Babies Waking All Night Exhausts the Whole House

“My ten month old daughter does not sleep. She hasn't slept through a night yet. She is up every 2 hours. She does not sit still. I don't know if she can't get comfortable or what, but nothing the wife and I do work. She is still nursing, so my wife will get her from the crib, feed her until she falls asleep, and put her back in the crib. Repeat every 1-2 hours. We can't live like this. How does this child have so much energy on 4-6 hours of sleep a night? Any advice is welcome. I”

“So! My baby will be 9 months old on the 11th and he’s sleeping pretty well at night lately, except now the last 2 ish weeks he sits up in his sleep and needs help laying back down. Do I just leave him to figure it out on his own??? And how long does this last?? Cause if he stops needing help to lay back down then he’ll be down to needing me like once per night which sounds so refreshing 🤣 Another question is about eating! Obviously BLW is very popular right now. And I’m sort of doing a mix of B”

“Hi my 8 month old started waking up at 6 am and there is no way to put her back dow, even an hour of rocking and singing isnt working. She goes to bed around 8:30-9 in the evening and used to wake up at 8, with 1 night feeding. I dont know why she switched it up suddenly. We bought new curtains and blinds, we paid off our neighbor to get rid of his rooster, we adjusted her daytime naps, but nothing. After 8 hpurs of sleep, she is wide awake. This also messes up her nap scedule. Any advice would”

“My 7 week old fusses if he is not contact napping or cosleeping. We also discovered his bassinet (Harppa) is tilted causing him to roll in his sleep which probably wakes him up which adds to our challenge. We are talking to their customer service about it. What are some tips and tricks that have helped y’all putting down your little ones for solo naps and nighttime sleepies? submitted by /u/Imaginary-Winner-335 [link] [comments]”

“We are first-time parents, and our daughter is currently 4 months old. We have gotten into some bad nighttime sleep habits and are now needing to break them. To put her to sleep, we typically have to rock her in our arms (standing) for up to an hour after she has had her bottle. We brought this up at the pediatrician looking for suggestions at how to break this, and it was suggested that we have to completely change her napping also. Currently, she contact naps during the day as I'm at home.”

“My boy has never been a great sleeper. Like, he coslept with me, at one point waking every 15 mins ALL. NIGHT. LONG. Then around 10.5 months, it kinda just clicked one day? (I think there may have been a little bit of sleep training mixed in there by my husband for a couple nights, I work nightshift). He then slept through the night, and if he did wake once or twice he would soothe himself back to sleep almost immediately. The past 2.5-3 weeks? there has been a huge regression. He wakes up absol”

“Every night it’s the same story: - Full feed, burping and gas stretches - Dim lights - Skin to skin cuddles - Fresh diaper - Warm sleep sack - Rocked to sleep in my arms - Gently laid into bassinet feet first, then head - Hand on her chest until I see her deep asleep 5 minutes later she’s screaming and will only calm down on my wife’s chest She’s not too much into pacifiers. White noise doesn’t seem to help much. Any tips from other dads? I know each baby is different, but really looking for new”

“Hi! mom here, but looking for advice for dad. our daughter is 10.5 months and I'm the one who's been putting her to sleep her whole life and I would like her dad to be able to do it as well so I can have a break. have any of you done this or transitioned into putting your baby to bed? when he tries she seems to cry and want me because that's what she's used to. any tips, tricks, or mindsets would be greatly appreciated!! submitted by /u/TeaCrumbs [link] [comment”

“our LG has slept through the night since she was 3 months old and has always self settled. This stopped around 20 months of age when she would start hysterically crying in her cot and wouldn’t go back to sleep so she’s been in with me and she is now 2. I have to lay with her for her to go to sleep. Tonight I have tried getting her back into her room in a toddler bed (we slept in there together for a few weeks), but tonight she was too busy poking her light up butterflies on the wall so I gave he”

