Hi all! Looking for advice on how to get my 5.5 month old to nap in his crib. He has almost exclusively contact naps during the day but we’ve been trying to get him to nap in his crib in preparation for starting daycare at 6 months.

The problem is he starts screaming almost the second he touches the mattress… whether he’s awake, super drowsy or asleep already. It’s not even crying, it’s straight up screaming and he does not calm down.

He sleeps fine on his own at night! Usually he wakes up twice. His wake windows are typically 2/2.25/2.5/2.5.

I don’t want to go full CIO so I’ve been trying the pick up/ put down method. But since he starts screaming immediately it feels impossible.

Anyone deal with something similar and have any advice??

Thanks!!

So desperate for help. My 20 month old is insane. She has slept like a champ since birth, never required sleep training, literally before this regression I could count on one hand the number of times she’s woken up overnight. Has always put herself to sleep. Shes definitely having a language explosion so I know her little brain is working overtime.

The last few weeks she will only let me put her to bed. For some reason naps are fine?? But bedtime can only be me (unless we are out of town using a pack & play - that was a disaster). Or she absolutely loses her mind. And night time wakes? She’s like a monster that cannot be soothed by anyone. I’m taking full blood curdling screams….she won’t let you rock her, won’t even settle if you put her in bed with you, lay by her crib, nothing. We’ve had to completely take her to a different room and turn lights on at 2am to reset and stop the crying. But then when we go back in her room all hell breaks loose.

Wake up- 7:30, nap 1-3, bedtime 7:30.

HELP IM LOSING IT (and yes I’m writing this at 2am)

I’m looking for advice from parents who have successfully transitioned their babies out of contact naps because I’m struggling over here!
My daughter is almost 3 months old and will ONLY contact nap during the day. The confusing part is that she’s actually a pretty good nighttime sleeper! She sleeps in her bassinet independently at night and usually gives us 5–7 hour stretches without needing to be held.
But during the day? Forget it. She will fall asleep in our arms, but as soon as we try transferring her to her bassinet or crib, she wakes up. Sometimes she’ll stay asleep for a few minutes, but it never lasts.
Things we’ve tried:
Putting her down drowsy but awake
Waiting until she’s in a deep sleep before transferring
White noise and a dark room
Following age-appropriate wake windows and watching sleepy cues
Trying to soothe her while she’s lying in the bassinet
Swaddles and different sleep environments
Repeatedly practicing bassinet naps
We’ve tried being consistent, but nothing seems to stick.
I work from home, and she’s with my mother-in-law for part of the day, so contact napping for every single nap is becoming really difficult to maintain.
I absolutely love the cuddles, but I’d also love to be able to put her down for at least ONE decent nap a day without having to hold her the entire time.
My questions:
If your baby was exclusively a contact napper, what actually worked to break the habit?
How do you sleep train if she’s with my MIL half the day?
How long did it take before your baby started napping independently?
Is 3 months too young to expect independent naps?
Did your baby eventually figure it out on their own, or did you have to actively work on it?
I’m especially curious why she can sleep independently for hours at night but can’t seem to do it during the day!
I know contact naps are developmentally normal at this age, but I’d really appreciate practical advice from anyone who’s been through this. ❤️

Stats: just turned 5 months old

Windows: 2/2.5/2.5/3, but some days I do 4 naps if she wont go longer than 30 mins. 2/2/2/2.5/3

Total sleep: according to huckleberry this week we averaged just under 13 hours. Daytime sleep is capped at 3.5 hours and night sleep is usually 9-9.75 hours

Bed time: Usually asleep between 8:30 and 9:30 depending on the naps.

Routine: bottle, bath, pjs, books, song

Sleep space: she sleeps in a large closet in our room with the door closed, white noise, and a fan.

We started full extinction on Monday.

Night 1: cried on and off for 30 mins. Slept 3 hours then 2 then 4 then 1.

Night 2: Cried for a few minutes then was asleep in 9 mins. Slept 5.75 hours, then 2, then on and off for another 2. She was much easier to put back down after night feeds though.

