To think my baby might put more effort into sleeping

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She is wonderful but at 9 months old I’m rather tired at being woken up every hour.

I hear you…

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Ferber is your friend. I lasted 10m of hourly wakings and then did one night of Ferber and the next she slept 7-7. Can't believe I didn't do it sooner.

45 years old here and I wish I put more effort into sleeping ..... sigh .....

It does get better OP

She’s perhaps not tired enough! I’ve had 4 girls and looking back their night wakings after a certain age were defo due to lack of tiredness - I see if now with my 2.5 year old - if she has a nap at nursery she’s awake nearly every hour, no nap equals 6.30pm - 7.30am sleep! Amazing what a difference the 1.5 hour nap makes!

LTB (leave the baby) 😂😂

This is clearly a joke before the mumsnet army jump on me!

Stop the naps.

At nine months?

For a nine month old?

YANBU OP. Can't believe so many women put up with these awful people in their house who bring in no money and leave you all the housework. I'll echo the LTB suggestion above.

Cot-lodger

Genuinely cackling 😂

I agree. I bet she expects you to feed her on demand as well?

If it helps, once she has cracked it, your sanity will return within days.

I've an 11 month old who hates sleeping, it's quite rude of him really 😤 🤣

I feel for you op. At least my dc had the decently to go 2 hours in between squawking the house down. I breastfed but started to give a bottle at night, plus I gave solids earlier than recommended, which helped. I even tried a few sessons with the baby with a chiropractor to make sure there was no skeletal reason!

Mine can sleep for up to three hours in the day (7 weeks old). So why is more than 30 minutes at a time completely impossible in the night?! I agree, she's just not putting the effort in.

(I would sleep when the baby sleeps but unfortunately that would lead to the toddler running riot all over the house.)

Saaaaame same. No answers just sympathy

Urgh I rember this well. My youngest D's woke hourly till he was 3. It almost broke me. I have no advice just sympathy, hope she settles down soon.

Thank you all xxx

This!

DS1 still doesn't sleep through the night. He is, however, the most loveliest teenager I know, and (with exceptions of his elephant like footsteps) leaves everyone else to sleep between 11pm and 6am.

Ferber. We did at 6 months and by night 2 he slept through or sometimes just wakes once for a feed (rather than every couple hours before). No fuss going off to sleep now and he only wakes and cries when genuinely hungry rather than just to suck on my nipple for comfort.

Just adding to the people saying Ferber.
It was literally like magic. Mine used to wake up every 35 mins, all night.

After the first night we went down to waking twice for feeds (was six months when we started) and then a month later dropped to one feed. By 9 months no feed and no wake ups.

There really wasn’t much crying involved, which I know is a worry.

Really recommend the book, don’t just use the charts online. I downloaded the e-book on my phone, stayed up all night reading it, and literally changed my life the next day.

Do “Gina Ford Lite” ignore all the nonsense about a dark room and when you should eat toast etc.

just wake the baby up and feed him/her at 7am every day regardless of what has gone in the night.

Then the day routine just starts to fall into place. We always did the dream feed as well.

knew loads of parents Who’s babies would sleep 7-2am then struggle to drop back off.

so we did bedtime at 7ish and a dream feed about 10.30pm so it meant the long stretch was the other side.

This wins Mumsnet for the day. Possibly year.

Ha ha. Literally no other response will top that.