“It’s been such a process to get baby (8 weeks on Wednesday) to fall asleep for daytime naps the last few weeks. However, just now, I picked her up after some play time when she was showing tired signs, put her on my chest, rubbed her back, and she just fell asleep. No rocking, no shushing, no feed to sleep, no paci… so easily with just a little back rub. Makes all the hard times feel so small and like I’m becoming more and more of her safe space 🥹❤️ submitted by /u/Dazzling-Nebula54”

“My baby is 9 weeks old and in the last few weeks seems to have become more attached to his paci to the point I think it disrupts his sleep at night (and during the day but night it worse). He is bottlefed breastmilk, I fed him from the breast for about two weeks only. The first half of the night is always fine. We give him a bottle and I started to give his paci afterwards cause he fusses so badly every time after eating and will barely burp until he’s relaxed. (He’s not actually hungry still; h”

“Hi! We’re having a little sleep dilemma over here. Baby is 7 months. Dad and I both take turns putting baby to sleep on different nights. However, there’s been a pattern of my way becoming ineffective after a while. I’ve noticed that whenever I tell dad what works for us, he doesn’t try it. But when dad tells me what works for them, I try it so it becomes the most used method so my way stops working. An example: I told dad slow pats mimic the womb and he likes that but dad continues to pat rapid”

“My baby wakes up at 4/5 am, I feed her and get her back to sleep but she wakes up immediately and starts fussing around until she cries. I go back to her room and try to get her back to sleep but she just keeps waking up. She can only sleep if my husband holds her for the rest of the time This has been happening for about a week now and it’s driving me insane. Any tips on what we might bw doing wrong? She has had bad naps these days as well, she’s just tired all the time from sleeping so poorly”

“Everyone told us if we could get the baby to fall asleep on her own she'd sleep through the night, so we did, and it worked, and she did!... Until she didn't. At 5.5 months she'd still fall asleep on her own but her ability to stay asleep for the night sleep completely vanished. We figured it was a regression but it got worse and worse and now we're at almost 9 months and our entire lives revolve around her sleep and it alone is depressing me. She still falls asleep on her own, a”

“My baby is 5 weeks and she only wants to contact nap with us even at night, so you can guess I don’t get any sleep at night this has been going on since she was 3 weeks old. I try to put her next to me on the bed but she wakes up. Anyone experienced the same? Advice? submitted by /u/Ok_Promise_2820 [link] [comments]”

“Looking for reassurance, advice, similar experiences. LO is 5.5 months old. He slept like a rockstar until about a month ago. He has always been in the bedside bassinet for nighttime sleep (crib for daytime naps). Around 4.5 months, I wouldn’t say he went through the full on sleep regression I hear about but his sleep definitely changed. He became a lighter sleeper but also now needs to be held until he’s asleep before you put him down. Anyway, the last couple weeks have given us a couple rough”

“Looking for anecdote stories here. My baby has slept through the night (7:30-7:00) fairly consistently since around 3.5 months (aware we are lucky!). We didn’t traditionally sleep train, but instead just made sure he had good sleep associations, gave gentle shushing and tummy rubs to soothe while he was in his own crib, so he definitely has the ability to fall asleep on his own - meaning, we don’t rock or feed to sleep or anything, we put him down awake and make sure he’s happy and he falls asle”

“My son just turned six months old a few days ago and last night and the night before, he has not slept. I have a two year old too but I don't think I really ever had this issue with her. He is up all night though and I'm so tired I'm struggling to get up in the morning to take care of my other child and myself. I can hardly keep my eyes open. I'm getting like zero sleep. Also to answer before anyone potentially comes at him, yes my partner is helping me and he is also just as exh”

“Hello! My LO is 7.5 months old and has never been a brilliant napper. Until he was almost 5 months we basically had to do every nap in the pram (my step count was insane) and then gradually we introduced cot naps. When we dropped to 3 naps around 5 months we’d then do 2 naps in the cot and the last one of the day in the pram. This then kept reducing until it was just a 10-15 minute catnap to tide him over until bedtime which we stopped 3 weeks ago and we’re now on 2 naps. We are following the sh”