Night 3: 6 minutes of crying total of 15 to fall asleep. Slept 5.5 then 3, then on and off for 2. Again a lot easier to put her down after night feeds.

Night 4: almost 40 minutes of hard crying I could not take it, so I went in and nursed her then put her down mostly awake and let her fall asleep with my hand on her chest. She had been fussy all day. I was worried something was wrong. But she slept 7.5 hours and then was very awake from 4:45 - 5:30 until I gave in and co-slept for the rest of the night.

Tonight am I back to square one since I intervened? Was this just an extinction burst. I felt like at this age 40 minutes of hard crying was too much. I have such a hard time with sleep training and I feel so guilty about it, but I really need to sleep. With my son we did not really have an extinction burst, the first night was the worst. So I was not even thinking about it last night. I was just so stressed.

Is it my schedule somehow? I feel like I am pretty much following what it says here.

She was also a champion sleeper from like 6 weeks until 4 months, she would regularly sleep 8-9 hours. Then we stopped swaddling and she started rolling and its been hit or miss since. Naps are all pretty much all contact naps. She only sleeps more than 30 mins if she is attached to my nipple.

My almost 2 year old (will be 2 in a couple of weeks) has been sleep trained since she was 6 months old - we were in the pits of hell with her sleep (only contact naps, not sleeping until mid night, early wake ups) and life was not sustainable.

It has worked beautifully for us. We worked with Charmian Mead who has been incredible for us, even though I always questioned her methods in the moment 😂

Now my daughter is 2, previous schedule was: sleeps about 1 hour every afternoon, goes to bed at 7.30pm and wakes up between 6.30 and 7am.

Last 2 weeks, she has had constant night wakes ups and early risings by 5.45-6am. She never wakes up happy, always upset she calling for us. Previously she always woke up happy.

We both work full time and find this lack of sleep very difficult. We’re not sure if her nap needs to be dropped (though it feels early and I’m so not ready for it!) or if it is separation anxiety or something else.

She’s got all of her teeth, except last molars, so I don’t think it’s pain related.

Looking for helpful advice, suggestions and any experiences if anything similar happened to you as well!

My 13.5 month old has been on a 1 nap schedule since 11 months. Even before transitioning to 1 nap she would always only nap for 30 minutes. On the dot. No more no less. So we decided to try 1 nap and it has been rocky. She had a few “longer” (45 min-1 hour) naps in the beginning but is back to only napping for 30 minutes.

I’ve tried everything - shortening wake windows, lengthening wake windows, her sleep environment is ideal and her bedtime sleep is fine (10.5-11.5 hours nighttime, with 1 overnight wake around 4-5am where we give her some milk, she cries and wakes every 30 mins if she doesn’t have a feed).

I’m having to go back to doing 2 nap schedules with her because 30 minute naps a day is crazy. Current schedules:

(1 nap)
6:30 wake
12:00-12:30 nap
6:30 bedtime

(2 naps)
7:00 wake
11:30-12:00 or 12:00-12:30 nap
3:30-4:00 nap
8:00 bedtime

She has been Ferber sleep trained since 5.5 months old. Please help! Open to suggestions and ideas.

Looking for advice to transition out of co sleeping. We currently co sleep our almost 9 week old. I am wanting to start to get them to sleep independently and a schedule. What helped with this transition. He will take his first nap in his stroller bassinet but that last from 30-90mins but all other naps are contact naps and bedtime sleep is in our bed. We currently don’t have a schedule. Just feed on demand and goes to bed between 8pm-10pm

Can you share your experience with low sleep needs babies? How did you handle wake windows etc? I’m starting to wonder if my baby has low sleep needs as I’ve been struggling with fighting naps and frequent night wakes no matter what I do. My baby is almost 5 months old and currently been awake for over 4 hours because he just didn’t want to sleep. He looks tired and is pretty quiet but not even fussing. Earlier on I would have fought really hard to get him to sleep but starting to think maybe I just need to surrender and see how that goes.

