Babies Waking All Night Exhausts the Whole House

“Basically the title^ Please include baby’s age and how long they nap during the day? submitted by /u/Old_Literature_3750 [link] [comments]”

“My 5-month-old refuses to nap in her bassinet during the day, and I’m looking for any advice. She will only contact nap. If I try putting her down drowsy but awake, she immediately starts hysterically crying. If I let her fall asleep on me first and then very carefully transfer her to the bassinet, she’ll usually wake up and start crying within about 5 minutes. It’s the same thing for her stroller. Interestingly, she sleeps much better in her bassinet at night, so this seems to be a daytime-only”

“Hello My baby turned 6 months today. I’ve been struggling to put her for naps for the last 4 months. She’d be tired and sleepy but would absolutely resist sleep and scream because I was putting her to sleep. I tried EVERYTHING but the resistance never went down and I would try to put a screaming sleepy baby to sleep for 30 minutes only for her to wake up in 20 minutes (1 sleep cycle) Last week, I read about high sensory needs babies and the signs seemed to match my baby. I did some vestibular ex”

“My nearly ten month old is really struggling to sleep since we had to drop the mattress lower in his crib. He used to rest his legs hanging over the crib side. he sleeps with his legs dangling over his pushchair bar for naps and when we contact nap his legs rest on my legs. He doesn’t have anywhere to put his legs up with the new crib set up and he’s now waking every 45 minutes crying as I guess this is his sleep association 😅 He doesn’t like poking his legs through the bars. When would it be s”

“Really struggling to get him to sleep in the bassinet. Maybe this is normal ! He did nap there for two hours during the day but tonight my husband and I tried to put him down for like two hours almost I nursed him to sleep then he peed. I nurse him asleep again then he pooped. Then I nursed him asleep again and he woke up like two minutes later so we’ve literally been taking shifts holding him at night along with my parents the past four night. Is there anything I can do to help him sleep in the”

“I have a 2 month old basically velcro baby. He slept in his bassinet in the first 3 weeks, although even then he liked to be held a lot, but we were able to get 3-4 hours stretches. Since then it started to go downhill. We suspect its also because of gas. If he doesnt wake up as soon as we put him down, or we're able to get him back to sleep, its very rare that he sleeps for longer than 1 hour. He also doesn't take a pacifier. He also cries in his stroller so its hard to get him out of t”

“Up until recently, my baby would wake at 6:30am, nap from 10:30-12ish, then nap again from 3-4:30, bedtime at 7pm. Lately, she's been falling asleep on me straight after her morning milk and sleeping from about 8-9ish. She'll still have her normal morning/afternoon naps (although slightly shunted timings). She's happy, growing well and still sleeping through the night, but I wondered if this was a normal thing all babies did at this age? Is the extra nap linked to some developmental”

“My third baby will be 10 weeks old on Monday and she takes almost all her naps a day in the carrier or on the go in the car seat. I have a 5.5 year old and a 3.5 year old and I barely put either of them in the carrier when they were babies so I’m just worried that by all the carrier naps I’m doing with my third, that she’ll never nap independently. She sleeps at night in a bassinet by our bed. She’ll go to bed around 8p wake around 3-4a and then again at 6:30/7ish so she does pretty good overnig”

“How old it is for the babies before the start getting a full night’s uninterrupted sleep? submitted by /u/Expensive-Hat-8410 [link] [comments]”

“Hi all, Ive come to reddit to find some advice on how to stop cosleeping. I never intended for this to happen with my baby and I don’t want it to continue. It all started about a month ago in mid to late June. My baby (now 6 months old) came down with a bad ear infection from daycare. At the same time, my husband and I came down with walking pneumonia. Our baby had been sleeping through the night since maybe 3.5 months old. It’s been a blessing and he’s slept well in his bedside bassinet since d”

“Soooo we’ve run into an issue the last bit with my son where he has just plain decided that he does NOT want to go to sleep if I’m the one doing it. Anything that used to work before, now does absolutely nothing other than get me relentlessly punched in the throat by a screaming baby. What would normally get him to sleep in just a few mins now has zero effect. He just seems to consistently want to be attached to mom. I even tried having one of my wife’s shirts on my shoulder when trying to get h”

