Babies Waking Every Two Hours Wreck the Whole Night

“Hi, my 12 week old is still feeding every 1-1.5 hours, I've checked too, I use the Huckleberry app and she feeds every 1.5 hours during the day on the dot. I think its because she does sleep through the night (from 10pm-4am) All the texts I've read says she should be eating every 2-3, I know every baby is different, but has anyone else had this experience? Did the length of time extend eventually? My boobs aren't filling up fast enough and by the end of the night, they're tapped”

“Hi everyone. I feel a bit alone and wanted to ask a few questions. Baby is 1w + 4 days. I’ve been exclusively breast feeding up until now, but I would like my husband to take the night shift more. Obviously, if I’m breastfeeding, he can’t fully take it himself. I have been reading about pumping and found contradicting timepoints of when it is ok to start pumping/feeding from a bottle. My plan would be to only bottle feed at night, but is it too early? I have some articles saying about waiting ti”

“Hey, 30m with our first child. I thought I was anxious during the pregnancy but turns out having a newborn is a whole new level of anxiety 😥 Does anyone else get scared of falling asleep while feeding at night? My wife breastfeeds, and I usually take 1 or 2 feeds a night depending on how much is pumped. My wife feeds exclusively in bed at night as its the safest, but I find it super hard to feed with a bottle lying down. I am super afraid of falling asleep and Ive had a few close calls. Any tri”

“How long will this last for? Is this developmentally normal? FTM. My 12 week old feeds every 30-45 minutes from 8-11 pm. This has been going on since maybe 8 weeks or so once he had started getting some sort of circadian rhythm. submitted by /u/Extension_Dog9366 [link] [comments]”

“My little guy has been sleeping 7-8 hours a night. We put him down at 8pm and he doesn’t eat again until 3-4am. By 1am I am so full I can’t comfortably sleep. I don’t want to pump and create an oversupply so I’ve just been pumping an ounce or 2 to relieve the pain. Then after he eats I wake up at 6am uncomfortably full again. Does anyone have an advice so I can sleep as much as my baby does? submitted by /u/kacie05 [link] [comments]”

“My baby has been hungry consistently every two hours all the sudden, when it used to be 3. It’s like 2 hours on the dot, every time, morning and night. I mostly pump/bottle feed, occasionally put her on the breast with a shield (she doesn’t get enough from the breast so I have to supplement with a bottle). I feed her 3-4oz every time, usually 4. Is she eating too much? When does this settle down? I’m not sleeping basically at all… submitted by /u/Icy_Indication9716 [link] [comm”

“My 2 week old has been on my breast all day today and entire last night. He slept a total of 30 mins today on and off. It's taking a big toll on my mental and physical health because he seems constantly hungry and I feel like a failure for not being able to feed my baby. If he settles after feeds it only lasts very shortly and then he's on the boob again. He had a smaller birth weight so from the start I've been supplementing with a bottle of my pumped milk few times a day since it w”

“So second baby after 13 years and this one I’m doing strictly breast milk I pump exclusively so that dad can feed the baby too (it’s his first baby and he’s home with me so he tries to help) so my question is when you Guys time your feedings do you start from when you start feeding the baby or when the baby finishes eating? I’ve seen many different opinions on this I’ve also seen that some people use an app to time feedings. I guess I just want opinions on this I’ve seen some people say when the”

“My 5 month old slept for a 6 hour stretch (unusual), and my breasts were engorged when he woke to feed. I guess he ate more than usual? When I laid him back to sleep, he was on his back and projectile vomited + choked on it. There was so much. I’m so afraid, I never saw anything like it. Also, his diaper was not that heavy compared to other overnight diapers. Has anyone experienced this before? Please advise. The only difference is that he ate egg yolks and avocados earlier in the day. Not sure”

