Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby Sleep

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Naps

How is everyone doing for naps?

Little one is 9 months old and will have 2 half hour naps and one solid 1 hour - 2 hour nap a day

Then settles for night around 9pm. Wakes for a feed around 3:30 then sleeps until 6-7

Okay….wtf has happened to my baby 😂

She has been a dream from birth, so smiley, happy, barely ever cries. Slept 6 hours straight from about a week old then only woke after 4 hours so only ever one night feed.

She had her 8 week injections 10 days ago and BAM. We have a different baby 😂 she’s still generally okay and very smiley but she refuses all sleep, day and night. She is awake literally all f**king night and feeds like nothing else. She’s EBF, she fed 4 times between midnight and 5 as literally nothing else would settle her, we tried everything. We started bedtime at 7:30 as she had been awake for 3 hours and she stayed awake until 11:15pm. What is happening. WHAT IS HAPPENING?! Does this ever end?!

I’ve now slept 2 hours a night for 4 consecutive nights and I might be dead x

5 month baby

How many naps do your 5 month babies take a day and for how long?

Dropping to 1 nap

What was everyone’s signs baby was dropping from 2 naps to 1? X

Help: 4 week old feeding every hour at night

In last days my baby totally changed his night pattern - from midnight until morning he needs to be fed every 45 min or so. I can’t sleep as between changing nappy, putting him in the crib, he sleeps for like 20 min and wants to eat again. Anyone had this and did anything worked? I know newborns don’t have routines but is this cluster feeding all night? Or is he confusing night and day? We noticed that if we do contact naps he can sleep for longer like 2-3h

I think i’ve got a clinger.

I have 4 week old twins, one sleeps decently but the other one is impossible. Trying to juggle both of them on my own when my partner is at work is ridiculously difficult as it is but she won’t let you put her down… I could understand if we always had hold of her, but we don’t!

I always start the feeds with her as her sister is a bit more chilled and can get away with leaving her in the cot for an extra 30 minutes but as soon as she’s done with her feed, burping, nappy change etc and when it comes to swapping over for twin 2’s feed she just won’t have it and screams bloody murder.

She won’t settle in the cot no matter how tired she is, the only way I can get her to sleep is if she’s strapped to my chest in the sling for half an hour but even then, when it comes to transferring her (as smoothly as possible) into the moses basket, the minute she’s in it’s back to the crying and screaming.

Any tips or advice would be desperately welcome!

Bottle before sleeping😅

So I feel like such a bad mother. My daughter is almost a year and a half old and she still takes a bottle at nap and bedtime. I know they encourage straw bottles or open cups and she does drink from those during the day. We also rarely brush her teeth😅😅😅 Please tell me I'm not the only one and please give recommendations for good before sleep cups and toothbrushes!! 💜

Feeding two

My partner has gone back to work and i’m finding it so difficult to feed both of them - both bottle fed.

I have one twin who seems to be a lot needier than the other, and as soon as they wake for a feed there’s no warning signs or cues… just blood curdling screaming as soon as she wakes, as if she’s never been fed so 90% of the time she’ll be the first one to be tended to.

But on the rare occasion twin 2 wakes first for a feed and twin 1 is sound asleep, it’s like twin 1 can sense it and she’ll scream the house down until you put the other one to the side and tend to her instead which ends up with the first twin not being fully winded after their feed and therefore won’t settle. That sets of the cycle of “pick up twin 1, nappy, feed, start to burp, twin 2 starts screaming, pick up twin 2, console, feed, try to burp, twin 1 starts screaming, tend to twin 1, twin 2 starts etc etc”

I’ve tried using an M shaped feeding pillow to prop them both up in to feed but that’s a struggle since they can’t support their own heads and it’s better if they feed with a straight back, they end up sitting like prawns in that. And I can’t pick them both up at the same time, nor can I hold two babies and two bottles - i’m not an octopus.

What do I do?!

Night sleep

What are your sleeping arrangements? I have been sleeping on the sofa for 5 weeks and baby’s next to me is in the living room. But most of the time baby wants to be held (only likes front sleeping) so I’m sitting upright holding him which is so uncomfortable all night long and I can’t cope with the lack of sleep I’m getting.