“We have an almost 8mo old who is nearly sleeping thru the night. On occasion he does wake for a comfort pat or pacifier. Current setup: - baby and I (mother) sleep in the same room (crib for him) on the main floor bedroom of the house for ease of the kitchen and bathroom when he was a newborn. - there are 2 bedrooms upstairs. One is my 7yo son and one is our current master (husband and I sleep divorced for this baby) - my 8mo is a light sleeper. If I move around in my bed or use the restroom in”

“Need advice please 🙏 Baby is 14.5 months old and over the last week began refusing rocking/carrying to sleep by dad as he has done for the past 10~ months. we just went on a week vacation to family, driving 8 hours both ways. Baby started refusing the very first night of this trip, at unfamiliar (to her) house. We thought it was a phase, overstimulation, or messed up nap schedule. We just got home and she refused again. She has been ebf since birth, but dad is stay at home, and I work full time”

“Hey guys, I’m a new parent and sometimes my wife will put down the child for nap and sometimes I will. I offered to put her down most times but my wife likes to put her down. So whenever our daughter is asleep, if I’ve got no chores to do, I just would like to go and relax and do my own thing. However, she thinks that’s not fair because she has to sit there with our child. But my counter to is that we could easily have gotten her to sleep, and then set her in her own bed. Is it wrong of me to wa”

“I am fucking exhausted. Baby used to be sooo easy to put down until a couple of weeks ago. Now it takes me at least an hour to put him down for a nap. I tried extending the wake windows, shortening them, dropping a nap - nothing. I thought he wasn’t tired enough but I gave him 30 minutes, 1hr, still nothing. He dozes off when I rock him and then starts arching his back and flailing. I thought maybe he wants to go to sleep independently but no, he cries even more. I don’t know what to do. I guess”

“TLDR: My 6 month old was sleeping well in her crib and suddenly started waking every 2 hours. It’s brutal…She’s a very high-alert baby going through tons of development milestones and has a tooth about to break through. Looking for solidarity/advice from anyone who survived this stage! I’m mostly looking for solidarity because I feel like I’m losing my mind. We were doing SO well and then suddenly everything changed! My baby girl is 6 months old and I swear she is the definition of a “high alert”

“TLDR: My 6 month old was sleeping well in her crib and suddenly started waking every 2 hours. It’s brutal…She’s a very high-alert baby going through tons of development milestones and has a tooth about to break through. Looking for solidarity/advice from anyone who survived this stage! I’m mostly looking for solidarity because I feel like I’m losing my mind. We were doing SO well and then suddenly everything changed! My baby girl is 6 months old and I swear she is the definition of a “high alert”

“My baby is 8.5 months old and her bed time is, and has always been at around 5/6pm (not my doing, but just when she’s always been ready for bed), which sucks for me bc I haven’t been out of the house after that time ever since I had her and I miss going out at night time. Can I manage or change her bed time, and if so, how? Or is this just one of those things that you need to sacrifice until it changes as they grow (assuming and hoping it does change)? submitted by /u/Prettyinpink091”

“Howdy dads. I have two girls (2.5y and 9.5m), and bedtime right now takes about two hours between dinner, bath, reading, singing, feeding, rocking and put downs. They have different bed times and sleep in different rooms. I want to know how hard it is to put them in the same room at this age, and move their bedtimes closer together. Here's the schedule now. Please help me strategize or point out areas where you think I'm sucking it up: Oldest bedtime - 8:30pm. Youngest bedtime - 7:45pmis”

“Had our daughter’s 6 month appointment today and our doctor said baby is supposed to start sleeping through the night now. At the moment she wakes up about 2x night and I usually breastfeed her back to sleep. Our doc also said to breastfeed her about 30 minutes before putting her to down so she doesn’t associate the boob with sleeping. He suggested doing a night time routine such as reading and then placing her down when she’s not fully asleep. I’m so nervous to try this… especially for those mi”