“How did you guys deal with sleep regression ? 😭 My boy is 3 months old in a couple of days and is only sleeping 14 hours in a 24-hour period. This started happening about a week ago. I feel bad because he just cries when he’s bored or wants to be held. He screams at any activity like tummy time, stretching, or just practicing the usual baby stuff. I’m going insane being inside the house all the time. I want to just leave without the baby, but I don’t have money to spend on myself leisurely. My”

“Hello everyone. Since my kid turned 1 year old she's been waking up 2 or 3 times at night, almost always at 2am and 5am, sometimes one more time in between those hours. Now she is 14 months old and she only wants me to pick her up when she wakes up, not even wants mom to pick her up. The doctor says it doesn't seem like a medical thing but its getting exhausting to get up 3 times at night and then go to work 5 times a week. Is this a phase or something? Should I trust that it will pass i”

“Does anyone else experience that their baby is still hungry after feeding for 20-30mins ? I’ll switch boobs or feed on my dominant side and my son will still be hungry when I take him off after those times. It’s not all the time but sometime ill have to feed him on my boob for over the 30mins submitted by /u/Seenbyan_gelle [link] [comments]”

“I have a 3 month old and he’s EBF and my husband usually puts him to sleep for the night, however, lately, our LO has been getting super fussy with him and gets to the point of screaming, which doesn’t happen when he puts him down for a nap. I usually give him like 20 minutes but then when he starts screaming I intervene and take the baby and he immediately stops and falls asleep quickly. I feel so bad because my husband tries everything to soothe him and really wants to do the nighttime routine”

“Since I’ve had a baby (who’s about a year old), I haven’t slept through the night. Hunger or teething keep me up. He started daycare 3 months ago, so adding sickness into the mix too. We divide up care, drop offs, home errands pretty evenly. But with our work schedules, we don’t have any time to work out. I do cook pretty often, healthy stuff as I enjoy it. But other than that, there’s no going to classes or using our home gym. If I do have free time, I nap or run errands (I need 8 hours of slee”

“LO is 2 weeks old, and I’ve had a few odd days of cluster feeding which has been a lot but I know is normal/something to power through on. Today was different though - usually as soon as he’s on the boob he relaxes and feeds but today he got himself so worked up that he just couldn‘t latch on to me, he kept shaking his head and screaming. My partner eventually got a bottle instead so we could at least calm him down/feed him and try again to latch, and even that didn’t work straight away and he w”

“Baby is 3 weeks old and nursing is going well after some initial challenges with being overly sleepy! She was born 9lb 3oz and is already at 10lb even from EBF. She is a sleeeepy girl so we’ve always had to wake her to feed, especially at night. Pediatrician said we need to keep waking her, at minimum every 4 hours at night to keep weight gain going strong. (No other medical reason for this, just to keep up the good work basically). Problem is, she’s still sooo sleepy I feel like I’m fighting wi”

“Hi everyone, how on earth are you guys preventing the absolute meltdown when baby wants a bottle at night? My son is 3 months as of this week, and hes definitely a fussy guy since day 1. He is very 0 to 100, and if you dont meet his needs fast at any moment, he gets upset very quickly. Anyways, I always hear that i should "let him fuss/talk/grunt" for a few minutes at night because he could just put himself back to sleep or just be talking to himself. So ive been working on not jumping”

“10 month old here, still wakes up every 2/3 hours in the night. EBF I'm still feeding him twice in the night and he seems to be taking a lot so I assume he still needs the feeds in the night. Other than that he will just wake up screaming until I intervene and help him to get back to sleep. Any tips? What worked for you? submitted by /u/Ok-Entrance1086 [link] [comments]”

“My sons appetite has been ass, he doesn't wanna eat his usual, just surviving off milk yogurt oatmeal and snacks sometimes now submitted by /u/moody_girly2024 [link] [comments]”

