u/SplitTunnel

Our 6-month-old has basically been stuck in a sleep regression since 4 months. They’ve never been a great sleeper, even from birth, but this feels like a whole new level of bad sleeping. When they were a newborn up until about 3 months old we could barely put them down and they had to sleep in our arms, so my husband and I would take shifts during the nights just holding them. Then at 3 months we had a slight shift change where we could put them down and they would wake up about 3 times a night to feed but when back to bed immediately so we had so much relief. At 4 months all hell broke loose.

Baby is exclusively formula-fed. Bedtime is usually around 7 pm. We have tried going to bed both earlier and later to test things out and it’s always the same outcome as right now or even worse. We’ve tried creating a nighttime routine to have some consistency at bedtime. They wake up anywhere from around 11pm-12am screaming and then stay awake until 3–4 am. We feed and change diaper and attempt to put back to bed. We try rocking them, and they’ll eventually fall asleep in our arms—but the second we try to transfer them to the crib, they wake up screaming for us. Eventually after hours of being awake baby goes to sleep, but from this point is up every 30 ish mins until 530-630 am when they decide to be awake for the day.

Baby uses a pacifier. We tried at one point taking it away because when they were a newborn they used to be able to self soothe with their thumb, but that made things worse and now they cannot use their thumb to soothe (unless in a very very deep sleep) Now they pull at the pacifier, seem frustrated by it, and kind of gnaw on it—we’re guessing teething might be part of the issue.

We also tried sleep training (a gentle form of Ferber), but our baby is very sensitive and goes straight to full-on, vaccine-level screaming. We even tried co-sleeping a couple times, but that didn’t help—they just want to stay awake and interact with us.

Naps are… okay. Usually around 30 minutes, sometimes up to an hour on a good day—but they still need to be fully rocked to sleep.

At this point, my husband and I are completely exhausted and honestly don’t know what to do. Would really appreciate any advice or hearing from anyone who’s gone through something similar.

Our 6-month-old has basically been stuck in a sleep regression since 4 months. They’ve never been a great sleeper, even from birth, but this feels like a whole new level of bad sleeping. When they were a newborn up until about 3 months old we could barely put them down and they had to sleep in our arms, so my husband and I would take shifts during the nights just holding them. Then at 3 months we had a slight shift change where we could put them down and they would wake up about 3 times a night to feed but when back to bed immediately so we had so much relief. At 4 months all hell broke loose.

Baby is exclusively formula-fed. Bedtime is usually around 7 pm. We have tried going to bed both earlier and later to test things out and it’s always the same outcome as right now or even worse. We’ve tried creating a nighttime routine to have some consistency at bedtime. They wake up anywhere from around 11pm-12am screaming and then stay awake until 3–4 am. We feed and change diaper and attempt to put back to bed. We try rocking them, and they’ll eventually fall asleep in our arms—but the second we try to transfer them to the crib, they wake up screaming for us. Eventually after hours of being awake baby goes to sleep, but from this point is up every 30 ish mins until 530-630 am when they decide to be awake for the day.

Baby uses a pacifier. We tried at one point taking it away because when they were a newborn they used to be able to self soothe with their thumb, but that made things worse and now they cannot use their thumb to soothe (unless in a very very deep sleep) Now they pull at the pacifier, seem frustrated by it, and kind of gnaw on it—we’re guessing teething might be part of the issue.

We also tried sleep training (a gentle form of Ferber), but our baby is very sensitive and goes straight to full-on, vaccine-level screaming. We even tried co-sleeping a couple times, but that didn’t help—they just want to stay awake and interact with us.

Naps are… okay. Usually around 30 minutes, sometimes up to an hour on a good day—but they still need to be fully rocked to sleep.

At this point, my husband and I are completely exhausted and honestly don’t know what to do. Would really appreciate any advice or hearing from anyone who’s gone through something similar.

Hi all! I purchased a house that has an above ground pool. I moved in mid summer and never got the chance to fully understand how things should work chemical wise. I just opened my pool this year and am so confused why my chlorine drops so quickly. I took a sample of my water to the pool store two days ago and found that I had very soft water in the pool. I was given 12KG of calcium carbonate to premix and add to the pool which fixed the hardness. My levels are currently TH: 300, pH: 7.6, TA: 120, TC: 0.5, FC: 0, CYA: 30. My chlorine was non existent yesterday so I was told I needed to add 950 grams of calhypo to the pool which I added last night at 8:30PM. I checked the levels at 8:30AM today and the levels were still at 9. I checked again at 3:30PM and it read 0. From what I understand it can be burned off by UV but we had a very overcast day today. I am so confused how it dropped this quickly and if this is to be expected?