u/Zebra_Creative

I don’t know when we started to fall into routine of our 12 week old sleeping at 9, wind down from 8, but it’s been working for about a month. She generally sleeps from 9/10pm until 9am, with wakes to feed of course

The last few nights she’s started having a witching hour 6ish-8 so I’ve gone to bed a bit earlier

Tonight she fell asleep at around half 7 ( she doesn’t normally nap very late, last one around 6). She did wake up again and go back to sleep by feeding her to sleep, but woke up again.

I’m wondering if her fussiness in the evening is sign of need for earlier bedtime?

It’s also hard to tell because I’m staying with my parents in my home country where a lot of family is seeing her throughout the day and we’re having lots of fresh countryside and sea air which we normally don’t get where we live.

When and how did you decide on bed time for your LO?

FTM EBF 12 week old at 75-80th percentile weight

I realised today that before I go out somewhere I will do a quick top up feed in hopes that I’m less likely to have to bf when out and about, for convenience sakes.

I wondered if it was a bad habit to get into for any reason? She isn’t fussy or actively showing hunger cues at this time and will feed for maybe 5 mins usually. I’ve heard you can’t over feed a breastfed baby but is that why her weight is in the high percentiles?

My 3 month old has been drooling loads and constantly chewing her hand for the last few days and fussier in evenings. A number of people have said this could be early teething. I’ve seen posts about other babies starting teething this early and not getting teeth until they’re 10 months or so.

I’m wondering if I can/should give her calpol for this? I find it so hard to know how much of her fussiness is discomfort or if it’s just standard 3 month old fussiness?

I don’t mean to ask for medical advice I guess I’m just wondering how common it is to give calpol for this or if anyone has any ways of working out whether their baby needs painkiller or is just fussy?

I co sleep with my 11 week old after first wake up (was 4am for a couple of nights which was glorious but usually more like midnight to 2am).

I don’t mind co sleeping at all, but from the past week or so she has been kicking and punching in her sleep so much it feels like sleeping next to a breakdancing champion. If I move over (still in C curl but just so she’s not right up against my ribs) she moves with me meaning I’m always waking up at the very edge of the bed.

I’m waking up every half hour to hour because of how active she is, but she stays asleep throughout. If I transfer her to the next to me crib there’s limited success of her staying asleep but when she does I can hear her breakdancing and grunting so I continue to wake up anyway.

Anyone else had this problem? Is it a developmental thing they grow out of or is there anything I can do?

This is probably such a stupid question….

My 10 week old has fought day time naps since she was about 7 weeks, even the fail safes like contact naps and pram naps.

She will, however, have at least one feed a day that lasts longer than 30 mins, eyes closed the whole time, very slow suckling, definitely doesn’t feel like she’s swallowing much. About 75% of the time, she’ll pop off after 45 mins or so and be awake, and seem well rested. Only once has she had a mouthful of milk spill out on waking. Does this count as a nap??

She usually sleeps 9/10pm until 7am to 11am, waking to feed of course. She barely opens her eyes for those feeds either.

She’ll only have about 3 naps a day, anywhere between 30 mins and 3 hours depending on the day. She seems to have one heavy nap day and then one or two low nap days, and repeat.

I understand some babies are low sleep need. Could it be that a rest with her eyes closed while feeding is enough to replace a nap for her??

Is it at all damaging that her naps differ so much day to day or is that just what works for her?

We got gifted so many of those half teddies half blankets. When did your LO start sleeping with or getting comfort from one?

I’m in two minds of introducing one as her main comfort item, unless I’m able to buy back ups of them maybe, but I’ve taken the tags off most of them anyway.

When/did you introduce them? Any regrets?

9 week old has always been a fomo baby but especially last few days has been refusing day time naps.

She normally sleeps at night somewhere between 8-11pm until 7-10am with probably 3 maybe 4 wakes for feeding. Usually pretty much stays asleep during those except the later morning feed.

I used to get 3 solid naps (ranging between 30 mins to 2 hours) a day with a big struggle for the 4th. Yesterday she didn’t sleep til 4pm and it was only for 40 mins! I had been trying on and off to get her to nap from about 10.30am after a wake time of 9am.

Our usual go to naps are in the pram, contact, side lying while feeding, carrier, white noise, dim room, shushing, yoga ball . None of these have been working especially well.

She has been clusterfeeding a bit and having feeds up to 40 mins, although these long feeds her eyes are closed and she seems pretty much asleep.

My SIL says I should be making sure she is very awake for feeds and her sleepy feeds are what’s giving me “crap naps” whereas I thought baby would be more likely to nap after a sleepy feed??

Thoughts, advice, similar experiences? Is this just a normal variation for her age?