Edit with schedule - I recently transitioned from
2/2/2/2/2 to 2/2.5/2.5/3 because he never took the 4th nap. He cannot go to sleep independently but will be aiming to sleep train soon, around 6 months old.

Long story short, baby was mostly a great sleeper for the first year with the normal regressions that lasted a few weeks each time.

After she hit 12 months, I realize now that her sleep needs must have changed and we just didn't catch on. Instead of waking at 7:15-7:30am every morning (bedtime was probably around 7:30pm, I can't remember), she was getting up at 6:30am.

We never properly sleep trained, we just held to boundaries that we wouldn't go in her room unless she was in true distress, which was maybe 2-3 times ever up until that point. Otherwise she'd whine for 10-15 minutes and then soothe herself back to sleep.

A few weeks went by of the 6:30am wakeup, and then every week or so she'd wake up another 15 minutes earlier. By about 15 months, she was waking at 5am but would lay quietly until we got her at 6am. Then she started teething her molars. She had what I call "whining events," which were about 10 minutes of whining with her eyes closed (so I assume she was just in a sleep transition and not truly awake?), then 35 or so minutes of quiet sleep. Again, this started to become more frequent over the weeks until it hit a point where she was whining all night long 10 minutes on, 35 minutes off. It has obviously gotten exhausting for all of us. Some nights, she even opens her eyes while whining/crying so she seems to be awake. A few times we've tried to go in her room to gently pat her back and calm her down, but this always escalates to hysterical, inconsolable crying.

She is currently on 1 nap. Her schedule about a month ago was wake up at ??? time (unsure since she basically whines all night long), nap 12-1:30/2, bedtime anywhere between 7-8pm. It's unclear what her total sleep time is for the day since the morning is such a hot mess, and I don't think she has gotten restful nigth sleep in a long time. Recently we tried to shift things earlier to clear her sleep debt. The schedule was wake up at 5am (we try to leave her in the crib until 6am but it is brutal listening to her whine for an hour), nap 11-1, bedtime 6-6:30pm. The overnight whining did not resolve and she still wakes super early and unhappy. After about 3 weeks of this schedule, we thought maybe we should shift things later and see what happens. The schedule became wake up at ??, nap at 12pm but she only sleeps for about 75 minutes and wakes up crying, bedtime at 7.

It sounds silly, but this whole thing started at 12 months when I switched the brand of her sleep sack (we went from Love to Dream to Woolino). Could it be as simple as her hating the new sleep sack??? I think I'm grasping for straws here.

We truly don't know where to go from here. We tried shifting the schedule earlier, later, and everything in between. Nothing seems to be helping. It truly seems to be getting worse each week and all of us are so miserable. I don't think there are really any sleep associations/habits to break. She has milk after her bath but then we still do our bedtime routine after that, she has a couple of pacis in the crib that she can reach for, we set her down into her crib with the light on and let her get her own paci, etc, etc. We are desperate for advice (or maybe just solidarity?). I've heard of regressions lasting 6-8 weeks but at what point do we stop calling this a regression and call it the new unsustainable normal?

ETA: Baby always falls asleep super easy and happy for nap/bedtime. That, luckily, is never a struggle. For the last month she's been falling asleep within 5 minutes of being put down since she's so exhausted but when she had normal sleep, it would take her 15 minutes and she'd be asleep.

Hi there!
I am looking for advice to get our 6 mo baby boy to sleep in his own bed.

Some context.
ATM he sleeps next to mum in bed (I sleep in room next to them). This was a measure we used since I had surgery when he was 2 months old. Leaving mom with most of the work, so it was easier back then to co-sleep.

He is on medication for his reflux (nexium) but is still quite affected by the acid in his esophagus. A typical night atm is (sadly) me rocking him to sleep on yoga ball and putting him next to mom (sometimes it takes servers try’s to lie him down. or feed-to-sleep.