“My nearly 8 month old baby has cried through every bedtime routine in his young life. We started around 4 months and I’m so tired of him being so miserable, it breaks my heart!!! He is sleeping pretty well now (averaging 1-2 quick feeds per night), falls asleep independently in his crib happily. Wake windows are 2.5/3.5/4.5 (10.5 hours awake). Goes down easy for naps - first nap is an hour and a half and his second is 40 mins. The problem is bedtime routine. We start with a diaper change, and as”

“I am my beloved 11 month old son’s chosen sleep parent. I have the voodoo magic needed to get him to sleep, I have had the touch since he was 3 months old. My wife tried on and off during months 4 and 5 and it would take her an hour and a half what would take me 30 mins to get him down. This is naps, this is bedtime, this is any sleep. This includes wake ups in the middle of the night, it’s all me. I really have been happy to do this, but I am starting to get a little burnt out. The only other p”

“My babe is only a month so this doesn’t apply yet BUT I keep reading posts on here about parents putting babies to sleep at 8-9pm and then waking at 6:30 for the day. Is this the only option? Is it selfish for me to want a future schedule where baby wakes closer to 9am? Especially on weekends? Obviously parenting comes with sacrifices but waking up every single day for the foreseeable future at 6:30 am seems wild lol. submitted by /u/AlwaysGrowing326 [link] [comments]”

“I need help. My 5 month old now is not making it 20 minutes at night without being latched. It started with his sleep cycles, about every 40 minutes or so and now last night it was every time he would move he would wake himself up and escalate until he was latched again. I never minded him nursing to sleep but this is not sustainable in any way for me. I don’t have help at night and very little help in the day. I understand the regression, wake windows, naps, all of that. How do I break this spe”

“Hey all, quick question, just want to see if I’m not alone. My baby is 5.5months and still contact naps for any naps we have at home. He’ll only sleep otherwise in the buggy if we’re on the go or his car seat. For the life of me we just cannot transfer him. We’ve tried everything. Awake, drowsy but awake, asleep for 5, 10, 15, 20 minutes. We’ve tried him in his next to me, his crib, his play pen or on our bed (following ss7) he will ALWAYS wake and that just means a really crap nap and the rest”

“My baby is 4 months old next week, and she literally will not sleep more then 30 minutes at a time, what is going on 🫠 She has been absolutely HATING anything to do with sleeping, I’m talking screaming, crying and having a meltdown everytime she gets an inkling that we’re about to start sleepy time; and then after I finally get her to sleep it’s like clock work as soon as it hits between 25-30 minutes she opens her eyes and is done with her nap, there is no saving it either I’ve done that succe”

“My 9, almost 10 month old is a unicorn baby. Has slept through the night since he was around 5 weeks old with a few regressions and excepts for illness and teething along the way. He is now up 2-4 times every. Single. Night. ALWAYS around 10-11pm and 3-4am and sometimes more than that. If he wakes pre-midnight he will usually settle fairly quickly but when he wakes after midnight it’s a 45minute-1.5hour ordeal. He will calm down when I go to him but then he will just lay in my arms awake for FOR”

“Hello 👋 It's 4am here. Baby is almost 6 weeks old. Hasn't slept the whole day. Now is sleeping since 10pm. Last feeding at 9pm (7 hours ago). If I should let baby sleep for now, when should I wake them? Thanks 😊 Update: the baby woke up at 5am submitted by /u/spino_le_vrai [link] [comments]”

“So frustrated right now. Having a hard time with naps and bedtime. LO is 5 months… babe wakes up at 7:30, and has 3 naps throughout the day. We seem to be transitioning from 4 naps to 3 over the last week. Sometimes I’m lucky and her second nap will be 1.5 hrs long, but typically they are only 30-40 minutes. Which means her wake windows are LONG. Like 2.5-3 hours. I can’t get her to sleep if she’s not sleepy. Rocking doesn’t work and she doesn’t feed to sleep consistently anymore. Today is the s”

“So I've been bed sharing my little one since about 4 weeks old when she decided after 10 days of trying, she did not like her bed side crib anymore. We now are on a floor bed in her nursery and have been for 4+ months. It's gone really well, started with bed at 10pm, same night routine as always, nursed to sleep, out like a light with maybe 1-2 night feeds until 7-8am. At around 5 months bedtime moved to 9pm, same routine & feeds. 6 months has hit, bedtime has been gradually moved to”

