Sleeping through the night?

If your LO is sleeping through the night.. did you do anything to encourage it? Mine still wakes up 3x to feed.

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I think a lot of it is luck and depends on your baby, but mine sleeps through and what works really well for us is a 5min coconut oil massage before bed (with about half this time spent on making circles on the soles of their feet - it calms their nervous system right down!)

I also offer 2 breastfeeds in the final hour before bed to help her get all the fuel to sleep through 🙏

You've got this 💪🏼

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It just happened one night but she goes to bed the same time every night which is 7pm. I dont let her nap pass 5pm. The bedtime routine is the same as well . Sometimes she wakes up between 4 and 6pm (if its before 6pm she goes back to bed).

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I really think it's personality. My 2 year old woke up every hour or 2 until he was around 1, then it improved. Now he sleeps through. My 15 week old woke up all the time for the first week and now sleeps through. I stay up until 11.30pm or midnight... wake her up for a last nappy change/ feed and then she sleeps the rest of the night.
Its so hard if you have a baby that doesn't sleep, but it does get better I promise! X

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How old is your little one? 3 / 4 months? If so, this is really normal. I’m trained in infant sleep and it’s very much down to temperament, sleep needs and environmental factors that can determine when a baby sleeps through the night. But to reassure you that it’s normal, only 20% of 6-12 month olds sleep fully through the night.

It’s brutal though being woken so many times xx

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