“My almost 8 month old is not anywhere near "sleeping through the night". A really good night is 2 wakes. Last week I made the mistake of bragging (honestly just expressing excited disbelief to a group of mom friends) about how he had a full night with no wakes...Karma laughed my ass right out the door on that one. Turns out he had the cold from hell coming. We're crawling through each sleep night by night at this point. Our guy needs help to sleep at night and that's okay. Am I”

“I 32F, while BF my toddler always wonder what all I can achieve if I was not BF at the moment. Also, my baby is a EBF since she is born, now she is 1 YO so the frequency and time taken to feed has reduced but still, whenever I sit to feed her, I start thinking about what all chores/other work I could achieve if not BF. How I feel guilty of the times I have wasted when I was not BF and also not utilizing my time productively then, lol. I do not regret using that time for my baby but its just such”

“I’ve taken over one of the night feeds so my wife can get a decent stretch of sleep, and I’m slowly realizing that warming a bottle while the baby is already screaming is one of the worst parts of the shift. Baby wakes up already furious, I’m stumbling into the kitchen half asleep, and those few minutes waiting for the bottle feel like twenty. I’ve seen portable bottle warmers, but I can’t tell if they’re actually useful or just another baby gadget we’ll use twice. What are you guys doing for bo”

“How did you night wean? The crying has ME crying lol. 1 year old is waking up like 3 times a night to nurse for comfort submitted by /u/mothermonarch [link] [comments]”

“We recently just found out I’m pregnant with our second, and my daughter is 8 months. I had originally planned to let her (semi) self ween, but now that I’ll have another baby to feed, I’m wanting to transition her towards solids sooner. I know she’s only 8 months right now, but she usually has about 2 puréed “meals” a day. She had a breakfast and a dinner, and then she has a few snacks throughout the day. I haven’t been feeding her for nutrition, necessarily, but to get her used to eating thing”

“What age did your bf baby sleep through the night if you breastfed until 2 and beyond? Did you have to night wean or did they do it automatically? submitted by /u/sleepyjean2024 [link] [comments]”

“My nipples hurt! FTM to 14m baby. He is comfort feeding all night switching from side to side. I can’t do this anymore. Please give me tips to stop this ASAP submitted by /u/hello-12-bye-34 [link] [comments]”

“My son used to go to bed around 10ish until a couple months ago (he’s 13 months now), it wasn’t perfect but it wasn’t terrible. I’m sure this aligned with other milestones and regressions but after time change he went from an 8 pm bedtime to 10ish and now it’s midnight. It doesn’t seem to matter how much we limit it naps, when we cut him off etc. And then when he goes to bed at an age appropriate time for him he wakes up at 2/3 in the morning ready to go and is up for hours. submitted by &”

“What has worked for you? We’ve : played with him until exhaustion. Reduce play closer to evenings. Based him sooner to read with him. Bathe him later to put him into bed right after. Less milk before before. More milk. No food so close to bedtime. Later dinners closer to bed time. White noise. Brown noise. Boys Noize. Crying aloud beside him. Sobbing softly. Still wakes up around 2-3am like clockwork. submitted by /u/dingdongbannu88 [link] [comments]”

“Ok so FTM here! Context: Baby boy born 33 w 6 d, NICU stay for about 1.5 months, home now for about a month. Ok so I’m really struggling here as a FTM to a preemie baby and learning how to feed and keep weight maintained. Baby boy was born really early and was a emergency c-section, luckily my milk had slightly come in before he was born ( tiny bit of leakage) so after the c-section I was able to pump. He was way too little to try and breastfeed so that was really my only option. I had a pretty”

“Bit of a back story, this is my second child. My first was so easy to slowly transition off. It wasn’t really planned and just worked “naturally” as we adjusted to the new routines with daycare, new sleep patterns, etc. We had one night where he bit my nipples too often, too hard and I decided that that is it. We did one more session the following night, just because I didn’t want that painful night be the last memory of it and that was it. The next two nights when he wanted the boob, I held my”

