When his naps are so short and variable. Bedtime varies so much because of his short naps were really struggling to get any predictability over here

My child has never been a great sleeper. We’ve struggled since birth with naps and sleeping at night. My daughter is 3 1/2 now and while she has improved with her sleep significantly, she still wakes up once a night. Every single night. We lay her down in her bed each night and she falls asleep relatively easily. But every night without fail, between 2-4 she wakes up screaming. At this point I just bring her into my bed and she falls right back asleep. She has no major medical issues, she has a very solid routine, and a very steady home life. I’m at a loss trying to figure out what’s going on and how to get her to sleep through the night. I don’t know if this is developmental, because since birth she’s very rarely slept through the night completely. Has anyone experienced anything like this? I am exhausted and willing to try anything at this point if it means I get a good nights sleep.

Basically what the title says. I’m struggling to take baby out anywhere because she’s so interested in her surroundings. She also mostly only contact naps. I’ve tried baby wearing for naps with hit or miss success. I just purchased a travel white noise machine and solid black car seat cover to try next but I still don’t know how I’m possibly going to settle baby while we’re out of the house then transfer her to a car seat for a nap. We have a bunch of travel, weddings, and bridal/baby showers coming up that baby is invited to and I’d love to be able to attend without having to worry about the activity completely messing up her sleep.

As the title says, my 6 month old has been waking up more than 6 times every night. She never woke up this much even as a newborn. This has been going on for about 6 weeks. Last night she woke up 15 times and I am just at a loss for what to do. She naps 3 times a day and goes to bed at 7:30 and wakes up around 7. We have the same routine every night. Bath, nurse, read books, then bed time in her crib in her own room. She goes down for naps and bedtime pretty easily. I’m able to set her down awake and she rolls over to her tummy and eventually goes to sleep with crib side soothing. I used to have to rock her to sleep but we’ve been able to do crib side soothing the past few weeks which is a small win for me. I’ve been able to slowly decrease the amount of help I give her when crib side soothing. Now i just have to put my hand on her upper back and let her hold onto one of my fingers and she falls asleep in 5 minutes max. When she wakes up at night, I usually just have to put her binky back in and she goes back to sleep. If the binky doesn’t work, I try crib side soothing and try my hardest to not have to pick her up. If it’s been 3 hours since her last feed, I just go ahead and nurse her. Does anyone have any advice or similar experiences? Sincerely, a very tired mama🥲

Hi all, my son is 21 months nearly 22 months old and he is such a bad sleeper that it’s really mentally taking a massive toll on me and I don’t know what I can do. He is SUPER dependent on me, he still wakes up multiple times a night calling for me and needs me to do bum taps or sing to him to get him to sleep or sometimes even rock him. On average he wakes up between 2-7 times a night and there have been occasions where he is awake for 2 hours or even ready for the day at 4am. He’s always been a very bad sleeper since he was around 9 months old before that he was great, we did contact naps until 7 months old. Bedtime takes up to 40mins on a good day and consists of him laying in his cot and us tapping his bum and signing to him, he will literally do anything to keep himself awake until he can’t do it anymore. But the biggest struggle for us at the moment are his naps it’s beyond hard to get him to sleep and just tests me in every way possible. He used to do naps in the car and that was easier than at home but then the last 3 weeks decided he wanted to fight that too, at home it’s almost impossible to get him to nap we have to physically rock him (he’s 13kgs) and force him to sleep he will do anything to fight it and I mean anything, he will smack his lips, talk, laugh, sing, literally try to fight us off until eventually he can’t do it anymore and that takes at least 45mins (on a good day) and is sooo exhausting. There are days where I just end up crying or screaming at him which I don’t want to do but it’s so frustrating when I’m trying so hard and he just laughs at me or does something silly. I’ve tried to leave him in the cot and walk out because sometimes I need to and the moment I leave he becomes hysterical and starts crying straight away. I tried to just sit there and he just tries to get up. He thinks it’s a game and just rolls around does back flips just anything.

We thought maybe his ready to drop the nap because we went through 2 weeks of him fighting it so bad that a lot of the time he didn’t nap, so had an early bed time but his night time sleep was just as bad and then even worse him not napping started affecting his behaviour and he became so angry all the time, throwing tantrums hitting biting etc (never ever did that apart from occasional tantrums) so we realised he really did need the nap even though he would act normal. We managed to get him back into naps by forcing him like before still takes up to 45 mins and is such a big struggle. He is super clever and advanced, he talks a lot and can put 3 word sentences together, he has SO much energy so I do think his brain struggles to switch off but what else can we do? It affects my mental health so much and it’s sooo difficult, the nap time, the bed time and also constant wake up at night I feel like I can’t catch a break. It’s making me feel so frustrated with him a lot and everyday I’m just running on nothing. When does it get better? Or will it get better? I feel like sleep training him is impossible he is hysterical when I leave the room let alone if I tried anything else, I feel like some of this is my fault and I’ve made him too dependent on me 🥲 (also tried to get him to sleep in bed with us because we don’t mind but he doesn’t want that)

What do you do if naps re so crappy that bedtime pulls early?