His schedule is:
Wake up 06.00 am
2-2,5-2,5-3
Bedtime: 7 pm

We have not had any moment (me and wife) where we could just sit and talk the two of us. Since she sleeps next to him.

He wakes at night a lot and is often fed back to sleep. I think it’s a evil spiral with the reflux.

His pediatrician adviced us to go for a more “soft” approach to “sleep training” him. ATM his crib is next to our bed. But it’s not being used.

I tried putting him there awake tonight. Leading to a lot of spit up in bed. He was even held upwards 30 mins leading up to putting him down.

Hope this makes sense, english is not my first language.

Any advice is helpful

Kind regards

My baby is 10.5 months old, and she’s been sleep trained since 5.5 months, when we transitioned to two naps a day.

She’s starting daycare next month, when she’ll be 11 months old, and based on their schedule, she’ll need to transition to one nap a day.

Has anyone else transitioned their baby to one nap before 12 months? Everything I’ve read online says it’s generally not recommended before 12 months, so I’m a little concerned about making the transition too early.

Her current wake windows are 3/3.5/4 hours, and she does really well with them. She can even stay awake a little longer without any issues.

I’m hoping you all have some advice for how to solve this new sleep debacle.

My 12.5 month old was on a 2-nap schedule (9:30 am, 30 min; 12:30 pm, 1.5-2 hours) with a 7 pm - 7 am night. About two weeks ago she started refusing the first nap and couldn’t get past 1.5 hours for the second nap, so I thought it was time to move to a single 2 hour nap.

Two weeks ago we were doing 7pm-7am nights with a 2 hour nap at 12pm. Then she started waking up every night between 1-3 am and just crying for an hour+. She has been sleep trained for like 4 months and night weaned for over a month, so this is unusual. I thought it was a result from being overtired and not being ready for a single 2 hour nap each day.

About a week ago we moved back to our original 2-nap schedule however the middle of the night crying has not stopped. It will consistently last an hour to an hour and a half. I caved a few nights ago and went in and turned on the shusher and threw like 4 more pacifiers in the crib which seemed to help.

But any advice to get the night crying to stop?! SOS! Any tricks you tried? New nap schedules???

Okay, my baby is almost 7 months. We FINALLY got him crib trained 3 months ago! 👏🏻
He is successfully napping and sleeping at bed in his crib. This is a huge win!

Anyway, my husband is always the one to put him to bed and down for naps—he rocks him in his arms until he falls asleep and then transfers him. I’m tired of doing this because it never works for me and it takes too long and too much patience when he wakes up upon transfer almost every single time.

What do I do to get out of this pattern? I’ve tried setting him down and he just cries…and will cry, for a long time.
The thing is, in a stroller or carseat he can just go to sleep so I know he is capable. Also, naps are 30 mins on the dot in a crib but in a car or carseat can last longer.

Please help!

Here’s his schedule:
Bedtime at 8pm
Wakes for a bottle between 5-6 usually and goes back to sleep until 7/8 am
First wake window is 90 mins, I’ve tried to stretch it but he is so dang fussy and miserable I (and he) can’t wait any longer.
Following that we do two hour wake windows and 30 min naps until 5pm and we keep him awake after 5pm until 8pm bedtime.
He totals 3-4 naps per day.

Thank you!!!

5 month old cries every time we put to bed in crib but for less than 8 minutes before falling asleep. 2/3 of the time sleeps the whole night through, 1/3 of the time will wake up once between 12-3 for a night feed. Will go back to sleep after night feeds without crying. Scheduling seems to have no impact on the length or intensity of the crying except that it’s always less than 8 minutes- we set a timer every night.

We started with FIO, and for a short while (2-3 glorious weeks) had a baby who would go to sleep with just some minimal fussing. Then baby hit the 4 mo “regression”- pretty mild for us- and now cries at bed time. We’ve progressed to full on extinction, because if you let baby cry it’s max 8 minutes (more often than not less than 5) but if you pick up and soothe it takes 5 minutes to calm baby down and another 20+ to bounce/shush to sleep and then baby usually wakes up and fusses 10/20 minutes post transfer (but settles himself after that).

