u/Illustrious_Sleep767

At the end of the month, the US is going through fall back time change so our 6/6:30am wake up will become 5am. Early morning wakes and schedule changes in general are a big postpartum anxiety I have and it helps me to kind of hash out a plan and have solutions for worst case scenarios. I’ve searched the subreddit for peoples past experiences and I had some further questions from those who have done this before.

-Some people say they do absolutely nothing beforehand and then ignore anything happened the day of, so their nap times and bedtimes are the time on the clock. So if my son wakes up at 5, his first nap won’t be till 10 like usual? Some people said keeping lights and stimulation low until regular wake up time, so do I let him play or just keep him in his crib? How long did it take to readjust to regular schedule?

- some people said they adjusted the schedule a few days ahead of time 15 minute increments so their internal clocks adjust. I think I might go this route. However his wakeup time doesn’t change much if he goes down later. So I’m curious what others success rate is with this.

Thank you

My baby has always been early for nap transitions. We transitioned to 2 naps around 4 months and he’s done great with it.

His wake windows have been stretching more and more lately, I’m not sure when it’s enough to where it’s better to just do one nap?

Currently our schedule is:
6/6:30 - wake up
9:45 - 1st nap ~1.5 hours
3 - 2nd nap ~ 1 hour
7:45 bed

So his wake windows are like ~3.75/3.75/3.75

Would also love for him to wake up a little later as he’s been waking up at 6 on the dot lately but I get that’s biologically normal so I may be SOL.

My 7.5 month old son uses the glass dr brown bottles. We’ve been using a size 2 nipple but it seems like he gets bored drinking around the 4oz mark. I tried sizing up to 3 and it worked for a little bit but then he started choking a bit and would push bottles away so I think it was too fast. We went back to 2 and it worked for a day or 2 and now he is back to being bored. Is there another nipple brand that would work that is a more reasonable between size flow or do you guys have any suggestions for being between nipple sizes?

My 7 month old seems to be starting to self wean off night feeds. For the past two weeks he’s been sleeping 8pm-4/5ish, waking up for a bottle and then going back to sleep till 6:30/7. Our dwt is 7. It’s been great and I’m grateful for this after months of sleep deprivation. We Ferbered him around 4 months and it’s been gradually getting better ever since.

However some nights he doesn’t wake up then and for some reason I’m so scared of him waking up at 5:30/6 for the feed and then not going back to sleep. I’m not sure why, we’ve had to get up early with him before, I guess I just don’t want it to become a habit but I’ve been going in and dream feeding him at 4:30/5. He goes back to sleep after feeding for another 2ish hours. Occasionally it will backfire and make him have to poop at 6am.

Just curious what other people’s experiences have been like with the baby self weaning at night. Were there days where baby just got up early for a while in the beginning? Should I not rush to feed him if this is the case and use Ferber check ins? Or feed him and treat like a night wake?

Thanks

Edit: adding context. Baby is 2nd percentile. He is healthy and ped isn’t concerned. He does kind of suck at bottle feeding (pun not intended lol), he’s a very distracted feeder and has never liked to drink more than 5oz in a feed. I also dream feeding him for extra calories and cause he’ll usually be more calm

Is it normal for my 6.5 month old to just straight up skip his second nap and have extremely long wake windows? He’s not upset or anything he’s just so hyper and won’t go down for a nap. We have him on two naps, his first is around 10 and he’ll nap for 1.5-2 hours. He used to do a second around 3ish for about an hour but is now skipping that and just staying awake until bedtime at 7:30/8. He’s been sleeping better at night and is sleep trained so it’s not that bad but also just seems way too early for one nap? Should I just keep trying the second nap?

I have my 6.5 month old on 2 naps now. Usually the first one is ~1.5-2 hours and the second ~1 hour. We do a clock based schedule and it worked well until recently.

Typical schedule:
DWT - 7am
1st nap - 10/1030
2nd nap - 3/3:30
Bedtime - 8ish
3/3.5/4 ish schedule, sometimes longer

Lately he’s been completely skipping his second nap. He just rolls over into tummy time and chills, pivots around and babbles to himself. He makes it all the way to bedtime without getting too upset. I even leave him in his crib for a while and he won’t go down. He usually falls asleep relatively quickly on his own and was sleep trained. It’s just hard cause man I need a break. I’ve tried extending wake windows, getting him up earlier, putting him to bed earlier, capping his first nap, lots of stimulating activities during his wake windows, idk why he is just completely skipping his naps and being awake like 7-8 hours. Has anyone else gone through this? He doesn’t seem upset. Just extremely awake. He’s also been waking up at like 6:20 lately so he must be exhausted? I’ve been keeping the 10am nap time steady cause I was hoping he’ll wake up at 7 again but he won’t lol.

