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Lid98 · 29/04/2024 21:51

At what age did people babies start doing longer stretches at night. We are nearly 8’months in and waking every 2 hours have been since 3 months old.
slowly going mad 🤣

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Jessb2021a · 01/05/2024 08:01

Lid98 · 30/04/2024 06:29

The only way to chill him out is to bf him yeah. Every 2 hours seems excessive though .

Every two hours seems totally normal to me for a EBF baby. It is sooooo hard though. I weaned at 20 months and it was like a magic switch. He has slept through the night ever since!

ExcitedButNervous0424 · 01/05/2024 08:05

Lid98 · 30/04/2024 06:29

The only way to chill him out is to bf him yeah. Every 2 hours seems excessive though .

I had a baby who did this and it was exhausting. I paid out for a Sleep Consultant when he was 9 months old because I just couldn’t physically or emotionally cope with it anymore. It was the best £100 I have ever spent 😂

RidingMyBike · 01/05/2024 08:36

Eight weeks. We did the pause method where we fed if she was hungry but paused a few seconds to check - found half the time she'd settle back into sleep again.

If she hadn't slept through earlier then I'd have night weaned at six months anyway and she was absolutely fine sleeping through from eight weeks in terms of growth and development - 8 hours a night then, went up to 11-12 by five months.

A friend crashed on the motorway due to sleep deprivation with an approx nine month old so I think night weaning would have been preferable.

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SErunner · 01/05/2024 09:26

BurbageBrook · 01/05/2024 06:50

@SErunner but you're giving this advice to a mother who is breastfeeding. Therefore your advice is particularly inaccurate. I still think it's unfair to a baby to nightwean at 6 months whether breast or bottle fed, however. That's my opinion.

Other people read these posts, you were generalising. But that's fine, you do you. Enjoy your superior existence :)

BurbageBrook · 01/05/2024 09:27

@SErunner I think you're projecting your guilt here for night weaning your baby at 6 months. Let me guess, you also let them CIO...

Lid98 · 01/05/2024 15:35

so sorry there are so many messages for me to individually reply to!

so he is in his own room this hasn’t really helped just means I’m up and down more. Our solids journey is quite slow so I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to night wean. I try to feed every 4 hours of a night however when it’s the only way to get him back to sleep sometimes I just give in. co sleeping tends to give us even more wakes. Thinking of getting a floor bed so I can join him for part of the night.

we tried giving formula that doesn’t help, haven’t tried formula at 10 though. However very hit and miss whether he takes bottle

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AegonT · 01/05/2024 17:08

DD1 11 months old
DD2 1 day old

We did nothing different but after the awfulness of DD1's sleep I was ready and willing to sleep train DD2 if necessary.

PoppingTomorrow · 01/05/2024 17:57

ExcitedButNervous0424 · 01/05/2024 08:05

I had a baby who did this and it was exhausting. I paid out for a Sleep Consultant when he was 9 months old because I just couldn’t physically or emotionally cope with it anymore. It was the best £100 I have ever spent 😂

Can I ask what they did for you?

ExcitedButNervous0424 · 01/05/2024 18:12

PoppingTomorrow · 01/05/2024 17:57

Can I ask what they did for you?

The service was phenomenal!

The first contact was via email and she asked me to keep a sleep diary for a week (daytime and night time sleep) and then send it to her, which I did.

She then emailed me back with a questionnaire that I had to complete that asked me all about the sleeping problems we had, why we thought they were occurring, what we had already tried and why it hadn’t worked. She also asked us to write about about the kinds of parents me and DH were so she could get an idea of our parenting styles.

After I returned that questionnaire she booked in a 2 hour phone call consultation that happened about 3 days later.

Initially the conversation focused on baby’s sleep cycles, what was realistic and what wasn’t, but also the importance of babies getting enough sleep to enable optimum development. We then spoke more about what I was struggling with and why I had reached the point of contacting her. She then talked to me about 3 different types of sleep training she does and we chose together what would be best for my son.

The last 1.5 hours was spent creating a very specific plan for my son including changing everything about his daytime schedules (naps and meal times) and then his bedtimes and nighttime (and nap time) rituals.

She gave me a very clear, step by step plan to follow and it worked amazingly! Me and DH had struggled for months with no real idea what we were doing so to have a very clear plan that had to be followed to a ‘T’ made things so much easier for us. We didn’t deviate it from it at all.

It was hard for the first few days but by the end of 7 days things had completely turned around for us all. It was astounding how much better things were. It sounds so cliche but it genuinely was like having a different baby.

The woman stayed in touch via email for a few weeks to follow our progress and check things were going as they should be so it was a really good service.

In the space of 10 days I went from being in a very, very dark place to having a baby who napped and slept wonderfully!!

PoppingTomorrow · 01/05/2024 18:15

Thank you @ExcitedButNervous0424 that sounds amazing. Sent you a PM.

Caspianberg · 01/05/2024 18:20

3+ years! Sorry

Night weaning didn’t help at all either for those going on about it. I stopped feeding overnight at about 9/10 months, and he still woken every 40mins-2hrs for years. He’s now 4 years and he still wakes every night and comes into our room at some point, but then sleeps until morning (so 1 wake, he will wake hourly if we resettle back in his bed)

NorthernDuck · 01/05/2024 19:59

I’d second a sleep coach, my baby is 5 months and was waking at best 8-10 times a night and worst every 25 minutes (apart from one glorious week at 10 weeks where he only woke 4 times a night and we thought we’d cracked it).
We had a sleep coach that came to stay with us for 3 nights, I still feed in the night (EBF) usually twice but occasionally only once. He usually sleeps 7-5, which is fine (anlthough hoping the 5am will drift later as he ages) and is normally fed at 7, 11, 2 and 5.
We have put him in his own room, I tried co-sleeping but he was still waking so frequently and DH wasn’t able to help settling as he was in the nursery on a camp bed 🤣. It got to the stage at 4 months where DH had taken 4 weeks off sick from work with stress and I was heading for a breakdown. We didn’t take the decision lightly to put him in his own room and sleep train. The baby was also exhausted from waking up so frequently and I feel that the impact of poor sleep on development isn’t really measured. The coach did the PUPD method and we’ve just continued, he still struggles to settle in the day for his afternoon nap so I just pop him in the pram for that nap. I have so much more energy to actually enjoy him and entertain him not just sit in front of the tv hoping he will sleep soon and probably me having more energy to take him out means he’s more stimulated so sleeps better.

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