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3 month old still waking every two hours!!??

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AmberRose26 · 10/10/2026 04:01

How did everyone’s babies sleep at 3 months old?

Baby girl is 3 and half months and still waking every two hours .. sometimes only 1 and a half hour stretch !! 😵‍💫 she did go through a stage of getting 3/4 hour stretches with a handful of 5 and a half hours a few weeks ago that was for a couple of weeks that lasted (after her 6/8 week stage) but for the last 3 weeks (around 12/13 weeks old) been back to two hours stretch’s averaging … is this normal .. HELP !!!! … I am so tired. I have been reading about the 4 month sleep regression and wondering can it be this (but early) I am currently just breast feeding her back to sleep (still exclusively BF) but sometimes I do just cuddle her and that ticks her back over. ANY TIPS / IDEAS !?

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Mommydearest3 · 10/10/2026 04:16

10 month old, EBF, still waking throughout the night. Settles quickly but 🫠 I am exhausted (hello 4am club). Condolences is all I can offer, sounds like the 4 month regression has come early.

Either way it’s completely normal - I gave up and ended up bed sharing (safe sleep 7 in a bedroom of my own away from my DH) just to get some proper rest but it’s deeply jarring hearing so many baby group pals who have babies that sleep through the night.

Main differences I’ve found seem to be temperament or being bottle fed / take a dummy. Meanwhile my Velcro EBF baby won’t take a dummy, only wants the nipple and gets upset if I put her down 🤣 …as hard as it is, none of this lasts forever! 🩷

AmberRose26 · 10/10/2026 04:24

@Mommydearest3 thanks for the reply, tonight I have been the 11 /1 and 3 now 4 am club 😅.. we are the same, she won’t take a dummy, I have been co sleeping her in my bed since birth as she’s never went in the Moses basket .. she was taking a bottle and I was expressing for a while to begin with to let DH feed through day but went a few weeks without and now she won’t take a bottle either 😵‍💫.. my DH is also in the spare room as he works full time so I let him sleep.

yeh I guess your right it doesn’t last forever, just wondering when the light at the end of the tunnel will be nearing and visible !!

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AmberRose26 · 10/10/2026 04:25

@Mommydearest3 do you get any longer stretches at all or are you still up every two (ish) hours ? And well done you for going this long !!

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FlowerVases · 10/10/2026 05:34

It's not uncommon. It's a tiny baby.

sleepandcoffee · 10/10/2026 05:43

Very normal, I was up every 2 hours right until both my children were about 7 months and then it started to get better . With the constant cycle of regressions, teething, developmental learning I found sleep got the brunt of it !
it wasn’t until my children were well over 2 that I would get the occasional full night sleep but mostly I would still be up .

AutumnHere4721 · 10/10/2026 23:15

Sounds normal. Babies are hard.

We thought the same re early sleep regression but then 4 months hit and THAT was the regression. I lost my mind.

We sleep trained around 5.5 months. Ferber. I thought my baby would be traumatised as he was taking 1hour+ of rocking but turned out he wanted to be put down! He only cried a grand total of 10 minutes. He would cry much longer than that in my arms!

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