Constant wakening up
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@Abbie oh no 🤦♀️ 😢 it's a nightmare! She used to be a good sleeper as well !
Same no tips but living this at the moment I feel your pain
No tips but we are experiencing the same. We used to have 8 hour stretches of sleep, but she is now waking up 7/8 times a night and won't settle.
It’s so frustrating isnt it! I wouldn’t mind if they were hungry or needed something but the fact they are falling instantly back to sleep hurts 😫😂x
We had a good few weeks of this and he's still like it for naps. I know it's controversial and I never thought we'd do it but honestly was desperate we were ill at the same time so we left him watching in the baby monitor to grumble and even cry just once a night for 3 nights and now he's sleeping so much better and self settling without getting upset at least once a night. He still needs help at his 5am ish wake up but since he's ok on his own until then I count it as a massive win. If he sees me he cries to be picked up still but if I just watch him on the monitor he quietly tosses and turns and is back asleep in 10 mins
Mine does the exact same thing atm I don’t know if it’s due to teething but they do say they go through a regression at this stage
@Flo this has crossed my mind and whether to try some light sleep training. This change coincides with my LG going into her own room, so I think she is adjusting to being on her own when she wakes up overnight.
Same! Our son has never been a good sleeper but this is like back to square one again. We’ve already had to lift our son out the cot this evening 🥲 and of course he fell asleep again immediately. This round of frequent waking ups has been going on for a couple weeks now and on a few occasions it seems to have been teething pain because we gave our son some bonjela and he settled.
@Angela if it started when he went into his own room I wouldn't have done it but he was even worse in his next to me.... In his own he's fine he's woken once tonight already but settled himself in 3 minutes I know if I'd have gone in it would have been at least 20 mins. No harm in some sleep training as long as you know they are ok it's not teething pain or hungry etc. we had also started more of a feeding routine which we didn't have before we were all on demand so that has in turn changed his naps a bit so it's all helped I think. It could just be coincidence and go to pot next week let's see...
@Flo yeah I think sometimes they just need a little help and left to try and settle themselves. How did you adjust the feeding to have more of a routine from on demand?
Same boat. I hate to say it but Calpol. I find if I can't put my finger on a cause it's often teething pain
Everyone's comments honestly makes me feel so much better! I was worried it was something we were doing but seems like it's probably the 6 month regression! So frustrating and tiring!
@Louise yes we've tried this a few nights as we were worried it was teething pain, although her gums look fine and there's no teeth yet but she keeps getting the symptoms of teething!
@Flo by 5am ours needs a lot of help getting back to sleep too, I've resulted kicking the husband out the bed and bringing baby in just to try get an extra hours sleep doesn't always work!
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Tonight is once again horrific. She’s in the room with me and is going roughly 17-20 minutes now. Dummies flying out of the cot. Tossing and turning. Absolutely sick of this.
@Hayley yeah I'm struggling tonight too, it's honestly so tough.
I’m sat here crying. She’s yelling. I’ve had enough of this. 6 months and no sign of stopping.
@Hayley aw it's honestly the hardest job and it's so lonely being awake through the night. Do you have a partner who can take over tongiht to let you sleep?
I spoke too soon always the way if you think you've figured it out the next night is the worst....
@Flo honestly, I find it comforting we all seem to be going through this together. Genuinely thought it was something I was doing but deffos sounds like regression
I had my mum offer to help but she would have just held her. I’m up again now & gave given her a bottle.
We are awake just now giving a feed, 5th time awake since 10pm. Tonight LG isn't very well, so have given calpol, but that is always such a battle to give to her. She works herself up and takes so long to settle again.
Can anyone give me tips to try and self soothe at all my partner is getting frustrated with it and we are both so tired I don't like to leave him to cry because we live with my parents and I don't want to wake them I'm just at a loose end right now
@Hayley @Angela seems like all our babies are wakening up roughly the same times & frequency! This is exhausting
And I sleep trained from the 22nd Sep and it didn’t work 😳
No tips but in the same boat 😫