“yall. I’m nervous everynight now. My daughter has learned to sit herself up from her belly. Well now she keeps sleeping that way and she uses the bottom of her sleep sack to soothe herself. I do see her head turned to the side, but worried cause the bottom of her sleep sack is under her head😭 any advice. I’m scared to move her and wake her submitted by /u/Competitive_Photo690 [link] [comments]”

“Looking for any advice on how to fix my 6 month olds sleep. She is waking up 4-5x a night and is very difficult to put back to sleep after 4am. She has never been a good sleeper. We still contact nap for all naps and she wakes as soon as I try to transfer. At 5 months we attempted sleep training and after a week I threw in the towel due to way more crying than I was comfortable with. I follow the same schedule every day. Wake between 7-7:15, 3 naps (2/2.5/2.5/3 wake windows). I cap naps at 3 hou”

“My boy is nine weeks old. He sleeps for bedtime really well, maybe he has a bit of a fuss but not too bad generally. But nap times in the day.. good lord. I've tried getting him down (in my arms..) before I think he'll be tired, when he shows the first signs, even just waiting until he seems upset.. nothing. He screams before sleep, kicking and flailing, every time. It's exhausting. It feels like Im just doing it wrong. I know some babies 'power down' like this but when you&#”

“I am convinced of a schedule issue. Usually following wake windows and schedules has helped us immensely but this is an ongoing problem for almost 2 months now. I have seemed advice from sleep training subreddit but I would like to know the opinion of this sub as well. My kiddo is about to be 9 months old (8 months adjusted) and I just can't do this anymore. We are having constant hourly wake ups. He is night weaned and doesn't take a bottle anymore. I've tried to offer in the past a”

“Somebody please tell me what is going on because once my baby turned 5 months it’s like he forgot how to sleep?!? I’m exhausted with 6-8 wake ups per night. From the beginning he has been quite a bad day sleeper needing a lot of support to get to sleep and stay asleep but in the end he’s been getting his hours in naps appropriate for his age. This hasnt changed. Some naps are 30 minutes some or nice chunky 1,5hrs naps, very random. We are still in the 3-4 naps per day situation. Nighttime sleep”

“I’m literally desperate to try anything. My son who is 8 months just won’t sleep by himself. He was great at sleeping in his bassinet until about 4 months. He would wake up every 30-60 minutes and it hasn’t stopped since. We’ve had to resort to co-sleeping which I’m not a fan of but I had to get sleep somehow. I’ve been trying every night to have him sleep in his bassinet and it just turns into this battle until about 1 in the morning when finally he just sleeps with us so we can get some kind o”

“My 6 month old baby girl sleep is only getting worse. During the day she is an angel, she has 3 naps, around 3 hours of day sleep. But during the nights... She will only sleep in my bed and I need to be near her. When I put her down she is totally asleep and she wakes up 5min max after I leave her. She wakes up every 2 hours even if I'm with her in bed. My partner can't help me because she doesnt allow anyone but me to put her to sleep, she screams until I come. She slept great until 4 m”

“Hi all. Just coming here to ask for advice and rant. My baby is 6 months in 2 weeks and our sleep is still pretty shitty. She would be up every 1 hour as a newborn and then shifted to 3 hours and now it seems like we are back to 2 hours. I tried everything at this point. She is now on formula as my supply disappeared and it did not make any difference. She wakes up crying for milk, and I tested a stupid theory that said try to soothe instead of giving them milk and it did not work out. I also tr”

“My daughter and I have never been able to figure out her nap situation. 5 months of putting her down several times a day then giving up half an hour later. She doesn't even really cry when I put her down, usually either fusses or laughs. She's been only waking up once or twice a month since she was a month old so the nighttime sleep is fine. I've tried white noise, waves, rain, shushing. In sleepsack out of sleep sack. Beside her, out of the room. Patting, rubbing. Just fed, just pla”