“Hello! My baby was born at 33% for weight and now at 6 months is 98%, currently doing 1-2 full feeds and 1-2 comfort feeds between 10pm and 8:30am. I understand that this is biologically normal for her age, especially with all the distracted daytime feeds. We offer solids 1-2 times a day and she does well on those too. Overall she seems to like to eat. Pediatrician however thinks she is gaining weight too quickly and recommended that we night wean. This doesn’t sit right with me, especially as b”

“My baby is 11 months so I can see the finish line! I don’t mind nursing past her birthday… I’m really not sure what my plans are for weaning. HOWEVER, the MOTN feed has got soooo old. My baby did not STTN until 6ish months and she did it literally once. While working with a sleep consultant, we improved things drastically — down to the one feed most nights. She’s gone through some phases of sleeping through & then needing the feed again. I did some “light night weaning” where I held the baby”

“Hi all, Today our LO turned 8 weeks and the past 10 days have been really hard. Lots of feeding (or too little feeding), reflux (maybe), digestion issues, refuses to sleep with me (dad) though he did in the past, hard to put in his crib, and has much shorter naps. We also had a crazy day at the beginning of week 7 were he was inconsolable for the whole day (that day he was clearly in a lot of pain, and we ended up calling our family doctor, and gave him paracetamol). Since that day I have been s”

“I’m really upset to write this because I was hoping to make it to a year of breastfeeding. My LO (5 months) is waking every 45 mins to feed at night. Often her naps are her latched to me the whole time or on and off for majority of the nap. I am constantly overheated. I’m around 68kg/150 pounds which is 5 kg above my pre pregnancy weight so I don’t think it’s due to that, I think it’s the breastfeeding hormones. It’s been heatwave after heatwave in the UK which doesn’t help. I get hot flashes wh”

“FTM here. Currently writing this at 3 am. I'm so tired. My son turns 1 next week and is still waking up at least (if I'm lucky bc it's usually 3/4 times) once a night and won't go to sleep unless he nurses. His naps are good: he will sleep in his crib by himself for about 1-2 hours, depending. And We will randomly have days where he will sleep for about 9-10 hours but that doesn't last long. He has always been in the 99 percentile for height and weight so I know he doesn'”

“Hi everyone. I’m a FTM to a little boy who is just a few days shy of 4 months old. I’ve been lucky that for the past few weeks, he has been sleeping through the night or waking up only once to feed, so I can go sometimes up to 10 hours without feeding him. Shortly after that started though, I have been feeling absolutely terrible. I’m exhausted even though I’ve been sleeping great. I’m very sensitive and feel a lot of rage. I also sometimes have cramps like my period is returning, but it hasn’t”

“I always wondered want people meant when they say their 2 week old sleeps like night. I think after about 3-4 weeks my baby start "sleeping through the night" but I realized we may have different definitions. When I said that I meant they fell asleep at like 1 Am woke up a few times just for feedings. And as soon as they finished went right back to sleep and so did I. The process takes about 5 minutes so I don't consider it an awakening. I think of awakening as having to put baby b”

“Does anyone has a baby that doesn't feed when he wakes up in the morning? Last feed 3am, wake up 6am, first feed around 7-8am. I find it odds, he's 2'months old and feeds very little through the day. He's gaining weight. But I'm afraid in the long run submitted by /u/eumama [link] [comments]”

“I need some outside perspective because I am so so tired. My spouse and I have a young baby who is still not sleeping through the night. My partner is back to work after having several months off. I am still home, and we have two other kids (they’re older but still need me to an extent, and it’s summertime). I have not slept more than 4 hours at a time in about 5 months. Well longer, because the end of the pregnancy was so terrible and awful. My partner refuses to sleep in a different room to be”

