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My baby is 7.5 months (6.5 adjusted) and waking every 30-60 mins. She also needs a lot of support to sleep.

My question is about wake windows.
She usually does:
Wake 7.30-8am
2.5hr
Nap 1
3hr
Nap 2
3hr

Nap total 2.5 hrs

On a day like today nap 2 ended at 3:45 so she was ready to sleep at 7pm, however this was only 8.5 hours awake so I offered a ten minute bridge nap and she did an extra 2 hours awake.

Is this the right thing to do? She is clearly very tired after the bridge nap and results in crying at bed time. I feel like she then struggles to stay asleep and is up so much throughout the night. I’ve tried a 4 hour wake window and she can’t handle it.

Is she over tired or under tired? How do I time her naps so that bedtime doesn’t get pushed really late or be really early?

My 7 month old (6 adjusted) wakes every 50 minutes through the night and can only get back to sleep by nursing. I’m exhausted!
I don’t want to sleep train but I need to get longer stretches, she cries and cries if my husband tries to settle her. Does anyone have any advice? I have tried co sleeping but she’s very restless, constantly latching and unlatching and usually can’t fall asleep unless I’m cradling her.

Also, between 1-3am she is very difficult to put into her bassinet and often has false starts. Why would this be? By 4am the false starts stop.

I’ve just found out my 7 month old is allergic to peanuts. She got a few mild hives and we took her for a scratch test which confirmed it. I had a peanut allergy as a child but have outgrown it.

Firstly I am feeling so guilty that I didn’t introduce peanuts at 5-6 months. The dr said we may have prevented it if we’d introduced earlier. We live in Asia where peanut allergies are uncommon and peanuts are used in so many things. I think it will have a big impact on her life here.

The Dr said we can start OIT at 1year when she’s more comfortable with solid food. I’m worried about waiting so long with no peanut exposure and potentially making the allergy worse. Is this a valid concern? Did anyone else wait between exposure and starting OIT?

I’ve just found out my 7 month old is allergic to peanuts. She got a few mild hives and we took her for a scratch test which confirmed it. I had a peanut allergy as a child but have outgrown it.

Firstly I am feeling so guilty that I didn’t introduce peanuts at 5-6 months. The dr said we may have prevented it if we’d introduced earlier. We live in Asia where peanut allergies are uncommon and peanuts are used in so many things. I think it will have a big impact on her life here.

The Dr said we can start OIT at 1year when she’s more comfortable with solid food. I’m worried about waiting so long with no peanut exposure and potentially making the allergy worse. Is this a valid concern? Did anyone else wait between exposure and starting OIT?

My six month old is awake from 2am, she clearly wants to sleep and is rubbing her eyes, dozing for 20 minutes then is wide awake again. When she’s awake she is smiley but I wouldn’t say she’s ready to play. She really wants to be asleep.

I’m trying to work out if she’s under tired or if something else is going on.

Hello, I’m struggling with frequent wake ups overnight with my baby and it’s just getting worse and worse. She’s 7 months (6 adjusted) and is waking up between 30-50 minutes after transferring her all through the night. Sometimes it can be after 15 minutes. She also has a false start within five minutes of putting her in the bassinet at the start of the night and we don’t get a long stretch even at the start. In April and May she was doing 4-5 hour stretches and waking to feed 2-3 times which was very manageable!

She is exclusively breastfed and I feed to sleep at each wake. I tried rocking and she just screams and won’t settle so it’s a lot easier to feed but I’m worried this is making the wakes worse.

The last few days her schedule has been a bit like this:

Wake up: 7:30-8am
Nap 1: around 10–10:30 for 60-90 minutes
Nap 2: around 2pm for 60-75 minutes
Nap 3: around 6:45 and I wake her after 15 minutes
Bed: 8:45-9pm

All naps are contact naps and she’s been sleeping longer stretches on me so it pushes the third nap back. It has been a struggle to get her to sleep for the third nap but when I wake her she is clearly tired and spends the next few hours rubbing eyes and fussing but I can’t get her to bed any earlier.
If she wakes from a nap early and is rubbing her eyes it’s a sign she is still tired so I tend to rock her back to sleep which she will accept for day naps.

