The stalks sent me a faulty baby !!

[popgoesperfection]

Not looking for advice, just a moan and to see if anyone else got a faulty one ds is 7 1/2 month old, sleeps terrible. No set pattern, even though we have a solid bedtime routine, don't cuddle to sleep etc etc, he just sleeps shite. We have the odd night of 1-2 wake ups (these nights are utter bliss) then its back to what feels like the 200th wake up, I need sticks to keep my poor aged baggy eyes open. What I don't get is why all my friends got the perfect working babies 🤷🏻‍♀️ anyone else want to join in the moan ?

And I've just realised in my sleep deprived state I have spelled stalks wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ storks even.

Do you mean Storks?
Breast or bottle fed?
How does he get to sleep - dummy, etc?

There is nothing wrong with cuddling to sleep. Babies need to feel safe and secure to sleep.

Bottle fed, has a dummy. I do cuddle him then lay him in his cot and sit next to him until he's asleep. My first was the same, maybe I just don't produce good sleepers haha

Oh dear I have a faulty one as well. I’m still cuddling to sleep at 3. I’m currently pregnant and really hoping for a good sleeper this time.
I love it when people say if you have a good solid bedtime routine they’ll sleep. Yes like that wasn’t the first thing we tried and persisted with.

I had one of those he's 16 now and doesn't go to bed till after me and rises by lunchtime - it gets better its only a phase!

I got a faulty one too! He's 4.5 now and still a bit broken 🤷‍♀️ Baby number 2 has always slept like a dream.

Must have been a bad batch. My just turned 1 year old will now only feed to sleep. Up twice is a good night. Won't go to bed until 10 at the earliest. And barely naps other than on me!

Oh and she won't eat either. Good job she is otherwise pretty perfect!

I didn't produce a good sleeper but then I wasn't (am not) one either
It improves (mostly after night weaning, which I left til 21 mo)

Not perfect but often only one wake about 4 or 5 now and I just hop in with him in the full sized single as it's the easiest option and then we're all good til 7:30ish or a bit later

OP my 6.5 month old is exactly the same down to how he sleeps, he has a bottle and takes his dummy and then I sit next to him while he sleeps. But he still wakes every 3 hours for a feed

I wonder why it is that some babies sleep and some don't 🤔 had a friend message this morning saying her 4 week old has slept through for the last 4 nights !! 😮
Oh has he 🙄 that's lovely for you ! Haha

I have a faulty one, too!

13 months and yet to sleep through the night. 3 wake ups is bliss for me. If he wakes, takes his milk and falls back asleep, that's a dream night. Unfortunately, they are few and far between.

Then he seems to think wake up time is 4.15am.

Good job he's cute

Oh has he 🙄 that's lovely for you ! Haha

Hahaha that's how I feel when somebody tells me about their great sleeper.

I have a friend who had a baby around the same time and she just did not understand how hard it was for me.

I'd tell her I was near breaking point, so tired I could hardly function, close to tears etc. I'd get a reply,

"Not to rub it in, but DD slept from 8.00am-6.00pm last night with only one wake up for her dummy."

Couldn't give a fuck, too tired to care about your textbook baby 👍🏼

Have you kept the receipt? Appreciate you won't have the original packaging, but you should still be able to return. I'd recommend sending back ASAP or perhaps exchanging for a goldfish?!

I had a faulty version once but was too sleep deprived to return. It did start working perfectly in the end though, if that gives you hope?!

The worst is when someone with a good sleeper has an uncharacteristically bad night and says "oh it's worse for me. At least you're used to no sleep!" Um, fuck off. You don't "get used" to chronic sleep deprivation!

@popgoesperfection, hi we're on the same Dec baby thread... My son is just over 7 months and is also faulty with sleeping!!

I really thought we'd have a good night last night... He napped shockingly well in the day, had 2 meals, lots of breastfeeds, lots of active play to tire him out, did our usual evening wind down. I even managed to feed him until just drowsy and go to sleep in his snuzpod by himself... Aaaaaand he was up every 2 hours, was awake 4.30am till 6 and then slept till 7!!

Thankfully he is generally a happy little fella and food, babbling and moving all seems to be going well. It's just that he won't sleep! Apparently my brother was exactly the same and so was my dad.

Totally agree when you feel like yours is the only baby who doesn't sleep as well. It's like 'oh good for you with you 12 hours peace, obviously I'm just doing it all wrong, even though I'm doing the same thing' 🙁

@TokenGinger

Oh has he 🙄 that's lovely for you ! Haha

Hahaha that's how I feel when somebody tells me about their great sleeper.

I have a friend who had a baby around the same time and she just did not understand how hard it was for me.

I'd tell her I was near breaking point, so tired I could hardly function, close to tears etc. I'd get a reply,

"Not to rub it in, but DD slept from 8.00am-6.00pm last night with only one wake up for her dummy."

Couldn't give a fuck, too tired to care about your textbook baby 👍🏼

That’s the best thing I’ve read today and exactly what I’m feeling right now! 😂

There must have been a manufacturing error in the run up to Christmas as my 7 month old is faulty too. She's my 2nd DC and the 1st was and still is an absolute sloth as soon as his head hits the pillow.
Sending a salute to any fellow mamas at battle with sleep 😂

No advice, still struggling with a 2 year old, who is now night weaned and is marginally better, but not much. Has a bedtime routine, self settles and has been able to do so from being about 4 months old, despite not taking a dummy, has a decent daytime routine, charges about all day from the second he wakes up. None of it fucking works. I have no idea how people can get away with selling their 'methods' to people when it's all bloody pot luck.

Agree @grumpytoddler1 it is pot luck !!
Oh yes @KatnissK the your used to it comment....used to it, USED TO IT !! No I am not used to it, I have no choice but to keep going, otherwise I would quite happily be asleep under the table/in the shed/on the fucking washing line !!!!
Hi @Fivebyfive2. It is quite disappointing when you think you might have a good night, then you don't isnt it !! If only they came with manuals !!!
I have tried to return @ButterflyWitch but they won't let me 🤷🏻‍♀️
And then I feel bad for moaning because all the other mummies love all parts of being a mum, sleep deprivation and all!! Oh piss off.

What fuel are you using? Mine slept better once fully weaned.

Mines so broken, we co-sleep and mostly use the cot for very expensive storage!!
I realise co-sleeping isn't for everybody and I am probably making a rod for my own back but I generally never feel tired because I just doze through the baby helping himself to milk.
Solidarity though, sleep-refusers are tough! and I secretly pray that the ones with the perfect 7-7 sleepers will have terrible tantrummy toddlers!

I had a poor sleeper and followed this guide with much success.

Part of the problem was the dummy.

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Your-Sleepless-Baby-The-Rescue-Guide-by-Bennett-Rowena/9781925049121

My daughter was a night shift worker dream 10-6 every night from 8 weeks her brothers (especially the youngest who was awake at five to four this morning) are hell in underpants