He did have two teeth come in recently so I assumed it was that, but they broke through already. Is this the 6 month sleep regression?

My son is 6.5 months and 2nd percentile. He is happy and healthy and following his curve but small for his age. He sucks at drinking breast milk or formula, bottle or breast he is fussy. Peds have ruled out reflux, tongue ties, other issues. Took him to a special feeding OT and no mechanical/medical issues. He’s just weird. I guess my MIL was like that too as a baby.

Now that we can introduce solids I’m hoping we can use this time to help him gain a bit of weight. Looking for meal ideas that are high calorie, somewhat easy on the stomach, and that babies will love. He seems to enjoy savory tastes over sweet, he’d rather eat broccoli and peas over fruit.

Thank you

He was sleeping really well at night, only getting up twice to eat (we do 5-3-3 for feeds). However the last few nights he’s been getting up before the 5 hours. Last night he got up 3 times, first time at 11pm after going to bed at 7:30 and woke for the day at 5:30. I thought I could snooze button feed but I was wrong.

Bedtime ~7:30/8pm
Typical/DWT ~6:30/7

Naps ~3/3/4 or similar variation. I know 2 naps is early for this age but he will easily do a 2 hour nap for one of them. And 1 hour for the other. He’s very awake for a long time. Usually cap naps at 3 hours total. So he’s usually getting 10 hours of awake time. We’ve been doing a by the clock schedule with him for naps and it’s been working well until recently. His first nap is usually 10, 2nd nap around 3.

We did Ferber at bedtime and it worked well, he goes down awake independently. Should we try to Ferber that first feed?

Help!

I have a 5.5 month old. Pretty much EBF. Around 3 months, he started sleeping long stretches, 8-9 hours. It was bliss and I slept too. When I took him to a ped appt around 4 months, his weight had dropped and after meeting with a lactation consultant, it showed my supply had dropped. We are unsure if it was due to the sleep or because I had a sort of period around that time (4-5 days of spotting but I also had a copper iud put in a few weeks before so unsure). I had to pump a lot, supplement with formula, and he started waking up more on his own but I got my supply back.

Now at 5.5 months he is starting to sleep longer stretches again. The lactation consultants said to not go more than 4-5 hours without pumping/feeding. Is that really what everyone else who is breastfeeding is doing until they wean? Seems crazy. I’ve been dream feeding him because I swear anytime I get up to pump he wakes up halfway between or as soon as I finish. I don’t really get engorged just slightly full, never painful and only got a clogged duct once that was quickly remedied with sunflower lecithin and feeding. Is anyone sleeping through the night eventually? Or is this the dirty secret about breastfeeding no one talks about, that you can’t sleep through even if you are able to

I have a 5.5 month old. Pretty much EBF. Around 3 months, he started sleeping long stretches, 8-9 hours. It was bliss and I slept too. When I took him to a ped appt around 4 months, his weight had dropped and after meeting with a lactation consultant, it showed my supply had dropped. We are unsure if it was due to the sleep or because I had a sort of period around that time (4-5 days of spotting but I also had an iud pit in a few weeks before so unsure). I had to pump a lot, supplement with formula, and he started waking up more on his own but I got my supply back.

Now at 5.5 months he is starting to sleep longer stretches again. The lactation consultants said to not go more than 4-5 hours without pumping/feeding. Is that really what everyone else who is breastfeeding is doing until they wean? Seems crazy. I’ve been dream feeding him because I swear anytime I get up to pump he wakes up halfway between or as soon as I finish. I don’t really get engorged just slightly full, never painful and only got a clogged duct once that was quickly remedied with sunflower lecithin and feeding. Is anyone sleeping through the night eventually? Or is this the dirty secret about breastfeeding no one talks about, that you can’t sleep through even if you are able to?