I feel like she’s getting enough awake time and when she wakes in the night she is upset and falls asleep on me very fast.

I feel like I must be doing something wrong. Could she be overtired? I’m exhausted from the wakes and haven’t slept more than 1 hr in a row in weeks but she won’t let my husband rock her at night. Sorry for the long post, just feeling quite worried about it all.

I am starting to co sleep with my baby (5.5 months) and trying to think ahead to when she is more mobile.

We do not have space for a floor bed so I am considering bed rails, however I have read these are a risk for suffocation. Are there any other options I can consider?

Also, one hesitation I have with co sleeping is that my baby will always need to sleep next to me in bed for the next few years. Currently I can’t even slip away as she wakes immediately. If I start co sleeping will it be very hard to transition her to a cot in her own room?

Hello, I’m feeling worried about my baby’s sleep as it’s so bad! She’s 6 months (5 adjusted) and until about 3.5 months was giving us 4-5 hour stretches in the bassinet. Since then it’s just got worse and worse.

All day naps are contact naps and I nurse to sleep. Once I get her to sleep in the day she sleeps quite well on me and total day sleep is 3-4 hours.

Some ‘good’ nights she wakes every 1-2 hours, but most nights she wakes every 30-40 mins or after 5 minutes of putting her in the bassinet. She has reflux so after feeding I hold her up for 20 mins before transferring.

Last night she wouldn’t even settle while contact sleeping, she’d sleep half an hour then wake crying, or wake as soon as I stood up. I tried co sleeping and she still struggled to sleep and was up every hour.

She didn’t get much sleep (8 hours broken) then woke early and is clearly still tired (yawning and rubbing eyes). It took three hours of awake time to get her to nap in the morning despite lots of eye rubbing etc.

I can tell she’s tired and I try and nurse/rock her to sleep when I see sleepy cues and I see her eyes droop and then suddenly she’s wide awake again! She acts really smiley and happy when awake and then will start crying really suddenly and that’s when she will finally sleep. I’m convinced she’s overtired and wired.

I feel like I am doing something wrong and I’m worried what the lack of sleep will do for her development.

Hello, my baby is five months and is refusing to sleep in the bassinet. She wakes so frequently I am getting 3-4?hours of broken sleep a night and I am exhausted!

I am going to start co sleeping but wanted to check a few things

1. Is it ok to put baby in the middle of the bed between mum and dad? Or should they go on the side away from dad?

2. What do you do when travelling e.g no side rails on bed, small beds, soft mattress?

3. The safe sleep 7 says a baby must be healthy and not premature. Do they mean don’t co sleep under 40 weeks but it’s ok once they’ve reached 40 weeks? My baby is healthy but was born premature (36 weeks).

Hello, my baby is 6 months (5 adjusted) and we have been struggling with multiple night wakes. On the advice of this group I realised that on some days she is only getting 8-9 hours awake so I’ve been trying to make sure she has more awake time in the day.

We wake her at 7.30am every day (usually she naturally wakes at this time) but I’ve been struggling with timing naps around bed time. For example yesterday was:

2.5/2.3/2/2.5
The last nap ended at 5:30 so I gave her a 15 minute nap at 7:45 and bedtime was 9.30.

My questions are

1. Is offering a bridge nap the best way to handle this?

Hello, my baby is 6 months (5 adjusted) and we have been struggling with multiple night wakes. I realised that on some days she is only getting 8-9 hours awake so I’ve been trying to make sure she has more awake time in the day.

We wake her at 7.30am every day (usually she naturally wakes at this time) but I’ve been struggling with timing naps around bed time. For example yesterday was:

2.5/2.3/2/2.5
The last nap ended at 5:30 so I gave her a 15 minute nap at 7:45 and bedtime was 9.30.