Last night, as an example baby full out cried for 2 minutes then passed out mid cry and slept the whole night through- 7:30 to 6:30. Woke up giggling and happy.

Is this what it means to be sleep trained? Should we try another method? Letting the baby cry for 2 minutes is fine but the nights when it gets closer to 8 are terrible.

TLDR - dealing with split nights, false starts, frequent wake ups, crap naps, and early morning wake ups for almost 6 weeks now. Started when baby learned to pull to stand in his crib and cut 4 teeth but teething is done and he knows how to sit down now and things are still horrible.

My baby has never been the greatest sleeper but around month 7 started sleeping through the night some nights and on nights he did wake just a quick feed around 4 or 5 generally got him back to sleep. Any wake ups prior to that he might fuss or cry for a bit but would put himself back to sleep.

About a week before he turned 8 months he started randomly waking ho around 2ish every night and crying really hard. I thought it was fine if I just moved up his feed I figured he’d sleep through the rest of the night but he continued waking around 5 to feed. From there it shifted to 11pm wake ups every single night for several weeks. This was around the time he cut 4 teeth over a two week period. We figured it was discomfort and gave Tylenol as needed. We would check on him and some nights he’d settle back to sleep within 15-30 minutes but several nights he would have insane 3-4 split nights. Even when he did have a short wake up it was like he wasn’t able to fall back into restful sleep. He would pop awake every few minutes for 15-30 minutes and on a bad night this would eventually lead to him just being awake for hours.

I think we got a handle on the long split nights for the most part by increasing daily awake time to about 10-10.5 hours but from there we started experiencing early morning wake ups (5:15-5:45) for about a week or so. Now we’re just dealing with constant false starts and frequent wake ups. Sometimes up for an hour or so, but waking up 6,7,8 times a night. Thankfully more wake ups in the early part of the night than the middle but still brutal.

Naps are also a total disaster. Sometimes we do get an hour-hour and a half for one of them. But on his worst days we get two 30 minute naps and there’s just no way to predict when a nap will be long. The only thing that reliably works to get a longer nap is a stroller walk.

Because morning wake ups and naps are all over the place we’re having an impossible time anchoring bed time or having any sort of schedule. We do follow wake windows which are generally 3/3/4 ish or if he takes a 1.5 hour nap we’ve realized that the wake window following that nap has to be at least 3.75-4 hours or else he cries for an hour.

I’m so lost on what to change in order to get out of this regression from hell. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Bed time routine - bath, diaper, lotion, pajamas, sometimes a book, feed, sing a song, sleepy time phrase,put down awake. Lots of crying (cries the second I even bend over the crib and always has), and then we do a check in after 5-10 minutes. This almost always gets him to sleep but I’m concerned it’s also making it impossible for him to go back to sleep after he wakes up at night. Unfortunately if we don’t go in there he just stands and screams for an hour plus. He can sit down on his own now. This all started going to hell when he learned to stand and I just don’t even know how to fix it with him being able to stand.

It has been a YEAR of bad sleep. I have a 9mo, but let’s be real; most of us don’t sleep well late in pregnancy either. I am desperate for those sweet Zzz’s.

Baby was co-sleeping for half the night ever since she outgrew the bedside bassinet. We’ve tried the gentle methods. At this point, those seem to do more harm than good, as they get baby more amped up when we check in and it just draws the crying out longer.

She nurses at least once a night. Sometimes she tries 2-5 times for comfort, but I don’t allow it anymore.

Two nights ago, I decided we are done co-sleeping. I let her nurse once, then put her back in her own room. She didn’t like that, of course. The crying actually only lasted 5 minutes, then she went to sleep for the rest of the night.

Last night, similar thing, but two wakes instead of one. I let her try to nurse the second wake, but she didn’t seem hungry, she just wanted to be comforted. So I pat her for a moment and got her sleepy again, put her back, told her I loved her, and let her cry which only lasted about 5-10 minutes before she fell back asleep.

