Remind me when a newborn gets a bit easier

[Februaryschild2023]

10 days postpartum with my second and have hit a bit of a sleep deprivation wall. Please remind me of when things start to improve a bit to give me hope!

Around 10/11 weeks 😊 x

Definitely 10/11 weeks.

Keep strong 🫶🏻

10/11 weeks. All my love to you. It will get better!

I'm at 6 months and it's still not great. Dunno what I'm doing wrong, I really hope you get some sleep soon OP x

I feel like things got easier around 6 weeks - not easy but easier, then another improvement around 11/12 weeks ish.

Depends on the baby! But when they start smiling and interacting around six weeks you at least get some joy among the bellendery. Also when they stop pooing at night… ::glares at eight-week DS who is still going strong in this regard::

6 weeks slightly better (especially if currently struggling with breastfeeding) and 11/12 ish weeks hugely better

I always find a significant improvement around 6 weeks, and from then on a 2-forward-1-back gradual improvement.

But 6 weeks always felt like a bit of a breakthrough.

The first few weeks are so hard. 💐

About 18.

From distant memory, about three months.

Thank you!! Intellectually I KNOW things got a lot better at 12 weeks with my first, but currently struggling to truly believe it!

I was going to say the same 😆

10 weeks with first 2. Youngest is 16 months and slept through for first time last night 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️ coincidentally we moved her into own room yesterday so think DH snoring been disturbing her.

12 weeks when they start to smile.
It's all a bit '4th trimester' until then

Y'all that comment '18 years old' and think you're being helpful are wild 🤣
Its simply not true. I think you may have forgotten how gruelling the newborn stage is.
Deffo gets better 10-12 weeks ish then 3-4 months waaaay easier.

4 weeks. 6-8 weeks. 3 months. When they start solids. When they crawl. When they walk. When they can communicate more. Then lots and lots more stages of getting easier.

Mines 6 months and I feel like it's only gotten easier recently in terms of sleep. Sorry don't want to lie to you. however you do get used to the sleep deprivation and need less sleep. Even when my DH has him for the night I still wake up frequently and struggle to sleep as my body just isn't used to it xx

I know what you mean about KNOWING it gets better but not believing it! DS2 is 7 weeks and it is hard. I forgot how hard this was. So much crying, so little sleep. He has just started to smile which is nice but it just feels like one huge struggle at the moment. Looking forward to the glorious 10/11 week stage 😉

I remember a few people saying "it gets easier and harder", I think this is true. Some things get easier ... so after about 3 months, less nappies, less washing and you'll be more comfortable and confident. But then they sleep less and are more active, then around 4 months, like mine they might start crawling around so then that gets harder. I found newborn easiest as mine just slept and ate, but having to do those 3 hourly feeds was tiring.

8 months? Sleep gets better?

12 weeks or 12lbs whichever comes first.

When their sleep gets better. Whether that's weeks, months or years 🤷‍♀️

So for my first, by 2 weeks (but then it all went to hell at 4m, and she sleeps worse now at 5 YEARS then 5 weeks.)

For my second, it got easier about 6 weeks, then HARDER (as in newborn was a doddle in comparison) from 6-18m, then good from 18m-2.5, then mixed/hard since.

At the moment (she's 3) I'm surviving on 3-4 hours broken sleep a night - more than the awful 6-18m stretch, but less sleep then when she was a newborn.

I also know those whose children either slept through v early, or at least steadily improved in one direction.

For me, I adored newborns and didn't find their sleep (or lack) to be difficult. But I found later much more challenging (more demanding and slept worse). But those that hate the newborn stage tend to say it improves after about 3 months.

Realistically, it's probably going to be up and down for a while.

6 weeks was when I stopped hating life!

By about 3 weeks I was more or less recovered from the birth so that made life way easier. Being able to move without wincing changed things!
By about 6 weeks, we were getting regular smiles and that made a massive difference.
And then about 12 weeks things just clicked a bit - that also happened to coincide with longer evenings and it getting a bit warmer so it may have been as much to do with that as with the baby but I was also able to put them in their bouncy chair or play mat for a few minutes without immediate crying.