Share your schedule if your baby sleeps through the night!

[Tinydancer35]

Mammas if your baby sleeps through the night and is on solids, can you please share what your day look like?
What time you wake up?
What do babies eat and how much?
How long are wake windows?
BF or Bottlefed?
Did you do sleep training?

My DC is nearly 7months and wakes up at least 5x at night. I feel like I’ve tried everything but I want to give it once last shot before we use Ferber.

Thank you all in advance!!

Okay I've been where you are; from 6-8 months my eldest was up a minimum of 6-12 times a night. The important question is can your baby self-settle. Mine required a breast in his mouth to fall asleep.

I did sleep train during the day, but couldn't face crying at night for multiple reasons. So night times I used other soothing methods to transition him into self-settling.

It was gruelling. It was also worth it - after a couple of weeks he was reliably sleeping through again

I'm in a rush now but feel free to PM me/ask specific question on the thread if you want to know more

Ahh I feel your pain - but I’m not sure there’s a science to it in the way that you’re hoping. I know that people will try and convince you there is in order to make you part with your cash, but I don’t believe it.

I have three young children. Didn’t do anything differently with any of them. Had one non-sleeper, one great sleeper, and one somewhere in between.

Thanks you so much for your response.
I’ll PM you I’m desperate for any advice.

I’ve been wondering about that as well but out of my 5 friends my baby is only one who is such a bad sleeper, that’s why I’m riddled with guilt that I’m doing something wrong. 😢

You're not doing something wrong. Babies just all sleep differently. The sleep training/routine advice only works for about 20% of them apparently - enough to make it feel like it commonly works!

I recommend following Lyndsey Hookway on social media, she is very reassuring.

I am also in this boat. Could you share what you did to self settle at night as I am in exactly the same position as you were?!

6-12 months was the worst sleep period for mine. They are learning so much. Eating, crawling, sitting, standing etc. each disrupts sleep. Mine started sleeping through the night from 14 months with no sleep training when he mastered walking confidently. Don't assume a routine is a magic cure although I really hope it works for you!

I think its more to do with the child rather than the routine and some are just good sleepers. I doubt its anything you are doing wrong.

Getting enough calories during the day is also a prerequisite (but not necessarily a solution as babies wake for lots of reasons). Mine did start sleeping through the night at 6-7 months after increasing the size of her daytime bottles (went from 6 x 5oz with one at night to 5 x 6oz all during the day. 6-12 months was actually the best period of sleep for us before it got totally distroyed by teething and nursery illnesses for the next year so it can really be up and down sometimes.

You’re not doing anything wrong at all!! I felt exactly like this with my eldest - I remember actually crying because he would never nap for longer than half an hour and everything I read insisted he needed to sleep for longer, if only I could just x, y, z… So much unnecessary anguish. That was just him. The middle one basically napped all day until four months. It was so much easier and more fun when I let go of all the external expectations!

I know what you mean but I’m so exhausted and grumpy all the time, pretty much since 4 month regression hit us, me and DH haven’t slept. This is starting to strain our marriage, we are very different now but I’m still hoping I can fix it😢 if only DC slept, life would be so much better.

There is no magic routine, there are different babies who develop at different rates.

Ferber does not train your baby to sleep. It trains them not to cry out for you when they need you.

Many people I know who "sleep trained" their babies saw an improvement for a few weeks, then had to repeat the "training" over and over again, and ended up with worse sleepers in the long run who resist bedtime.

Don't listen to people who talk about bad habits. DD nearly 5 coslept up to 18 months, and we lay down next to her until she was asleep, until about a month ago when I felt she was ready. We read her stories and kiss her good night, she has a projector and meditation music. We have no arguments about bedtime, in fact, frequently she will ask to go to bed, no "just one more story" or "I'm thirsty/ hungry." Bed has not been made into a scary or lonely place for her.