To ask how many times your baby woke last night and how old they are?

[bumpandkind]

Going mad with sleep deprivation and need support!

Mine's four months, woke 11, 2,3, 4 with final waking at 5.30. Make my coffee a strong one! Hope you are ok, op. I've resolved to stop asking as always seems the first to answer say 'oh, my baby's sleeping through'. The quieter mums are the ones having a crap time of it. X

Not at all. He's 9 weeks.

This is my prize for DS1 who woke up every 2 hours, screamed for a hour then went back to sleep. For 10 months. How we ever conceived DD during that time is a bloody mystery to me.

11 weeks, woke at 12 (settled with a cuddle), 1 and 5 for feeds. Was awake and wriggly from about 6.

3 year old woke at 5.45 for a wee, then shouted every 10 mins till 7 (but that's dh's department).

Congratulations fakebook, 5 days old and sleeping like that is not bad. Can I suggest muslins soaked in hot water wrapped around your breasts? Worked wonders for me in the early days.

Ds is 18 months and like dd now aged 10 years has been sleeping through 6-6 from about 12 weeks.

However, this week both ds and I have awful colds so we have both been up and down like yo yos and finally up at 5am.

I feel absolutely wrecked. My hats off to those of you with babies still regularly waking. It is torture.

3.5 months up twice for feeds and once for general grumbles. Not bad but was better until a few days ago

5 months and 4 times is normal...

I had two to four regular wake ups up to 12/13 months and then it was one for a few motnhs and now it's none or one at 22 months

Almost 5 months here too.

DD was tired after having her afternoon nap cut short for a hospital appointment so went to bed at 6.30.

She woke at 8, 11.30, 2.30 and just before 8.

The morning wake up is the gentle one as she lies in bed talking to her toy and mobile and laughing!

She's teething so didn't eat much at 11.30, meaning she was really hungry at 2.30. She'd normally have gone til about 4.

I feel your pain.

DS is 4 weeks, was up at 10.30,1am, 3am and 5am for feeds but is awake for about an hour each time, sleep deprivation, what a killer :)

4 years.... twice, which is nice, usually losds more.

DD is 9 mo and wakes about 3 times.
I'm no longer certain how often she wakes up though because I tend to bring her into bed with me to feed after her first waking.
I am beginning to worry about my sanity tbh.

And the next person who tells me I should stop breastfeeding her will be sorry.

Thanks bump, will definitely try the soaked Muslins. I've tried everything else too but she doesn't have a very good latch right now so extra milk is building up which I need to express.

Have you ever tried white noise? I used it religiously with DS from 6 weeks up until he was about 8 or 9 months. I don't know why, something about falling rain used to knock him out within 60 seconds.

18 months and fuck knows how many times. Don't count anymore.

6 months and up 7 times. I've not had more than 2 consecutive hours of sleep since he was born.
definitely need

2 & a half & he was up 3 times which is standard. 13yo dd1 got up at midnight to sneak her ds (now confiscated) & ds1 (7yo with ASD) was up half the night as usual), dd2 (4yo) slept all night but didn't go to sleep until 9:30 ... knackered doesn't even begin to describe me.

DD is 5 months and now sleeping peacefully but has the start of a cold and I suspect her second tooth erupting. Last night we watched In The Night Garden together in bed until 12,30 (emergency measure), asleep by 12.45 and then cried every half hour, didn't want to feed wanted to go back to sleep on me but only if I stood up! I got one solid hour of sleep between 5.30 and 6.30. This is in no way normal, we're at my mum's whilst work is done at home.

I send and in sympathy for all the other mum's who had terrible nights last night. Please send match sticks for my eyes please

TheRealAmandaClarke my ds's sleep didn't change at all when I stopped bfing him.

DD is almost 13m and woke 3 times which isn't bad for us she did tKe an hour to settle at 3:30 though

5 months here. Put down at 8 asleep at 9, woke at 10 but back to sleep after some shushes and patting. Fed her at midnight when we went to bed and was back to sleep at half past. Woke up at 5 for feed, than back to sleep at half past till 7.30. So I guess that counts as 3 wakings...
She can be better but it was our fault we couldn't get a babysitter so we took her shopping with us (we both like to go as we like to meal plan as we're going round and each thinks the other will forget stuff!) An earlier bedtime can mean she just needs her dream feed and will go till 6 when DPs alarm goes.
Have noticed in the last week she's just improved - I hope she's coming out of her version of the 4month sleep regression so fingers crossed things also improve for you on that front...

Hi OP, I've only read your posts but my fella is 5 months and was up 4 times too and he is formula fed - very unfair

3.5 months, bed at 8:30ish, up at 12:30 for food, 4:15 and 5:30 and wanted to play. Chucked him (not literally) back in the cot and let him coo and laugh to himself till he started crying for food at 6:45.

We were in a nice routine of a dreamy feed at 10ish, eat at 3am and up at 7 for a few weeks but that's gone straight out the window the last few days. Maybe the 4 month sleep regression a bit early?

We aren't doing any sleep training though and just let him do what he wants for now as i find that easier than trying to make him sleep when he doesn't want to.

DS slept from about 12 - 6 from almost day one. And then we thought we'd get him sleeping some more and started to putting him to bed at 8 and he decided different. Slept beautifully from 8-2 and then was up for three to four hours. Eventually we went with the flow and from about 3 we let him go to bed at 10 and he was always up with the lark. (He did have a two hour sleep though in the afternoon until he was about 2.5).

DD was entirely different and would go down at 7, be lifted for a feed at 11 and then would wake at 1, 3, 5, and probably not go back after that. That went on until she was about 2.5 although again eventually we pushed back the bedtime to cut down the waking in the night. She was up at least once until she was about 4/5 I think.

But they are 19 and 15 now and I've forgotten all about it. In fact with the older one I'm still up in the night either awake because he's not home and I worry or he forgets his keys and there's a little phone call from the doorstep at 3am. I often think I wish he was yelling in the cot and I knew he was safe. Although this too is passing.

You're doing the hardest yards of all OP but you will look back on them as special days one day. It does get better, promise. Not least because the baby gets more and more rewarding.

9 months DD went to bed at 9pm then was up 11pm-4:30am. Woke up for the day at 6:40am. I had less than 2 hours sleep, & coffee isn't working.

She used to be brilliant, 12 hours straight through, god only knows where it all went wrong.

3yo DS slept 8pm-8:15am though! He had medical probs as a baby (still does, but better controlled now) & until he was 6 months old he never slept for more than an hour, & pretty much just cried & screamed for the first 6 months of his life.

I feel for you, fingers crossed for tonight!