5.5 month old. Not sure if there’s actually a solution here or if I’m just complaining and looking for solidarity/“it’s just a phase”, I know I can’t control my son’s bowels lol. He used to go to bed at 8ish and sleep until 7/7:30 and it was great. No significant change in naps/day sleep amount, he started doing 2 naps about a month ago on his own and it works great for him. But the past 2 weeks he’s been getting up at exactly 6:20 because he poops. Like clockwork it’s exactly 6:20. I woke up at 6:15 today and checked the monitor and he was still asleep so I thought I was in the clear but nope at 6:20 he woke up and he had pooped.

I breast feed him probably 6ish times during the day, on demand, then at night he naturally does a loose 5/3/3. Any hope for a 7am wake up again or is this my life now lol.

5 month old. 3/3/4ish schedule. Took him an hour to fall asleep tonight. It was our fault, bad timing with bedtime. Let him nap too long and too late. We finally got him to bed around 8:45, about an hour later than usual. How do you get them back on schedule the next day without them being too grumpy? Wake up early? Cap naps? Accept the later schedule for a little bit til the adjusts himself? I just don’t want to keep pushing bedtime later and later

5 month old is starting to wake up earlier and earlier. He used to sleep 7:30/8pm-7/730am but now we are getting 6:30 and earlier. He dropped to 2 long naps recently, our schedule is like 3/3/3. Sometimes a wake window is closer to 3.5. I know they are supposed to get 10 hours awake but he just turns into a gremlin if we get close to it but we also just can’t fit in another nap. He already naps 3-3.5 hours, usually 10-11:30/12ish then 3-4/4:30ish. Bedtime 7:30/8pm. Any suggestions to keep him awake if that’s the solution?

Also if your baby wakes up before DWT do you keep them in the crib for a bit? Sometimes I keep him in there from 6:30-7 if he’s not crying. Would the wake window start at 6:30 or 7 in that case?

Baby is turning 5 months next week. We did Ferber a few weeks ago and it went well. He’s been on 3 naps for about a month but his wake windows are just getting longer and I’m not really sure what to do here. He is not able to handle a 4 hour wake window so I’m not sure about cutting to 2 naps but he does this awkward short nap/short last wake window before bed. Our schedule is usually:

7am ish wake up
3/3/3/1.5
Bedtime around 7:30/8
Total naps I keep around 2.5-3.5 hours

I’m not really sure how to drop the nap? I really don’t want to do a 6:30 bedtime or anything earlier than 7. I’d also like to keep 7am wake up. Also the last couple nights he has been getting up a bit more often/earlier so i feel like something has to change.

Baby is just about 19 weeks old. He is a decent sleeper/napper, we usually get 5-6 hour stretches out of him at night and he is able to nap for 1-2 hours if I let him. We started Ferber with him about two weeks ago and he did great, he mostly just grumbles for a minute or two then rolls over and falls asleep. He wakes up twice a night to eat which I don’t mind right now and our pediatrician said to feed him still. I am having trouble figuring out naps/bedtime. He has very long wake windows for his age, usually his schedule is something like 2.5/2.5/2.5/2.5. Sometimes longer. How do I fit 3 naps in the day though and still get him in bed before 8pm? He wakes up around 7:30 usually. Am I right in cutting naps short so he gets 2.5-3 hours of day sleep? He is usually pretty grumpy for his last wake windows. I feel he is too young for 2 naps but wake windows are getting too long for 3. Help

Today we decided to start Ferbering our 18 week old. We decided to intervene after an hour. I know you need to fully commit but we were just experimenting today. He’s usually a pretty good sleeper and only wakes twice at night, the struggle is more when putting him down for a night.

He eventually fell asleep after about a half hour of check-ins but would wake up again after ten minutes and cry. He usually doesn’t have any false starts at night. This continued for about an hour so my husband went in and picked him up and he fell right asleep.

Has anyone had this experience with the false starts? He should have been perfectly tired. We do 2ish/2ish/2ish/2.5ish, daytime sleep is around 3.5 hours, today was a bit over 4. last nap ended around 5:45 and we put him down around 8

My husband and I were discussing this with our 4 month old who loves to roll onto his stomach to sleep but hates being placed on his back. I understand before a baby can roll to their belly it’s important to put them to sleep on their back. But after they can roll to their belly, they’re allowed to stay on their belly to sleep but still be placed on their back to start out. Why can’t you just put them on their belly awake if they are able to move their head/face at this point? Just curious if actual SIDS risks at this stage of development.