pumping is a lot of effort but easier for me to manage. I have enough milk and don’t need to top up but just can’t get into feeding from the breast.

My baby was kept in hospital longer because he lost 12.5% of his birth weight and this was because I was giving colostrum and breast feeding in the first 5 days not realising that he wasn’t getting enough. This is also part of why I don’t feel comfortable breastfeeding - with pumping I can see exactly how much he is having and keep track.

Just feel like I’m alone feeling like this and although it’s so great that he is having breast milk it’s feels like I should be moving towards breast feeding but just don’t want to and feel guilty for that.

sleep or lack of 😴

just looking to see if this is normal and i haven’t got a poor sleeper.

My 7 week old goes down on a evening anywhere between 8-9pm, first wake around 1-1:30am then 3am then 5am and after that will only go back down if it’s a contact nap.

I dunno if it’s a lucky streak but other new mums i’ve spoke to their LOs the same age are sleeping throughout the night like 8-6am no wake ups. All breastfed although they are pumping and giving in bottles as well.

Is there anything i should be adding into a routine to help with sleep, we do bath and wind down in a darken room with a small red light and white noise i’m EBF and i feel like warming bottles would be harder work but would that help with sleep? or is this just normal for a new baby still 😴

all babies are different but it’s hard not to compare when your so sleep deprived