“Hi everyone, I have 5 month old twins who have not been sleep trained yet. They sleep around 8pm-8:30pm. They're good boys and will give us a good stretch of sleep. However recently one of my twins (I think from the 4 month regression) have been waking up at midnight and 2am. At 2am he won't go back down until fed. He'll take around 2-3oz. Then at 4:30am they both wake up again to feed another 4-5oz. Then 7:00am is usually our wake up time. My question is how do I get rid of the 2am”

“It's currently 3am, I'm up with the newborn and I got the munchies. Best I had was some Trader Joe's dried mango with chili powder. I would have preferred a cookie though 🤔 What's y'all's go to snack in this situation? submitted by /u/don_the_spubber [link] [comments]”

“My toddler was looking very skinny as of late and I alluded it to how much we were breastfeeding. (All night, all morning and pretty much whenever she wanted) Some weeks she'd eat solids good and some days hardly eat. I decided it was best to wean her to get more solids in and it's working! It's a tiresome process, but it is working. However, she'll wake in the middle of the night, and ask for boob, so I'll give it after saying no a few times. We rent, and don't want to w”

“My baby is 2 months (9 weeks) old. He's ebf mostly. 1 bottle of formula now and then. In the early days he slept well in his bassinet but since around 3 weeks it stopped and he wakes up when we transfer him. It seems that his sleep has gotten worse. When he's held he can sleep for 2-3 hours before waking up and asking to nurse. When I put him down even if its right next to me on bed, he sleeps for 1 hour before waking up. 2 max. Usually when he wakes up he didn't always need to nurse”

“He's not in pain, he's not hungry (I fed him 4oz 15 minutes ago), and he's got a clean diaper. He just doesn't like to sleep, so he cries. Constantly. And nothing is helping. I've tried: Rocking him Snuggling him (he just lays on my chest and cries) Warm bath Walking him up & down hallway Shushing him Humming to him White noise machine Dark room He's fine during the day and overnight, but after 8PM (it's 12:15AM), he just cries until he can fall asleep. But gettin”

“My babe has been going through a massive regression. Will be 8 months old in a couple days, has been refusing solids for the entire month (so back to just milk), wakes more and more frequently at night. It’s at the point where it’s 50ish minutes between wakes. My supply is also starting to tank and it doesn’t seem to be recovering so I’m using up my freezer stash fast. Tonight I put him down before the 2 hour mark he’d already woken up twice. Barely enough time for me to eat dinner and get stuff”

“I’m an exclusively pumping (EP) mom to a 12-week-old, and from the beginning I was told he needed to be fed every 2–2.5 hours, with a maximum stretch of 3 hours. So I’ve always been waking him overnight for bottles. He usually drinks them without much fuss. Over the past week or so, though, he seems genuinely irritated when I wake him. The confusing part is that he still only takes about 2.5–3 oz per feed, even overnight. If I stop waking him and let him sleep longer, won’t he end up taking fewe”

“Little one is just over 2 months old. She has always been a highly alert FOMO baby, wide eyed and all. She even has wrinkles on her forehead from it😂 She never was much of a sleeper in the day. She would sleep a total of 1 hour over 12 hours, now matter how hard we try. She takes micro naps sometimes, but she always wakes up after 30 mins like clockwork. We've tried everything from music, contact naps, setting the environment. She will NEVER sleep when put down while awake, just cries. But”

“My baby is 2.5 weeks old, and I think her days and nights are completely mixed up. I know she's still extremely young, but since we took her home we've been lucky to get her to do a single 2 hours stretch at night. If she goes down in her bassinet it's for maybe 30 min. During the day though, she will take 2-3 hour naps in her bassinet the entire day with no issues. Some things we've done to try to help her figure out her days and nights are having it loud and bright during the d”

“I’m drowning 😩 Traveling alone with the baby and it started during adjusting to new time zone. She’s up every 1-2 h. submitted by /u/willbrucla [link] [comments]”