My questions are

1. Is offering a bridge nap the best way to handle this?

I’d like to buy my friends a wedding gift for an experience that is in the Bristol area - e.g restaurant voucher, art class, anything a bit unusual. They love the outdoors and are very down to earth. Any recommendations?

I’ve been researching Possums and interested in implementing it to try and improve my baby’s sleep (23 weeks, 19 adjusted).

I’m not sure how to handle day naps though, as baby contact naps for all day naps and has a strong feed to sleep association.

Our nights in the last few weeks have become terrible. She wakes every 30-60 mins and usually needs boob to settle.

I’m wondering if I need to reduce her day time sleep? She usually gets 3-4 hours. But how do I do this if she is contact napping? If I try and put her in the bassinet she will wake instantly.

Other than that my understanding is I should have a fixed wake time and bedtime then naps should be based on baby cues. Is this correct?

My baby is 19 weeks adjusted and until three weeks ago was doing 4-5 hour stretches. I’ve always nursed to sleep as it provides so much comfort.

In the last few weeks she has started waking up every sleep cycle and needing to nurse to sleep again, so every 30-40 minutes. I try rocking and shushing first but the crying escalates fast.

I’m ok with continuing to nurse to sleep but I can’t be doing it every 30-40 minutes as I’m exhausted and my husband can’t settle her as she gets hysterical until given the boob.

All day naps are contact naps side lying in bed or the occasional carrier nap which is always max 30 minutes.

I presume the change is due to the four month sleep regression, but will night wakings ever reduce if I continue to nurse to sleep? Will she still learn to connect sleep cycles?

Did anyone go through this? How long did it take for your little one to start sleeping longer stretches?

My baby is 20 weeks (16 adjusted) and bedtimes are becoming more and more chaotic.

She usually wakes from her last nap around 4:30-5pm and she tends to fall asleep for bed at about 8-8:30pm.

The in between bit is so difficult and often ends in her crying in our arms as we rock her and then falling asleep exhausted.

Once she wakes from her last nap it’s too long to keep her up until 8pm, so she often has a cat nap on a walk around 6pm but then wakes up from this very grumpy and grizzly. I breastfeed her but she suffers from reflux so spits up a lot and it can be hard to tell when she’s full as she doesn’t give clear cues so she gets a bit uncomfortable which doesn’t help.

I don’t know how to make things calmer for her. How do I manage the in between but? I really want to get a better bedtime routine but she’s always too tired and fussy to even look at a book but isn’t ready to sleep properly until 8pm! Any advice?

My baby is 18 weeks, 14 adjusted and until this week would go to sleep around 7/8pm then wake at 1am, 4am and 6.30 for feeds (breastfeed). She would then doze until around 8.30am. Normally she would feed then I’d hold her upright on my chest as she has reflux before transferring to the bassinet.

This week I have noticed her feeds getting longer, she pops on and off a bit more and she takes longer to settle upright on my chest. Sometimes she drinks more and will settle, other times she cries and I either feed more or rock her based on what cues she is giving.

Last night she also fed at 9pm and I couldn’t get her to settle after the 1am feed so she also fed at 2am.

Does this sound like the 4 month sleep regression? Can the regression make it harder for baby to settle?

Her wake window is 90 mins in the day and she usually does two 90 min naps and a 30 min nap late afternoon. All contact naps

My baby is 18 weeks, 14 adjusted and until this week would go to sleep around 7/8pm then wake at 1am, 4am and 6.30 for feeds (breastfeed). She would then doze until around 8.30am. Normally she would feed then I’d hold her upright on my chest as she has reflux before transferring to the bassinet.

This week I have noticed her feeds getting longer, she pops on and off a bit more and she takes longer to settle upright on my chest. Sometimes she drinks more and will settle, other times she cries and I either feed more or rock her based on what cues she is giving.

Last night she also fed at 9pm and I couldn’t get her to settle after the 1am feed so she also fed at 2am.

Does this sound like the 4 month sleep regression? Can the regression make it harder for baby to settle?

Her wake window is 90 mins in the day and she usually does two 90 min naps and a 30 min nap late afternoon/early evening. All contact naps.