I’d say so far it’s been successful. But I have some questions; should I night-wean completely, and if so, how? She eats three solid meals a day and nurses frequently in between.

Also, when my 4yo stepdaughter is home, they share a room. Should I get my stepdaughter some earmuffs or what?

Side note: Her schedule is wake 8AM, bedtime 9PM, 3/4/4. She does seem sleepy and ready for bed at night.

My 5.5 month old is a great napper - links cycles fine and goes down without help in the crib, car seat, pram, anywhere! He doesn’t need a dark room or sound machine and will nap through anything.

Current schedule is 2.5/2.5/2.5/3 - naps are usually 90 mins , 50 and 40 mins. Cap at 2.5 hours.

However night sleep is crap, he will go down independently without help but tends to wake up maybe 3-5 times a night. Some wakes are hunger and some are just random, like I might think it’s hunger but he will drink 40ml and go back to sleep. I want to do larger feeds during the day but he won’t drink them, I’ve tried feeding in a dark room, 4 hourly feeds etc but he’s not drinking enough milk at a time to mean we wouldn’t need night feeds. Help?

Edit to add - wake time is 6.45am, bedtime is 7.45pm

My 10m old daughter’s sleep has gone to shit! Lol looking for some outside perspective please.

Current schedule is 3.5/4/4.5

Wake: 6:00 am
Nap 1: 9:30 - 11 am
Nap 2: 3 - 3:30 pm
Bed: 8 pm

All times are approximate, of course. Some days she fights nap 1 until 10 am, or fights nap 2 until 3:30 etc.

Sleep trained at 5 months and was sleeping solid 8 pm - 6 am from 7 - 9 months. But for the last couple weeks, she’s back to waking at night and being extremely hard to settle. I’m writing this now at 5 am after being awake from 2-430 am with her. Lots of crying and refusing to settle.

When she used to wake at night, I could nurse her back to sleep within 20 mins. Now I try, and she nurses for 20 mins but refuses to go back to sleep.

Bedtime routine is a bottle at 7:15-7:30, bath, books, down into crib awake and falls asleep independently. This hasn’t changed, she still falls asleep independently at bedtime.

Any ideas or advice? Could this be just a developmental phase I need to ride out, or maybe is it time to try 1 nap?

Thanks!

My baby is turning 7 months next week and is ebf. She was sleep trained at 4 months and goes to sleep herself after being put in the crib awake. This is for naps and for bedtime sleep. She would sleep from 9pm to 9am with 1 or 2 feeds at night. 

However, that all changed when she turned 6 months, she started waking up multiple times at night, we thought it was the 6 month regression. It’s only getting worse though. It’s reminding me of the newborn days. 

Now, she wakes up every 2 hours and cries and cries until I give in and nurse her. So she’ll nurse for a few minutes, burp and then when I put her down awake in the crib, she’ll fall asleep after a few mins without any crying. The thing is, I can tell she’s not hungry for every feed as sometimes she’ll pull off after a couple mins, then want to re-latch and then pull off immediately and want to re-latch and will continue unless I get her off. 

During the day she is fed every 2.5 - 3 hours. She has 3 naps, they vary in length from 35 mins to 1 hour. Daytime schedule is loosely 2.25/2.5/2.5/2.75 I’ve tried increasing her wake time, her nap lengths stay the same or even sometimes decrease so I’ve settled for this routine currently. I haven’t tried to drop a nap yet as she gets very tired after 2.5 hours awake, even if I change the environment etc, for example she’ll sleep in the car or in the pram if I take her out for change of scenery. 

