Easy baby stories pleaseeeeee!!!

[Iret]

Feeling so anxious. Just want some positivity rather than the ‘you’ll never sleep again’ very helpful remarks.

I loved the newborn stage. I absolutely loved it. Breastfed, co-slept, basically just let him set the rhythm of our days and nights and spent most of my time wondering at his perfect little self. Helps a lot having a partner who is happy to do basically everything that isn’t feeding a baby, and the success criteria of “everyone fed and nobody dead” for your days, but honestly I felt like everyone went on about how hard it is and forgot to mention that it’s bloody lovely as well (and they have little personalities and will make you laugh amazingly early on).

Mine usually slept through the night from about ten weeks. A few months later, there was a brief but welcome phase when she slept from 7pm to 8am.

AND at about the same age, she’d sit and play nicely in her playpen for a few minutes while I got on with something else in the same room. Shame that stage didn’t last!

DD1 slept 12 hours a night from 6 weeks. If we went out late, she came out with us, went to sleep when we came back and then slept 12 hours from then. So if we went out until 10pm, she would sleep until 10am.
She also slept 3 hours in the afternoon.
She did this until she was nearly 4yo when she dropped the afternoon sleep, but still used to ask to play in her bedroom quietly for a "little bit" which was usually 2-3 hours.
She ate everything and put on weight perfectly.

As you don't want negative stories I won't tell you about dd2, but I will say that we didn't do anything different.

DD was unicorn baby. Hardly ever cried and only woke up once a night.
Had her nappy changed, fed, winded then back to sleep.
Thats why I stopped at one on the basis that I'd never be that lucky if I had any more. I was fearful about ending up with one like me who only slept for an hour a day and screamed constantly.

DS1 was a nightmare baby. But I was still obsessed with him. However he spoke very early and was the easiest toddler from 18m on. Never tantrummed. Polite and loves chatting to people. He's 5 now and his class walked past me as I did the school run he shouted 'I love you mummy, have you had a nice day?'

DS2 was the sleepiest baby in the world. He slept through before 6 weeks and just sat in his bouncer happy as a clam. We had a redundancy/I had to work at 3 months/4x housemoves before he was 6 months and he made the whole thing so much less stressful. He woke every 3 hours on the dot during the day. He's slower to communicate than his bro and some days are tough because of that but he's still pretty easygoing and loves a day at home chilling.

I found babies easy toddlers, on the other hand, drove me mad. That said, I had babies that never woke more than once in the night for a feed and slept through the night from twelve weeks (six weeks for a couple of them) My eldest is mid thirties so they were fed by the clock, slept up the garden in the pram morning and afternoon and routine was king. My youngest is nineteen and things had changed a great deal and I was told by the MW the new way of doing things but truth be told youngest was in a routine before the MW had finished calling.