“I have a 5 mo old baby who hit her 4 mo regression hard 7 weeks ago. She has always had a strong feed to sleep association but she’s gotten into reverse cycling and wants to eat every 45 min through the night. Because of this I’m stopping feeding to sleep for bed (bedtime takes 3 hours now) and I hold out 4-5 hours after bedtime feed for her to eat then let her eat when she wants after that (advice from lactation consultant). In the days I’ve been trying to feed away from naps as well but she wi”

“Hi everyone, I'm about 9 days into my breastfeeding/parent journey. She is pretty good at latching at first and has been feeding around 15-30 min. I struggle most times to get her to take the other boob but sometimes she will. When im so exhausted at night, it's hard to try to "force her" when she seems content. Her weight gain was good at first ped appt and she has been producing adequate wet/dirty diapers. Just looking for other peoples experiences. thanks submitted by”

“Hi everyone, I don't know if I need an advice or just want to vent. I still breastfeed my 12 months old baby on demand. He is still waking up at night and sometimes sleeps with me. Sometimes he wants to eat normal food but sometimes he just cries until I give him the breast. And I am honestly sick of it. I got back to work two days ago and have had a first long day of 9 working hours. My husband and he survived the day without any problems. I pumped, so he got the bottle. But when I'm ho”

“I’m currently nearing 3 weeks postpartum, and it seems that I’m geared more towards an oversupply. What I’m really struggling with right now is nights. We’ve been very lucky: so far, LO usually gives us two stretches of 3-4 hours of sleep at night, interrupted by one ~45minute wakeup. I feed baby before putting him into the crib for his first longer stretch of night sleep, then I pump a bit - just until the breast is “3/4 empty” (I don’t want to empty completely, since I’m trying to get the supp”

“Hello! My son is 13 months old. I still breastfeed him but he's finally super into food and loves to eat, which is a huge win! However, over the past month, a couple of not-so-great developments have happened. 1. He has gone from 1 night wake to 3 night wakes. This is absolutely demolishing my husband and me lol. 2. He has become kind of a breastfeeding addict. I'm producing less milk, and he's not at all dependent on me for food at this point. But in the past, we've been able to”

“Baby is 3 months old. Just wondering when’s the best time to start weening him off the breast for my sake as well as more routine for him? I’ve been told it’s much easier to get a formula fed baby into a rhythm and my husband would like to be more hands on with him. submitted by /u/nosinned21 [link] [comments]”

“So my baby randomly slept through the night last night from 6:45pm to about 6:15 this morning. Naturally, I woke up VERY full. I was curious, so I weighed myself before and after feeding her and showed .7lbs difference. That would be ELEVEN OUNCES which seems insane? I’m sure my bathroom scale is not particularly accurate but even assuming there’s a bit of margin of error it’s still a LOT. Do you think it’s possible that’s truly what she drank? She definitely nursed for longer than usual 😂 you”

“We have a 9 month old.... who is 95% breastfed. Which was easy during the night cos when she woke up hungry (and cranky) she could jus go on the boon and settle quite quickly... My wife temporarily cant breastfeed so we need to do bottles over night, either ebm or formula. There is obviously a from wake up to make the formula or heat the ebm....where LO is hysterical. What are some tips from people who bottle feed in the night. Either limit the time from wake up grouchy to when bottle is ready?”

“LO is almost 10 weeks old. Feeding on demand has served us well, as he is gaining weight appropriately. But, my god...it's every 60-90 minutes! Has anyone ever made the switch from on-demand feeding to something a litttttle more scheduled? submitted by /u/maspie_den [link] [comments]”

“i’m exclusively breastfeeding, but no 10 week old is so impatient at the boob, i’ll have my first let down then he’ll wiggle and worm and pop off. i try to latch him until i have a second letdown but sometimes i just switch sides. i dont feel my let downs, i just watch for when he starts swallowing. is switching so soon bad for my supply? he’s a chunky and healthy baby but somedays i feel so lost with breastfeeding lol submitted by /u/Charming-Cabinet-971 [link] [comments]”