Baby sleep help

[Thegoodbadandugly]

I am being exhausted my baby wakes up absolutely every hour has anyone got any tips? I feel like I could sleep on a clothes line.

How old is your little one? When my DD was tiny we had the same and decided to use a Tommee Tippee Grobag with her arms in. This stopped her jerking herself awake so often and we got longer stretches and less wake ups at night. Though when they're very very tiny waking up lots is the norm because their tiny little bellies can't hold much milk.

She is 6 months old and thank you I had not thought of a grobag.

@Thegoodbadandugly if she's 6 months old she's probably rolling so definitely don't use an arms-in Grobag.

Have you considered/do you co sleep?

My LO went through a stage of waking hourly about 6/7months I was beside myself with exhaustion. Cosleeping is the only way I got through it.

For what it's worth, don't waste your time and energy trying to work out what you're doing 'wrong'. Some baby's are just wakeful and it's not our fault. We've just got to give them love and comfort and ride out the storm!

What is baby's daytime sleep like? I'm no expert but I think a lot of night sleep is linked to wake windows/total awake time during day and length and timing of naps.

Bless you. It's so tough, my little man was like this and I thought I was losing my mind. Like a previous poster said, co-sleeping was the only way any of us got any sleep. People kept saying I was making a rod for my own back by doing that but he is now 16 months and will only sleep in his cot. Hope you manage to get some sleep, it really is the pits. But it honestly will get better. Xx

My DS is 6 months next week and for his entire life he has never slept anywhere other than with me in bed. Same as you, he would wake hourly and wanting the boob.

I have just stopped breastfeeding and giving formula instead and also I have been putting him on his tummy to sleep and he has been sleeping in his next to me crib for hours!!! I can't believe it. He started sleeping on my chest and then I transitioned him slowly into sleeping on his tummy in the crib (before the mum police say anything, I am aware of the risks of tummy sleeping, my baby can roll both ways and has very strong head and neck control so I am not worried). It might be worth a try as long as you know he's strong enough to lift his head and not sleep face down? Most babies prefer to sleep this way.

I would never co sleep I had an aunt that lost a child through co sleeping.

She doesn't actually sleep that much during the day.

@Thegoodbadandugly my LO was napping around 3-3.5 hours per day at this age (9 mo now and naps 2-3 hours a day. It may be that by the time it gets to bedtime they are overtired, I know the sleep experts say overtired babies wake frequently at night. Does baby fight naps a lot in the daytime then? Have you tried different methods I.e. cot naps with blackout blinds and white noise, pram naps, contact naps . X

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