“Hi everyone. My baby is 5 months old and is in the phase where she's only taking 30 min naps at a time. Even if I do a contact nap she still doesn't sleep for more than 30 mins. I know that's a normal thing that happens but what is hard to deal with is that during her wake windows she's super fussy and tired. She's constantly yawning, isn't that playful and just seems so tired during the day. I tried to extend her wake window to see if her nap will get longer but as soon”

“Our baby slept in a bassinet for the first 4 months and a crib for a month. He started waking up when rolling on his stomach while sleeping and couldn't roll back over. We moved him to the bed so he'd sleep. Now at 10 months, we want him to sleep in the crib and he won't. If he does sleep there for a nap, he sleeps 30 - 45 minutes, tops. Then he wakes up crying and will only sleep in our arms or bed. We don't know what to do. My wife is afraid to let him cry a bit so she always g”

“Hi Looking for some tips or insight into how to move forward with a baby not sleeping well at all. My baby is 4 months old and wakes up 6+ times a night. We put down at 7:30pm and usually take 30-60 minutes to fall asleep. Without fail he will wake up after 45 minutes then wake again at 9:30pm and then 4-5 more times until his wake up until 7am. Most times he wakes up in the night it is instant inconsolable screaming, so we don’t even have the opportunity to try and teach him to self soothe in h”

“my son will be 11m next week and lately he’s been sleeping HORRIBLY. he’s always been a bad sleeper but this past week has been the worst it’s ever been. we always start him in the crib and used to get like 1.5 hour stretches in the crib before he woke and needed rocked back to sleep, but lately he’s only down for like 30-45 mins before waking. we typically try to put him back down and eventually put him in bed with us for some kind of sleep, but now he is breastfeeding like all night and if I u”

“Hey guys! We have a one month old who sleeps better arms up however his arms will still move around a lot which tends to keep him awake longer before he falls asleep then he gets upset, so my ask is this: do they make an arms up that is thicker or stronger so he can’t easily move his arms around while in arms up? We have the dream swaddles and another but they’re so thin that he can easily bend out of arms up. Thank you! submitted by /u/thekeeper08 [link] [comments]”

“My LO is 6 weeks old and is being cranky and sleeping very hardly, no contact naps and holding her are enough, takes around 30-40 mins to put her to sleep only to find her awake while transferring. Its exhausting. One of my friend suggested top feeding with rather formula or pumped/expressed milk. I tried and it worked. But i am not very confident to give her bottle already (i have a newborn bottle) as i am afraid she will reject nursing. Suggest what should i do? Is this my supply issue that is”

“Our 1M old son is only able to sleep peacefully when tightly wrapped in the stretchy wrap baby carrier and attached to us. Overnight he usually needs to be put in a swaddle, and even then he many times needs someone to gently caress him or at least hold a hand on them. As soon as the hand goes away, he seems to go in this very light and agitated sleep that eventually results in him waking up. Are there ways to help him sleep better? Certain routines or ways to get him comfortable? Also, is all t”

“looking for some advice and tips on how the hell im supposed to get my baby to sleep. he is a year old in two days, and for bedtime ive always had to feed to sleep (bottle fed) ive tried the chair method, very very tame cry it out, all those things but my baby does not have the temperament for any of it. even with the chair method he will cry so hard that he coughs and is visibly much to distraught to continue. snuggling very occasionally will work. but most of the time he won’t wind down. with”

“TLDR: 12 week old baby will absolutely not sleep unless held, mom’s returning to work soon and is really nervous about how daycare will work if she refuses to take naps independently. Our baby is 12 weeks old & my maternity leave is ending in less than 2 weeks. She doesn’t, and has never, slept independently for naps or night time. By “independently” I mean without being held or in a carrier - not in a separate room or by herself etc. Although I really do love our contact naps (and even thou”

“So my 3.5 month old has recently (about 3 weeks) started sleeping through the night. By sleeping, I mean, not eating. So for example he will fall asleep around 8 pm and not get up to eat again until about 7am the next day ( Amazing!) But in between that, he fusses about every couple hours to every hour, starting from like 2am when the binky falls out of his mouth. We have the basinet next to our bed and my husband and I take turns sleeping next to it. We call it being 'on shift' to put t”