Wondering if I should start cosleeping in the bedroom and kick my husband out lol
What do you guys do? Does your baby sleep in their crib?

Nap refusal

Anyone else’s baby seem to be really hard to put to sleep at the moment? Mainly nap times🫠

Fighting sleep

Has anyone got any advice or tips please? My nearly 5 month old fight naps and sleep in general so hard! I’ve tried everything… Holding him to sleep, putting him down to sleep and staying in the room, stepping out of sight. It doesn’t help he refuses to take a dummy. Once he’s asleep, he sleeps well so it’s literally just the fighting to sleep when he is clearly tired. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated because I’m starting to fear nap and bedtime because I know I’m going to have a very stressed little boy! 💔

Baby not lying on back!

Hi please suggest me something as my 11 days old is always rolling to their sides and not lying on flat back also head stays to sides almost all time even in car seat. FTM

Naps

Wee boy is 13 weeks and occasionally napped in crib ok but now he won't settle at all for naps in cribs and wakes up after 5 mins and will only sleep on me..any tips?

I feel so baddd 😭

So we didn’t start co-sleeping until like a month or two ago our son is 11 months he’ll sleep in his crib until about midnight then come in our bed bc he nurses super frequently now that he’s like constantly teething anyways I usually ALWAYSS put him in between me and his dad so he won’t fall off the bed…. so he wakes up his usual time at like 12 his dad goes and gets him from his crib and brings him to me i barely wake up and some how I put him on the other side I wake up as he’s falling off the bed i immediately pick him up and start nursing him he cried for like a second and then was fine nursed and fell asleep but I’m like freaking out bc now he has a big egg on the side of his head and I’m not even sure what he hit his head on… do I let him sleep? Take him to the er? Call his doctor? I’m like silently crying over here bc I was soooo scared to ever co sleep with him for this exact reason 😩😩

Not sleeping day or night!

Is anyone else’s 7 month old just not sleeping.
We are putting her for a nap then she is waking every ten minutes either crying and then will soothe herself and then normally fully wakes after 30 minutes.
We are experiencing the exact same at night with multiple wake ups which she’s never really done. It’s normally waking up moaning or screaming but will fall back asleep after a few minutes of doing this.
I can’t tell if it’s teeth,illness or development. Has anyone else going through the same?

Is breastfeeding keeping my baby awake?

My baby is almost 7 weeks old and I was EP and bottle feeding her until last week when I started to breastfeed her pretty much all day.

Once I started breastfeeding as opposed to bottle feeding, she wouldn’t sleep in her bassinet and didn’t have long stretches of sleep in general. I kept the bedtime bottle which allowed a good stretch, but not much more. This morning I was exhausted so I let my husband give her a bottle for her early morning feed. Instead of being fussy all morning, she’s sound asleep and has been for 2 hours. That hasn’t happened all week since breastfeeding unless she’s on me for a contact nap.

Could breastfeeding be the cause of her poor independent sleep/sleep overall throughout week 6? I feel like I’m failing.

One Nap

Please can you help me. My lo wakes me up at night for an hour and only therefore sleeps around 9 hours between 9pm and 7am. We are trying to move her to one nap but she is always ready for a nap at 10.30am ish. How do we get her to stay up till 12 to do the one nap?! Maybe she's not ready yet? Her last wake window is 5 hours which she can do.

Own room

Do you guys think going from co-sleeping to being in a cot in their own room would be too much of a big jump?

Baby doesn’t like being put down

For the past week, my 3 week old won’t be put down. He squirms and whimpers as soon as I put him anywhere. He also does this when we put him in his next to me at night. I think he might have a bit of silent reflux as I can hear him gulping down sometimes, he sounds stuffy and makes a lot of grunting/ snorting noises. I just want to be able to help him get comfortable. Our issue also is that I have a 2 year old to also look after and I’m so sleep deprived and struggling to balance the two. What is everyone else doing?

Serious question

Does your husband wake up to the baby crying? My husband works all week so I do the night wakes alone with my toddler and newborn and on the weekend I’ve asked him to get up at least one night with him so I can catch up on my sleep but he can’t wake up to the baby crying and says his brains not programmed to do that. It’s been three weeks of me not sleeping if at all at night then up all day bc my toddler and I’m just wondering if this is how it’s supposed to be bc I’m tired