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Loooong night

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MissHoney85 · 25/04/2021 02:30

Just after some sympathy and a hand hold really. My baby is 18 weeks old and has never been a good sleeper, but this last week has got ridiculous. Last Saturday she slept 5hr15 straight, her longest ever, and I was so happy I wanted to text everyone in my Contacts to tell them. That seems to have been a freak event though, because since then she's slept for 2-3 hours to start the night then woken every 1-2 hours.

Tonight is especially bad. I was so hopeful that it would be better after she settled herself nicely in her cot, but she was awake after 2.5 hrs and my heart sank in my chest, and she is now waking every hour. She's been in bed since 7 and it feels like the night will never end.

My DH will take her for a couple of hours in the morning but she's ebf so there's not much he can do at night. My baby is so sweet during the day but I'm worried I'm failing her by not helping her to sleep better. She only gets an average of 11 hours of sleep a day but I just don't know how to help her to sleep more. I feel so alone and so tired. I just want someone to come and fix it for me but this is the first time in my life that no one can do that. 😔

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NightCzar · 25/04/2021 11:36

Poor you! My youngest is 10 now but she was like this. I was totally deranged. When everyone else talked about the 4 month sleep regression I remember thinking that mine had nowhere to regress from.

We moved her into her own room and started solids at 20 weeks (I don't know what the current solids advice is, but it was within the guidelines at that time) and it was magical. I don't know which thing it was, but she suddenly started doing longer stretches.

I also gave a bottle of formula most nights before bed for both kids. For the eldest it meant she was doing about 6 hours from 9 weeks. For the youngest it made no difference. But you could consider it perhaps. Good luck. I feel for you x

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