“My baby is 8 months, and will be 9 months next week. He is 6 weeks premature, so 7 months adjusted. After teething, milestone leaps, etc, he has started to wake up for like 1-2 hours in the middle of the night, every night. And I am losing my mind. Can anyone help me plan out naps better? We previously were trying a 2 nap schedule and 3 hour wake windows. So typical wake time: 6:30ish And we’d try to aim for 2-3 hours of daytime sleep between 2 naps. Last nap hopefully ends somewhere between 3:3”

“We have a 9 week old and I'm sure she, like many other babies, has trouble with naps. She wakes often, like 15-30 min into a nap. We rock her to sleep then transfer to crib as much as possible. Recently the pediatrician (plus social media lol) recommended putting baby down for all sleep "drowsy but awake" in the crib. But when I put her down "drowsy but awake" she becomes full awake, and then I nearly break my back patting and shushing her until she actually falls asleep”

“My son just turned 1 this month. He has never been a good sleeper since the 4 month regression. We used to rock him to sleep but we recently moved to holding him, then patting him so he at least falls asleep in the crib. Sometimes it takes him a long time to fall asleep and it’s breaking our backs. I don’t expect a floor bed to help his sleep, but at least let us lay down instead of leaning over the crib and maybe let us get some extra sleep? He’s never actually slept next to us, I’ve tried to g”

“Hello everyone, its midnight here. Our 10 month old, every couple days or so, wakes up at 11- midnight and is just wide awake. Crying, crawling, laughing, while stick. No sleep anymore. I work 2 jobs, 20-22 hour days and my wife works her job, and losing sleep is a burden for each of us. Her routine is the same, nap at 9ish and 2ish. Only 3 hours as is, same bedtime and it isnt really constant she does this. But she did it Saturday night, now tonight. What do we do submitted by /u/Fr”

“How do you sleep with a newborn in the room??? My LO is a month old and my sleep sucks with her in the room. She doesn’t wake up fussy but all of the newborn sounds are killing me. She will wake up and cry once and then settle down, she grunts, and stirs so much… I’m ready for her to go to her own room but I feel guilty! I know the AAP rec is 6 months, but HOW DO PEOPLE DO IT?! submitted by /u/Negative-Source-9099 [link] [comments]”

“My 6 month old used to sleep through the night weeks ago, but lately she's either constantly up every hour give or take, or I'll get one 5 hour stretch and she'll wake up every 30 minutes to an hour the rest of the night. She also keeps waking up at 7 am instead of 8 am. What am I doing wrong? I want to sleep again. I've been getting like 2-4 hours this entire week. She can't fall asleep without help so she won't get placed into her crib until she's been asleep for 30”

“Does anyone else’s 10 week old still have a witching hour ? My sweet LO is almost impossible to get down for any nap, she does cat nap in stroller, lap, or carrier, once a month she will fall asleep in her crib for a nap for a few hours. I think it’s all overtired. Any tips besides telling me about wake windows, they are kind of worthless if your baby doesn’t fall asleep. Just want to know if we just need to ride it out a few more weeks/months or should we be doing something different. Thanks al”

“I tried everything. Bouncing, talking, the swing, tummy time, sensory toys. Apparently she’s just really tired of me 😭🥲 until 3-5am that is. submitted by /u/Public_Anywhere_6044 [link] [comments]”

“We have been putting our 15 week old down for naps after 75-80min awake. For the most part, he falls asleep quickly and by himself in the crib. Zero intervention (no hand on chest, etc). It only lasts 30min, but I have been told that’s normal for this age. However, we recently learned that the age appropriate wake window for a 15 week old is 90-120min. We decided to give that a try because his nighttime sleep is awful (wakes every hour) and we were curious about whether this could help. So for t”

