My little girl used to sleep really well, she’d go down around 7pm and wake once for a feed normally around 4am then sleep till 7am. I have no idea what is going on at the moment but she is awful and I’m feeling so sleep deprived it’s starting to get me down.
She won’t settle now when she goes down, she’s on and off crying and whinging constantly and has been needing a feed around 12am and even then doesn’t sleep very well after, I just can’t work out what’s going on 🤯🤯 Is anyone else’s little one doing this? 🤦♀️ I have no help during the day, she has been napping for 15 mins maximum in the day time and I also have a 3 year old to occupy so I’m just dying for some decent sleep.
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How many naps a day does little one have? What's the bedtime routine?

it sounds like a sleep regression hunny, they typically last between 2-6 weeks. Keep her routine the same and strict, dark room etc. Unless she’s teething maybe? try giving her some teething powder or oil etc after each feed she wakes up for to help her fussiness xx

We're right there with you. It's 3am and I'm listening to her blow raspberries. So frustrating!! Thought we had cracked it last night but clearly not. All I can say is I hope it ends soon

You know , im at loss with my liitle girl , she has never been the best sleeper but it was doable and decent . Now , she will be up every half an hour till midnight and needs rocking and walking to fall asleep , if i dare to put her down she will scream the house down and wake up her sister .She won’t even let me to put her on my chest , she will straight aways start turning head right to left and will push on her arms constantly and wake up fully ,only way she will last for her every half hour sleep is if i hold her in my arms and of course i need to sit up so no chance to lay down ,needless to say how frustrating it is and im beyond exhausted . After 12 am i feed her and ill pass her to my husband so i can get to sleep 4-5 hours . With him she will accept to sleep on his chest but again she will toss and turn and wake up a lot . Its so crazy that im wondering is this a regression or does she need medical help ?

We're still trialing and erroring it but we actually started sleep training 3 nights ago. The first 2 nights it took her 20-25 minutes to fall asleep and overnight she was the same. But the third night it took her 6 minutes to fall asleep at like 7:45pm and she stayed asleep until 4:30am, had a bottle and slept through till 8:20am. It could have just been a fluke honestly but if its the same tonight I can update!
Maybe I’m being dumb but I don’t understand the concept of co sleeping for those of you who do it when baby doesn’t stay down in their cot. Am I missing the point or is there no difference in the two? I put my baby down in the bed the same way I put her in her cot. Am I doing it wrong? She wakes up and cries and doesn’t want to stay down. She wants to be held. I’ve tried to hold her, lie down and the roll over so she still thinks I’m holding her, but there’s too much movement and she wakes up regardless of co sleeping. Do other mums hold their babies or cuddle them when co sleeping? From the lullaby trust I can see that the baby is not being held in any way, so I can’t understand how I’m supposed to sleep if my baby doesn’t want to be put down even when co sleeping..
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As most of us are currently going through it with sleep, i thought I’d share the things I’m telling myself at 4 in the morning when she is frantically thrashing around trying to connect her sleep cycles.
“Despite what people call it, this is not a regression. She is not going backwards, she is learning something new.”
“She is a baby doing baby things - sometimes they don’t make sense”
“Her brain is going through a massive change. Regardless of how tired I am, she is building something that will stay with her for life.”
“I can only help give her the foundations to get through this, this is something she will learn for herself, in her own time.“
“I am lucky that get to be here to watch her learn this new skill.”
“I will sleep again.” (Probably the most important one)
I know I’m finding this period tough, because before now we had a baby who only woke once during the night. These are nice reminders I repeat to myself when I’m tired (and awake at 3:45). I hope they might be useful to someone else in the same position.

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I’ve got a 4 week year old and since birth, they don’t like sleeping in their own next to me crib or even on my bed and if so, it can sometimes last a few minutes when I put them down 😭
Baby only sleeps if on me or their dad. Any tips to get baby to sleep on crib/ bed without waking up after 5 minutes 😭

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need some light at the end of the tunnel! when did your little ones start sleeping longer stretches or through the night? currently up every 2 hours 😩😩
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Hey everyone! Has anyone’s babies started to struggle to sleep?? My girl has turned 3 months old today and usually she will sleep from 8:30pm until 4:00/5:00am and now we are going from 8:30pm until 12:00/1:00am and then up every half an hour until 5:00/6:00am and it’s a struggle!! Any advice at all??? 💞
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My little girl used to sleep really well, she’d go down around 7pm and wake once for a feed normally around 4am then sleep till 7am. I have no idea what is going on at the moment but she is awful and I’m feeling so sleep deprived it’s starting to get me down.
She won’t settle now when she goes down, she’s on and off crying and whinging constantly and has been needing a feed around 12am and even then doesn’t sleep very well after, I just can’t work out what’s going on 🤯🤯 Is anyone else’s little one doing this? 🤦♀️ I have no help during the day, she has been napping for 15 mins maximum in the day time and I also have a 3 year old to occupy so I’m just dying for some decent sleep.

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