u/blondemeansbusiness

Hello! My LO is 6 months in 10 days’ time and my husband and I have decided it’s time to evict him- he is basically too big for his bassinet in our room now that he can roll, I think some of his crying might be related to a lack of space for moving around(?!). Also, my husband snores and there have definitely been times I notice LO stirring straight after a particularly loud snore! However, I’m scared to take the leap as I worry he’s going to get worse at sleeping and his room is directly above ours so the idea of trudging upstairs to tend to him isn’t that appealing…

For context in terms of how he sleeps, we tend to see one wake around 5am, and it takes a while for him to re settle, and even then we probably only get another 45 mins sleep.

He goes down by 7.30pm, and he’s not strictly sleep trained but can self settle probably 60% of the time. Again, we want to ‘properly’ sleep train but understand this works best in their own room.

We do a dream feed at 10.30pm, of which he generally has half the bottle, which is another thing we ideally want to wean him off but worry it’ll cause another wake earlier in the night.

We follow the Sleep Chief Co’s 3 nap schedule of roughly 9.15 am nap (30-40 mins), 12.15 nap (1.5h but he struggles with this so often have to resettle him half way), and then a cat nap around 4.15 for 20 mins but recently he has been fighting this in the last week.

Does anyone have any positive experiences in moving their baby to their own room and also then sleep training them?

My baby is 12 days away from being 6 months and my husband and I have decided we are over having him in our room and resettling him ourselves..! He’s pretty big for his bassinet and my husband snores which I think might be disrupting baby’s sleep a little bit.

We went through a phase where he was almost sleeping through the night, both before and after the 4 month regression, but now things have got a bit worse again. Add to the mix teething and he’s learned to roll onto his tummy, it means he’s quite annoying and waking more (side note - does that make it a bad time to move him?!)

I understand sleep training works best when they’re in their own room and it’s something my husband and I want to do for long term better sleep. I’d say baby can self settle 60% of the time, although this has deteriorated since the rolling as he immediately rolls over gets stuck and cries, so more intervention is required to get him to drift off (we hold the dummy in his mouth until he falls sleep and then we take it out).

He’s probably waking 1.30am ish (think this might be a recent teething thing) and then 4.30-5ish, and we try to get him to go until 6.30ish after that. We put him down around 7, asleep by 7.20-7.30 and he’s on 3 naps a day, 9am ish for 30ish mins, 12.15 for ideally 1.5 h (this one is a struggle as I usually have to resettle him halfway) and then a short one around 4.15 for 20ish mins.

He’s quite a FOMO baby who is very alert and I worry that he won’t take well to sleep training as he’ll just stay awake for ages. I’d appreciate the wise words of experienced Redditors as to how and where to start?! There’s so much info out there I’m quite overwhelmed.

Thank you! ❤️

Please help! My 5.5mo has just learned to roll from back to tummy and is basically all he wants to do at any opportunity (in the bassinet, in the pram, in the big cot, on the changing table…). The second I put him down to sleep he will start trying to roll over. The problem is twofold:

1. He doesn’t yet know how to roll back

2. He doesn’t sleep on his tummy, he keeps his head up like he’s playing/doing tummy time and just shouts

How do I resolve this?! It’s driving me insane; it’s taking him ages to settle when I used to be able to put him down awake and he’d self settle 75% of the time.

Do they eventually learn to sleep on their tummies? Do I just have to keep flipping him over?

We were about to move him to his own room but now I fear I’ll just spend my life trudging upstairs to flip him over all night. It’s only been a few days but my husband and I are going insane already! Night wakes have increased the last few days and when he does wake up it’s a much more agitated cry than before. (Could also be teething too, FML).

Any advice or war stories appreciated!

Any help/advice/experience appreciated! I’m hoping to move my 5.5 mo to his own room soon and have been practising with naps in his big cot in his room.

Whilst he does sleep in there eventually, he spends a lot of time rolling onto his tummy and basically treating it as a tummy time session. He can’t yet roll back over onto his back, but I know a lot of people say it doesn’t matter and their baby just ended up sleeping on their tummy. Trouble is, I don’t think he knows he can sleep on his tummy and so just ends up staying awake and babbling or getting angry.

I’m worried when we attempt him in his room overnight he’s just going to spend the whole night doing this. Does anyone have any words of wisdom?! He gets lots of tummy time during the day and I’m trying to get him to learn to roll the other way but no joy yet without assistance.

Very anxious about this but my husband and I feel it’s time for him to go from the bassinet in our room as he’s now basically too big for it..!

Seeking advice or reassurance! My 5 month old has started napping horrendously; he’s never been great but I’ve previously relied on him napping in the stroller either for short naps in the late afternoon (first nap tends to be in his cot) and for his longer middle of the day nap. He appears to be fairly low sleep needs, his wake windows are approx 2.25/2.5/2.5/2-2.5 with bedtime being 7ish (sometimes he won’t sleep until 7.30). His first and last nap are typically around 30 mins and previously his middle nap around 1.5.

However, since he has learned to roll in the last week he has started refusing naps and is just trying to roll ALL THE TIME even in the pram. He just kicks his legs and tries to flip himself over.

My longer term goal is to get him to do his middle of the day nap in his cot but he can’t seem to connect sleep cycles for naps in the cot, only at night.

Is any of this normal and have any of you experienced this? I’m so exhausted trying to get him to sleep- he thinks it’s hilarious…

FTM with a 17 week old, who prior to last week slept from 7.30 pm - 10.30pm (dream feed) and then woke up around 4.30 am, then 7am. We were pretty happy with this progress. Then BAM last Monday (a week ago exactly) he has a night of waking up every hour, so we assume this is the dreaded 4mo sleep regression as it has been like this ever since. His naps have gone to **** (no more than 30-40 mins regardless of whether it’s crib, pram, carrier etc, he’s on 4 naps a day.). I use huckleberry for next nap time predictions (ww are generally 1.75-2h) and feed him at roughly the same times every day, with the same wake up (although now he wakes up super early which is also a pain).

Whilst he’s not fully sleep trained he has recently started self settling when I put him to bed and also for the first nap of the day in his crib, and he hasn’t started rolling yet.

My mental health has completely deteriorated, I am so knackered and worry we will never sleep again. Please tell me this can be overcome?! I am on my knees….