“My little one is 6 almost 7 months old and still sleeps on the side of my bed in her pack and play. She wakes up about every hour to every two hours because she wants her Binky so I have to put it back in because she didn’t develop the skill yet to put her own Binky back in. Should I continue waking up every hour or two to help her or should I get rid of the binky completely, and let her learn to sleep on her own without it? Sincerely, an overtired mama who could use all of the advice subm”

“My LO hasn’t been the greatest sleeper. She slept great till 4-5 weeks old and since then it’s been hell. But it seems to be progressively getting worse. She used to atleast nap okay but now naps are a fight. She will only sleep in my arms, for maybe 30-45 minutes. At night she is only sleeping for 30 minutes then waking up wanting to feed again (breastfeeding/ occasional bottle limited to 1 per day) and I feel like I’m loosing my mind. I’ve tried everything. Pumping her full of calories during”

“My baby girl turned 6 months about 2 weeks ago and i’ve struggling to get on a schedule to feed her. When she wakes up, it’s 8am and i’m extremely tired to do anything. I know i need to stop this and just go on with my day and make her food. How did you make a schedule for your LO? For example my baby wakes up at 8am, she eats, and from then on, she eats every 3-4 hours. Still only drinking 4oz. I don’t know how to go about feeding her while still drinking milk. please help me guys I need my bab”

“I played rough with my daughter (9mo) one night before bed, and she went to sleep instantly! Since then I’ve been doing it every night, and sleep is as easy as zipping her sleep sack and putting her down in the crib. She sucks on the sleep sack for a moment then falls asleep. Not a single tear has been shed at bedtime in the week I’ve been doing this! And the giggles are the best. A quick google tells me that this is a widely known thing that helps kids blow off steam. Examples of playing rough:”

“My 3.5 month old has always been a little difficult to put down for naps — needs rocking, shushing, chest pressure, sensory deprivation the works. I swear it’s like every time we learn a tactic that works we use it for a week and she knows what we are trying to do. She used to fight a little bit but this week it has been a LOT of crying and fighting. We are following wake windows, experimenting with shorter and longer but it’s just so hard 5x a day. They’re also lasting like 35 minutes when we u”

“I could really use some advice because I don’t know what to try next. We’re deep in the 4-month sleep regression and it’s been going on for about a month now. I’m completely exhausted and feel like we’re stuck in a cycle. What’s happening: Nearly 5 months old (19 weeks). Waking every 30 minutes to 1 hour overnight for the past month. Night wakings have become much more intense over the last 2 weeks with lots of kicking, thrashing and difficulty settling. He’s become incredibly alert and aware re”

“Since about 6 weeks old, my baby will sleep well and sleep thru the night. Once I get him asleep, he stays asleep, even after transfer, for about 7-9 hour stretch’s and 2 hour naps thru the day. Lately he has not been napping more than 20 mins, and unless he’s swaddled, he cannot stay asleep. But he can’t be swaddled because he can roll now. Sleep sack hasn’t done much and he still fusses awake. he has an awful startle reflux that wakes him so easy. he’s discovered his hands and legs more, putti”

“My baby just turned 8 months old, and putting her in the crib has suddenly become incredibly difficult. She has never been a great sleeper, although recently we were having some nights with "only" two wake-ups. At least it used to be relatively easy to transfer her to the crib after rocking her to sleep. But over the past week it's become really hard, especially at bedtime (naps aren't nearly as bad). She usually falls asleep in our arms within 5–10 minutes, but the moment we l”

“Our almost 6mo is rolling and moving a lot in sleep. She likes sleeping with her arms out BUT has trouble falling asleep without being traditionally swaddled. She’s waking more in her family-made bassinet, which tilts when she moves. Last night, we just did the Keababies soothe swaddle wrap with arms out and started in our pack & play. Idk if this was too many new factors but it was ROUGH. She woke up at 1:15, we fed her but she didn’t settle for a long time and we eventually got her bassine”

“So - I have posted on this forum many times for tips to get my baby to sleep. She was having 6+ hour wake windows in the evenings because she would just refuse sleep. I tried everything. The other night I experimented swaddling with her arms in - I’m aware of the safety issues. I realised her Moro reflex is so strong. But ever since I started doing the swaddle, she’s asleep within minutes. It saved us. She slept through the night and has done so every night since I’ve been swaddling. Her daytime”