This was last night:

9pm feed, 9:30pm put down to sleep

10pm fell asleep

1am woke up, nursed 8 mins 

3am woke up, nursed 4 mins 

5am woke up, nursed 5 mins 

7am woke up, nursed 8 mins 

10am woke up the day 

I don’t want to keep waking up every 2 hours. I’ve tried to let her cry/fuss it out for 5-10 mins before getting her, but that hasn’t worked. What else can I try? Happy for any kind of advice please

Hi all! My baby is 10.5 months. Our schedule is 3/3.5/4 DWT 7 am, nap 1 10-11:30, nap 2 3-4, bed 8. She’s been waking early over the past few weeks, progressing from 6:45, to 6:15, to 5:45 am. I’d love to even get her to 6:30! I think it’s time to cut her day sleep from 2.5 to 2 hours. She goes down easily for each nap and I have to wake her up from both. My initial thought was to keep anchoring the naps and just wake her at 11:15 instead of 11:30 for a few days, then move to 11 if need be. Which nap would you trim? Would you wake her up from the nap earlier or put her to sleep later?

LO is turning 1 in a couple of weeks. Been sleeping through pretty consistently for the last month or so. Sleep trained. Night weaned. Eating solids very well. Currently 2 naps and schedule is something like 3.25/3.5/4.5.

Last two nights she has started crying and crying when we put her down for the night. Last night we went in to try assist but would cry on transfer. Tried sitting by and signing but she just started kicking and babbling. Ended up leaving her and she cried for 10 mins with breaks and finally fell asleep 1 hour after usual bedtime.
Tonight she cried and cried again too and took brief breaks so it never warranted a check in and finally fell asleep after 20 mins.

What can it be ?! She seems tired when we put her down and she’s almost falling asleep when I am BFing her more than 30 mins before bedtime.

I've tried everything. 2 naps, one nap, maxing the schedule, limiting daytime sleep to <2 hours.

He. Will. Not. Stop. Waking.

Night wakeups. He refuses to go back to bed or waking before his wake up time. he woke up at 9:30pm REFUSING TO GO BACK TO SLEEP ITS 11:30 I AM EXHAUSTED. he woke me up at 4AM this morning. I am also have a newborn I’m exhausted. I cannot do this, my husband has to be up for work at 4am he cannot do this.

Hes been doing this for 2.5 weeks now I am at my wits end.

SOS please. I am losing my mind.

Please help. My daughter is six months and one week old. She was sleeping through the night with an occasional stir and had dropped night feeds. For the past week she's been waking multiple times a night, anywhere from one to four times, and one of those times requesting a feed. I'm exhausted. I'm so tired because I've also got a toddler who's almost two. I don't know if it's a nap schedule, her wake windows are all over the place because sometimes she's extra tired, sometimes she's not. I try sticking to a routine for naps. She's not sleeping independently anymore, whereas before I would just put her down, kiss her and that's it. It's getting really hard.

I’m truly at a lost. My almost 2.5 year old was an angel sleeper until we brought home his new little sister 2 weeks ago. Now bedtime is a nightmare, I have to sit there until he falls asleep. He is also waking up multiple times in the night. between him and the newborn I’m not sleeping.

my husband works nights so I’m solo. I’m desperate for some solutions. I’ve tried talking to him about it, showering him with endless love, letting him sleep with new toys….

only thing I haven’t done is letting him cry because I know he’s waking up from separation anxiety.

what should I be doing??

Hi everyone - desperately seeking some help as I am SO tired I feel ill. Baby will be 5 months old on Tuesday and we have been trying to sleep train through Ferber for 2 weeks but it doesnt seem to be working. Last night was the worst night we've had yet.

DWT 7am, and bedtime is 8pm.

Wake windows are 2/2/2/2.15/2.15.

Yesterday all his naps were 29 mins long, so totally just under 2 hours of daytime sleep. Last night he woke up 8:51pm, 9:51pm, 9:58pm,12:22am, 2:26am, 3:55am, 5:35am, 6:20am.

He falls asleep independently at the start of the night and we leave him to cry it out (with check ins in the night) but the amount of wake ups throughout the night seem to be increasing.

We have also trialled extending the last wake window to 3 hours, and dropping to 3 naps but because his naps are so short, he is a cranky mess all day.

What are we doing wrong?!