“I have a baby that is almost 8 months old. We are averaging two 30 min naps and anywhere from 8.5-9.5 hours at night. I literally don't know how he does it but he's perfectly content. Every once in awhile he will grace us with a 75 min nap or a 10 hour night but that is the rarity. When he's awake he is so much fun but very high energy and very high demand for stimulation. He is not crawling yet but he almost is and I'm going to be in trouble when he does 😂 Honestly most of the”

“I know this is early but as a first time parent, I’m just trying to get a feel how you all have handled bedtimes during major holidays. Our son is currently 6 months old and dropped his middle of the night feed in his own at about 5 months so he’s sleeping through the night (currently). Right now goes to bed at 7:15 and wakes at 6:30. It’s been a dream and we’ve been pretty strict with his bedtime. I’m trying to get in the mindset that I can’t always control bedtime. Our son will be 9 months for”

“Hi all sorry this is a long one! Just looking for some help/ advice on sleep! I’m a first time mom to a nearly 7 month old boy. He’s never been a good sleeper, normally wakes up every 2/3 hours for milk (I breastfeed and also co-sleep with a side car cot set up). However, the last couple of weeks he has been waking up every hour from when he’s put to bed to when we get up for the day. Sometimes I can get him back to sleep with boob which is great but he’s started refusing boob and only wanting m”

“So yesterday my 5 week old was taking shorter naps and having a harder time falling asleep and staying asleep. Last night we fed him at 8:30. It’s now 4 am and he was still sleeping. He usually is hungry every 3 hours. We had to wake him up!!We were shocked how long this stretch of sleep was. Is this something we should be concerned about?? submitted by /u/anonymoususer249 [link] [comments]”

“Wow, 6 months is something else. My LO just got her first tooth. She started teething at 4 months and it’s been a blur ever since. Lots more night wakes. Now she won’t nap. I had her on a schedule two weeks ago and she was on that schedule for months. She napped pretty easily. I was gone for one single day and the schedule wasn’t followed to a T. Now it’s like pulling teeth. I’ve tried everything. Before the questions start- yes she has a white noise machine, black out curtains, etc. I switched”

“When did your newborn sleep in the bassinet? Our nine day old has not done it for more than 20 minutes. I’ve been doing all the things such as putting her in feet first, white noise, dim lighting, all the things, pacifier etc. but she won’t do it for long as all. submitted by /u/NotAMazda [link] [comments]”

“Is it normal for my 5 month old to still take 30 min to an hour to finally fall asleep for daytime naps? I feel like Im pulling my hair out every time I try and put baby to sleep. I try getting her ready early, after being awake 1-1.5 hours depending on sleep cues, is that too late? I start her out with a feed, then a change, then I try and settle her in the bassinet... after 30 min or so she either cries to sleep while I rock her or I give up and bring her to my bed for a contact nap on the bre”

“Hi, I love my son so much. He started rolling Ahhh but now I can’t swaddle him at night. The thing is, he LOVES being swaddled and without his swaddle, he rubs his face a lot and is generally unsettled (he gets itchy, yes we have been to the doctor) I am at my wits end sleeping ~3/4 am every night because he doesn’t settle unless he is swaddled. I tried doing a one arm swaddle but that didn’t work. Now I’ve gone cold turkey so he sleeps with a light sleep sack with no swaddle at all. I play whit”

“My typically decent sleeper has become incredibly difficult for me (mom) to put to sleep. She isn’t BF, only formula and is about 3 weeks away from her first birthday. All of a sudden in the last ~2 weeks she has been a nightmare to get down - just will not fall asleep with me. I’m doing the same routine as before, no change - but she’d rather be awake and hang out, only to then start crying inconsolably if I put her in her crib and leave the room. My husband on the other hand has zero issues ge”