“I would love some advice or tips to help with our current sleeping situation. My 8-month-old (almost 9-month-old) son naps pretty well without issue. Are we traveling or visiting my parents? You know he only wakes up once or twice a night. But at home he is waking up 5-7 times a night and recently only been sleeping for around an hour at a time in those stretches. He also frequently won’t go back to sleep for around an hour at least once a night. Any tips or advice for how to remedy this are gre”

“My EBF 10.5 mo old used to sleep through the night since like 4 months old, but with a dream feed. I stopped dream feeding around 7-8 mo but as we increased solids at 9 mo baby refuses afternoon feed no matter what, so i feel like she’s genuinely hungry when she wakes up at 10-11 pm and expexting a feed i have tried letting her fuss for awhile and she wont go back to sleep. Im talking letting her fuss for like 30 min-1 hr. I did make sure to check on her make sure all her basic needs met not sic”

“Ever since he was born, he’s always woken up around the same time. Midnight & 4am. I always assumed it’d get better with age but now he’s four and a half and he still wakes up at those times. If we’re lucky, he’ll sleep through midnight but it’s rare, and every single night he wakes up at 3/4 unless he sleeps with us. I’m pregnant now, and it’s so hard to get up constantly at night for him and I’m not sure how we’ll be able to do it with a newborn around. Does anyone have any tips or tricks”

“PLEASE HELP ME! My daughter (18m) is suddenly just not sleeping. She has been awake from 11pm-2/3am for the past 10 days consistently and I’m losing my mind. 10 days ago it was like turning off a light switch. We’ve gone from happy babbling toddler who goes to sleep independently, to essentially split nights every night over night. I will add that she has just finished a 7 day course of antibiotics for a slight ear infection and she has 3 canines that are coming through at the same time so this”

“We went out for the first time since having our LO. He is 4 and a half weeks old. My in laws watched him for 2.5 hours. When we returned, they said he was peacefully sleeping the entire time and they had just taken him out of the car seat before we arrived. In other words, he slept in his car seat in their house for 2 to 2.5 hours. My husband and I know this is not recommended. Everything I've read states that the biggest risk is positional asphyxiation when he's sleeping and if he is al”

“Honestly I have no idea. I snoo my baby currently so basically I put him in the snoo content, turn the snoo on, pop a hand on his chest and shush him until he is alseep. If he fusses I pick him up and rock him till he is content and then start over. He is 3 months and that works currently. But I would like to move him, potentially around 5 months into his crib. But I would like to know what works for people. Am I rocking him to sleep and making the transfer each nap? Is that the process for a 5”

“Why oh why can my LO sleep peacefully and quietly during the day, but turns into a pterodactyl riding a motorcycle at night? I get that it's active sleeping. But why are they different? Why not active sleep all the time? Why mostly at night? submitted by /u/Commmercial_Crab4433 [link] [comments]”

“Alright, so my daughter has always been fairly clingy but slept pretty well in her bassinet early on, and decently in her crib. The last couple of weeks she wakes up every single night and screams these huge “pain cry” screams until I give her a bottle. After she has the bottle, she settles back to sleep but will NOT transfer back to the crib. As long as I’m right next to her, she will sleep through the night. If she wakes up and can’t immediately reach out and touch me, she has a meltdown. I to”

“My baby startles himself wayyy too quickly and without me keeping his hands down ( which he HATES) he literally won’t sleep. I’ve tried hands out, one hand out. No- he wants them up and by his face. I got one of those love to dream ones but he didn’t like it :( any tips ? submitted by /u/SandwichDependent199 [link] [comments]”

“My 1 year old is a low sleep needs kid and has been since the newborn stage. We still rock her to sleep after reading some books, because we can’t get through the crying of sleep training. But when she’s very close to falling asleep, she stars violently putting her hand in mine or my husbands mouth, clawing at our gums and teeth. On our lips is not enough, she needs to be inside our mouth. I’ve tried to stop it by holding her hand, redirecting it, trying a lovey, stuffed animal- literally anythi”