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My 5.5 month old is somehow continually getting worse sleep. Around 2-3 months he was sleeping from 7-8pm ish til 3-4 am ish to eat consistently,( even got a few 8-6 nights) then would sleep til around 6 and eat again, and sometimes nap til 8-9. A week or so after he turned 4 months he started the frequent wakings more like around a 1 am wake up, then again around 4 and 6 roughly. That lasted a few weeks. Now over the past week he has gotten much worse. He gets put to bed between 7-8 pm, based on when he was wakes up from his final nap. Hes waking up within an hour of being put down, sometimes less that 20 min, and is absolutely screaming sobbing when he gets up. And that continues hourly all night long. No swollen gums or visible teething. He’s been doing the drooling and chewing everything for 2 months and no change in that. He’s passing gas easily at night.

He use to be easy to settle overnight. He would wake up, diaper change, eat, and go back down no tears. On bad nights, the second half of the night after the 3 am feed he would co sleep, but always make it the majority of the the night in the bassinet. Now even being held doesn’t help him sleep. He seems upset held and rocked, in his bassinet, or in my bed out of desperation. Nothing is helping us get any sleep.

He recently transitioned to 3 naps a day. Wake windows around 1.75/2/2/2.5 roughly depending on tired cues. He gets between 3-4 hrs of nap time over the 3 naps. Usually ends up being 3 hr 45 min. Prior when he was doing the 4 naps a day he was having a lot of issues napping during the day and fighting sleep, but the new nap schedule helped a lot to where he goes down easily for naps and 50% of the time makes it though a nap non contact once sat down.

Is he over tired ? Under tired ? Just a regression? Teething ? Is something wrong I’m missing ? Anyone have any advice or a similar issue ??

Parents of Reddit, do you include a warm bath as part of your night time routine, and have you noticed if it helps your baby sleep better?

Hello all I’m in need of some help. My 17 month old has been waking for the past week at 5/5:30 every morning. We do not get her until 6am. So our schedule is 6 am wake noon nap till 2pm and 7 pm bedtime. For anyone who has done this before am I doing something wrong ? She averages about 13 hours of sleep before this week. So used to be 11 overnight and 2 during nap. I just wanted to add that she had been sleeping from 7-6/6:30 and I don’t know what’s changed.

Please help!

Hi All

I have a 3 month old baby that I cannot seem to put to sleep earlier no matter what I do
His sleep time is between 12am-2am. His sleep lately has been a bit disruptive waking every 2.5 hrs, he wakes up for feeds and then will be up for the day at 10am depending on how he goes for the night. Sometimes he is up earlier but he doesn’t sleep through the whole night

Is this normal and how can I improve it ?? Do I just need to wait it out until he gets older ?? Am I doing anything wrong ?? He is always in the daylight during the day and at night it is darker for him. His naps currently during the day are very short and assuming that’s because of a growth spurt

Thanks

My baby is 16 days old and is gaining weight but a little slower than what’s “normal” he gains about 2oz per 5ish days. He hasn’t reached his birth weight yet. The dr is not super concerned since he is still gaining and has plenty of wet and dirty diapers.

I am struggling with feeling like I am doing enough. I feel like a failure because he is not gaining as fast. The Dr said to try and keep him awake more on the breast but everything else seems to be great.

Has anyone experienced this and maybe has advice for me? Am I overthinking too much? He’s a very happy baby and seems perfectly healthy but I am feeling stressed out and exhausted after every feed just wondering if I am doing enough.

I’ve been tracking for about a year now. Not really sure when to stop- I mean part of me feels like having the data is good- we’re on 1 nap but still I feel like what if sleep needs change and I need to adjust? But I also feel like after 1 year or onto 1 nap we’re good and no need to track really. Plus no one I know tracks!

I have a 7 month old. No major sleep issues, but he still wakes 1-2 times a night and I'm eager for full nights' sleep since our daughter was fully sleep trained by 6 months. Is the premium subscription worth it? Anything that it does any different than what chatgpt gives me by uploading screen shots of the logs?

I have become a dad 10 days ago and purchased premium subscription but I am finding it hard to log everything about baby like poo, pee, nursing, pumping, bottle, sleep? How are you guys doing this, is there any trick to it or just discipline? TIA!!

for the past 2-3 weeks my 5 months old has been so hard to settle for naps during the day.

she‘s been going to bed at night between 7-8pm and does a good 11h with 1 feed waking.

lately when she wakes up between 6 and 7, we feed, play then do a small routine for bedtime at the 2h wake window mark and put her down awake in the crib. She will cry until we pick her up, and even when contact napping she will cry to sleep, which always extends her wake window. i try to start the routine 15 mins earlier to allow for the crying time, but its doesn’t work either.

i tried the 2h wake window, 2.15,2.3, 3, etc.

i tried getting her out of the room for a bit then back, it doesn’t work either. we do have the sound machine on and dark room.

im really at a loss at how to put her to bed without her crying every single time, although for bedtime she cries for 10-15 mins then sleeps, but during the day that doesnt work!

for the past two days she has been refusing the first nap and is up for about 4hours. i know she’s overtired but i tried to put her to sleep at least 3-4 times since her 2hrs wake window, went for a stroller walk and that didnt help either.

what can i do to get her to sleep😔

Hi!!! My baby has mild plagiocephaly according to his pediatrician. He’s 4.5 months. Im doing everything I can! Tummy time, carrier… he barely sits in the bouncer and he only lies on his back for the kicking toys. Unfortunately he’s stuck in the car seat an hour everyday because I take him along while picking up older siblings. He likes to sleep on his side and sometimes his tummy or back.
Mamas who had flat head babies— did their heads really get rounder overtime??? Pediatrician is not concerned and says helmet won’t be covered because it is not severe. But I’m so anxious and feel terribly guilty!!!

Hi my baby is almost 9 months and I decided to start sleep training cio method I’m typing this as I’m sleep training in the middle of the night he’s been crying for almost an hour 😭 idk if I can take this anymore am I doing something wrong?? Will he go to sleep and when I don’t understand I thought the way it works is they cry their heart out initially and then get tired and sleep. This is how it went tonight. My intervention made it worse but I was just worried. He’s on 3 solid meals takes between 600-700 ml normally has a MOTN feed at 5am ish. He deosnt normally feed before then but because he wouldn’t has his before bedtime feed I thought he was hungry . I’m
Confused

8:19pm - put him down
8:20 - standing, sitting in cot
8:25 - fussing, wriggling, no cries yet
8:29 - started crying
8:31 - sleeping
10:40 - wake-up fussing and small cries (2-3 mins went back to sleep)
12:13- wake up and fussing and small cries
12.20 - went to check his neck if cold started screaming crying got worse
1220 - make feed milk ??
12:25am - offered milk he didn’t want it
1:09am - still hysterical crying since