Those who have babies who sleep have a totally different parenting journey

Agreed. My oldest was a horrendous sleeper (up every hour / two hours ish until he was about 2). My 7 month old has slept through since he was about 4 days old. I feel completely different this time, and not being sleep deprived has benefitted my mental and physical health so much in comparison

My son is a great sleeper and has slept through the night since 3 months old. My daughter is 11 months old and still wakes up several times a night and hates sleep and I was not prepared for how much more difficult EVERYTHING is without sleep! I am hoping and praying we continue to make progress towards sleeping through the night!

Also, a friend suggested the Taking Cara Babies sleep training class - and while I didnt actually pay for the classes I did start reading her blog and using her suggested age appropriate sleep schedules and I am seeing improvement with my youngest and her ability to sleep longer stretches! Hang in there mama!!! I hope the blog helps you like it has me!!

We sleep trained all our kids. They weren’t all natural sleepers.

My daughter woke every 40min to eat until around 14mths. But by 2.5yrs she slept through the night. Shes 3.5 now and no night wakes (unless shes sick). My son? He sleeps through the night mostly. He does wake up once for a chichi snackie but then is back to sleep until 5a and then my wife takes him but she says he goes right back in like 20min🤣. Anyway, he is way easier since he sleeps BUT he starts his day at 6:40ish and my daughter didnt start her day until 9a!

I would agree. I give the advice to “go out, go to baby groups, go to mall after and push him around in pram while he sleeps” not thinking that not all babies nap 2hrs in pram/wherever like mine does. He didn’t sleep through the night until 18m, but when he woke he had his full on the boob and nodded off, every time. There wasn’t a time he woke middle of night and stayed awake. So I’d just latch and fall asleep myself knowing he would also, I didn’t take hours rocking or bouncing. But I also kept all light low and I didn’t speak a word to him till morning, I didn’t stimulate him coz I was also half asleep lol. I just change his diaper and put him on boob in silence (if it’s night)

We've had a mix of both - mine is a good sleeper, but regressions have hit hard, and there have been entire weeks at a time when we didn't sleep at all. Doesn't help that my husband is a pushover and would give in to cosleeping or sit up with her for hours. 🙄 But I digress. During those weeks of sleepless nights, I definitely felt the difference. It's a completely different day and morning when you're sleep deprived, and I'm reminded every time she randomly decides that tonight is not a sleeping night. 😒

My firstborn was a wonderful sleeper, didn't even want comforted to sleep or anything she just preferred to be swaddled, laid down, and left alone to fall asleep. My second was the total opposite, never wanted to settle and required a solid hour or more of butt pats, back rubs, and rocking to fall asleep at all, the smallest noise would wake him up. Babies are hard no matter what but babies who don't want to sleep are absolutely more of a mental challenge 😭, I hope your little one(s) give you some much deserved rest soon!!

Definitely! My first was a great sleeper! Never cried much. Would wake in the during the night for feeds and then immediately go back to sleep.
My twins not so much… or maybe it’s just cause it was 2 of them, but I finally understood the complaints other moms had about the newborn phase the second time around.