“My baby is 8 months old and was sleep trained but recently has started learning how to pull himself up to a stand and since he is still very uncoordinated, would fall and hit his face or head on his crib. It has been happening the last week that I can’t stand watching him do this anymore. We’ve moved back his crib in our bedroom again so I can make sure to get him before he falls, I know this is normal development but we’ve decided to be on the safer side until he gets used to standing without h”

“My baby is turning 6 months at the end of the month, up until probably a month ago she slept through the night, but for the past month she has been waking 1-2 times a night and wakes up at 6am for the day. Her naps are stuck at 40 min, few times a week she will sleep longer. I try and save them cause she usually doesn’t wake up happy from a nap so I know she’s still tired. She has formula fed eating 4 ounces every three hours. Not sure if there’s anything I can do to see if anyone else is in the”

“Anyone have a cosleeper that was just a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad sleeper? He’s 11 months and my third baby. He’s the first that I have ever coslept with because ya girl was tiredddd and I didn’t have the stamina or willpower to get him in his bassinet or crib train him at 2 months like I did for my girls. When he was a newborn, we would set him down for naps and that worked out just fine, but as he got older he would wake up immediately and there was no amount of patting/shushing th”

“My soon to be 7 month old has been getting more and more AWFUL at falling asleep. Baby fights and fights sleep. I can only now either get baby to nap during stroller rides during the day or rocking and walking laps outside at night. She’s now pulling to stand, army crawling, and sitting up all at once (I assume it’s because she is obsessed with using her newfound skills) But I’m getting nervous because sometimes I have to rock her hard or go over SUPER bumpy parts of my driveway in the stroller”

“It’s taken me 3 months to get my baby to sleep in her next to me, and now I’m thinking about the next sleep stage! She is 4 months now and on the 95th percentile. She comes into our bed from 5 am onwards and we safe co sleep. My question is, how did you transition your velcro baby to the crib and what type of crib? submitted by /u/bluebella72 [link] [comments]”

“My 3 month old baby started falling asleep by himself, one day my baby was very fussy and couldn’t get him to sleep so after many failed attempts I placed him in the crib and he was asleep in minutes, so next nap I tried to repeat it and it was successful so now it has been 5 days and he falls asleep in his crib independently no crying or anything. Is this normal? I feel like it should be harder to sleep train I feel guilty that maybe he feels alone or something. Has anyone else experienced this”

“We think our 6 month old baby has hit separation anxiety which has affected how he sleeps. I feed to sleep, and used to be able to place him in his crib right away and he would roll over and go to sleep. Now, he cries the second I try lowering him into his crib, so I hold him until he’s in a deep sleep and put him down. He will then wake up a few minutes later screaming. I sleep in his nursery with him to avoid walking back and forth in between my room and his with his frequent wake-up’s. I’m tr”

“Baby sleeps well once she is put to bed. It is the putting to bed that's a struggle. Naps are fine. It is just night time that she seems to have issues with. LO is 10 months Day time naps 2-3 hours total. 2 naps. Each nap is 30 mins to 1.5 hours Wake windows in the morning 3 to 3.5 hours Last wake window - 5 hours on some nights. I try putting her to bed at 3.5 / 4 hours and it doesn't work. I try at 5 then she goes for 6 hours. Night sleep of 6 hours + one 3-4 hour stretch. No night fee”

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“Where's you 6-7mo at? Are you cosleeping, next-to-me crib, or separate room? How many naps per day, on average? What are the wake windows between daytime naps, on average? What's kiddo's bedtime? How long do they sleep, on average? How long are their stretches, on average? Are the stretch longer in the beginning of night, middle, or end? Or it changes? What helps/doesn't help aid longer stretches? What do the need to sleep at night (breast? contact? space? shushing?) How are you”

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“I know this question is quite old and have been asked many a times but I’m curious how are you all putting your baby to sleep? My lo is 3 months 7 days old and she is sometimes feeding every hour because she nurses to sleep. Sometimes when she has fed well i figure out that she is sleepy and try to put her to sleep by rocking and patting. She resists and eventually surrenders within a few mins but sometimes even after trying a couple of minutes she ends up crying a lot and i have to surrender an”