My boy is almost 6 months old and has never slept through the night, he wakes up at least twice but mostly more than that. Last night he was up every hour! He always want a bottle to go back to sleep, even when he’s not hungry and I’ve tried everything to stop the bottles through the night, dummies, rocking, co sleeping but he still needs them for comfort even if it’s only a few sips. Thing is sometimes he will drink the full thing, so I feel I can’t stop offering completely just incase he really is hungry. I don’t know what I’m hoping from this, maybe some advice or hope that it does get better…
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My sons 3 months and basically the same, I think he’s just a hungry boy 😭

all 3 of my kids have slept threw the night since 5 weeks old, 7pm till 8:30am

Sounds completely normal to me, my 14 month old has never slept through. She stopped having milk in the night around 9/10 months I think

It’s very normal to have a couple of night wakes up to around 12 months. Some babies sleep better than others, you’re not doing anything wrong. 6 months is still early to drop night feeds if he is still waking x

15 months for us 🙃 but it did happen! Night feeds stopped for us around 9 months and we co slept to get through that stage of hourly wakes x

My baby is 13 months still isn't sleeping through but will wake up once and on occasion will sleep through I would say night feeds stopped once he showed couple of nights of sleeping through so I knew I don't need to always offer it. I think for me the feeds drop with the drop of night wakes I didn't try and control the feeds in the end. Now he wakes up once but needs patting etc I absolutely wouldn't worry at 6 months sounds completely normal within the normal range. It is frustrating when you're surrounded by good sleepers and baby that sleeps through from 8 weeks lol parenting a non sleeper is a completely different category of parenting

It is a huge misconception that the majority of babies should sleep through the night by 6-12 months. Most don't until much later so although its really hard, it is super normal and is just a phase. My LO is 15 months and the longest she has slept is 8pm to 5am and that has only been in last few weeks. But now sleep is slowly getting more consistent 😴 they go through stages and how they sleep is mainly just their temperament :)

2 months old he started sleeping through, now at 9 months hes going through a sleep regression

My baby is nearly 1 and doesn't wake for feeds anymore but he doesn't sleep soundly he often sits up and moves about and thrashes around and that wakes him up.

Like 2 years 😅

6/7 weeks old and still does now

Mine is 2 years old now and still wakes in the night every night 🫠

3 years old 😵💫

It's normal to wake in the night until age 4.
With him waking so often I'd be looking at the timings for the whole day and see if adjustments are needed.
When does he wake, nap and go to bed?
There is a big growth spurt at 6 months so could actually be needed them.

The one thing we did was we dreamfed my son no matter how long ago his feed was we offered a few ounces at midnight and he started sleeping through x
So my LG was diagnosed on 5th August with rotavirus and today we are still experiencing similar poos to what she was having when they said she had this? Does this poo look normal as she is a formula fed baby on apatamil pepti 1. Just I’ve been back and forth to docs and wanted to see if anyone else babies are having poos like this before a ring up again 🤦🏻♀️ this is her 2nd explosion of the day

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I took my 5 week old son to the GP because his poo turned green (after being yellow for some weeks) and he started to strain a lot more which was waking him up. Doctor said since he is pooing 6 times a day sometimes more (exclusively breastfed), he might be dehydrated so to give him a tea spoon of water after each feed. He is having 6+ wet nappies a day so i don’t believe he is dehydrated and was told at the hospital that breastfed babies can poo after each feed and it’s normal. Has anyone else had similar advice before because i know water could be dangerous at this age.
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I really want to give breastfeeding more of a go this second time round. However, I feel like I come across more stories of breastfed babies that don’t sleep through the night or that struggle to ever take a bottle. My formula fed baby slept through from about 3 months, and while I’m not expecting that luck again, I am nervous about no sleep with a toddler to look after too. Does anyone have any tips/ or positive stories about breastfed and sleeping through?
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At what age did you stop using bottles for milk?
I have a 15 month old and we went to get 15 month old appointment yesterday and her doctor told us that she wants us to stop giving her milk in her bottle at night?

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My friends daughter is only 4 but is really cruel. Always has to make someone feel bad or less, forcing them to give her what they have, excluding them, she is always so serious even with adults like she hates everyone and everything and only smiles if she is doing something bad. She makes her friends beg for food for instance and when my daughter runs excited to see her she looks at her with disgust and walks away (even if she later tries to find her) another small thing she tries to get my attention copying things that my daughter just done like asking me to wash her hands (I think is a competition with my little one) and she has 0 respect for other adults. For instance her mum asked me to help her as she was in a dangerous bit of the playpark and her mum was feeding the baby. She said in a very rude way: go and sit with my mum over there. I'm pulling my daughter away from her just now because I know my daughter loves her but also causes her stress as when they are together my daughter has episodes she wouldn't have afterwards. Opinions please
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is it normal to bleed after 4 months not quite sure if this is a period i was told while still breastfeeding i wouldn’t get it for a while

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