My 6 month old is a chronic cat napper. Will happily take a 5 minute boob snooze or car nap, and call it good for another 2+ hours. Our typical schedule is 2/3/3/3.5 (ish) His average sleep time is 13 hours, with 11 at night, and naps are 50, 30 and 30 minutes. We always start the day at 8, and bedtime is generally 8:30 (with 1-2 feeds in the middle of the night). However, sometimes we end up with a really crappy nap day, and end up at the end of our last wake window at 7 or 7:30, which puts us at a 13 hour night. I know we shouldn’t expect babies to sleep longer than 11-12 hours at night, but what do we do if naps mean that all of the wake time is earlier in the day?

Also is this an appropriate schedule for his age?

My 16 week old has been totally reliant on contact napping in order to get virtually any daytime sleep. When transferring is successful she wakes in just a few minutes. I want to start sleep training but don’t understand how to let her cry for an allotted amount of time if she won’t even go into the bassinet without waking. When I put her down “drowsy” or the closest I can achieve to that she just lays there. No crying but no progress toward sleep. Any recommendations on how to proceed? She’s at a nanny share now so it’s extremely difficult for the nanny to support her getting any naps. Today she slept 1.5hrs during my full work day…. I should add she gets 11 hours at night, but this still doesn’t seem like enough.

My 2yrs old toddler will wake up every night from sleep around midnight and cry out. We have tried comforting him and be easy on him, but eventually we give in and bring him to bed with us. And then he sleep’s peacefully. But this has been going on for more than 2 months and I’m just so tired of it.
We can’t really understand the reason behind the crying.

Hi all,

My baby is 13 weeks old. Up until this last week, she was a champion sleeper and had a very happy disposition. With the exception of an occasional bump here or there, an easy baby all around. She is EBF but at night since she was about a month old would give a stretch of sleep from around 10-4:30 or so. For about a week now, she has been waking up multiple times a night. It isn’t always to eat but sometimes just wakes up unsettled and requires a pacifier or something else to go back down. She is also now extremely fussy during the day. If I set her down at all she cries which she has never done before. Even being held in certain positions will now make her cry. She will also often wake up from naps crying which she also never did before. She just generally seems much less content and happy. Her naps are still all over the place which they have been for a bit. Could this be an early 4 month sleep regression? Or other thoughts or similar experiences?? For some other context, we stopped swaddling about 2 weeks ago but she seemed to adjust ok. I am thinking maybe getting less sleep at night is making her more fussy? Or maybe it’s all just developmental?

Posted about a month ago and her schedule has since changed along with habits. Took away the binkies completely and first night, she slept great. However, now she cannot fall asleep on her own. Either my husband or I have to lie on the floor next to her until she falls asleep and we sneak out. Occasionally she will wake in the middle of the night and we go back in and she’s usually back asleep in 5 mins or so and we leave again.
The MOTN party time has stopped but now we’re stuck in a cycle of having to lay next to her or go back in to get her to fall asleep. She lays down around 8-8:15 and is usually asleep by 9, sometimes earlier, depends on what she does that day. We wake her up by 7:30 if she hasn’t woke up on her own. Naps are around an hour and 45 mins.

It doesn’t seem like the schedule is a problem now but in order to keep her in her bed and not get up, we’ve resorted to laying on the floor and getting stuck in her room until she falls asleep. We tried the first couple days to just do check ins and she threw up from crying so hard 🫠 is this our life for the foreseeable future or has anyone gone through this and found something that worked?

We were intending to start sleep training our almost 5mo old daughter last week and—surprise! She started teething and a tooth has already emerged. Tough, but short lasting.
But then she figured out how roll back to tummy, but has promptly forgotten how to roll tummy to back as a result, and finds herself stuck on her stomach and crying for help multiple times a night.
She’s never been a great sleeper, but it’s gotten far worse in the last couple weeks. She went through her 4mo regression early, it lasted 4.5 weeks, we had a week of normalcy, and now her nights have become chaos. She goes down at 7-7:15, wakes up between 12-1 and will not transfer back to the crib. We’ve tried everything—drowsy but awake, nursed to sleep, deep sleep. At most we get 5 minutes before she’ll wake back up crying, or she’ll wake up and cry immediately upon going into the crib. Rinse and repeat for an hour and a half, usually, until we give up and cosleep until she wakes up for the day at 6:40-6:45.
My partner and I are struggling immensely from the sleep deprivation and at a loss of what else to do until we can sleep train.
Any advice or thoughts are welcome!
Daily schedule varies wildly because her naps are all over the place. Wake windows on days she’s home: 1.75/2/2.25/2.5 with total of 2.5-3 hours of daily sleep across naps. Wake windows when she’s at daycare: 2.5-3/2/2/2 with anywhere from 1.5-3 hours of daily sleep across naps.

hi i’m a first time mom to a 6 week old now. she does SO good at sleeping at nights. waking up around 3-4 hours for a diaper change / feed. my question is, as she gets older how does she learn to sleep longer?

I feel like she will ALWAYS wake up to a wet diaper.. I am curious to know if that’s something she’ll outgrow? Or if she will always wake up to her wet diapers?