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Transfer unsuccessful

Let's be honest, transferring is hardly ever successful. But how are all you people getting your babies to sleep in their own sleep space. My baby just screams when I put him down and I have tried everything. I've been trying for the last few hours to get him in his crib and he just wants to sleep on me and I'm ex...

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Is it okay to leave my 1 year old sleeping at bedtime alone in the house to go for a 10 min mental health walk ?

He sleeps for 12 hrs never wakes up at the night sometimes I want to got for a walk while he’s sleeping but i don’t know if that is even okay to do while My husband is at work ? I’d FaceTime on the iPad so I can hear and speak to him if he were to wake up and obviously not go further than 15 mins away in total ? Is...

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How often is your baby waking up during the night?

My baby will be 4 weeks on Saturday. She has been going down at 11pm and then going 3 hours stints, however recently she will just not go down at night! She sleeps well during the day and in her Moses basket, but it gets to 11pm and she just becomes really fussy and if I put her in the Moses basket she wakes up wi...

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Moving Baby into nursery

Hey all 👋 just looking for some different opinions here. LO is 6 weeks tomorrow and so far we’ve had her in a bedside bassinet. She sleeps pretty good, obviously every night is different but we do typically get 3-4 hour stretches. However, she’s super noisy— grunting, sighing, squirming ALL night long (pedi says…

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Night feeds

Hi all in general what are your lo night wake ups for feeds like. My 11 week old wakes up every 3 hours & someone said to me he shouldn’t be up as much so it’s got me thinking am I doing something wrong??

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Why our day time naps so short? 🫠

My little girl is 10 weeks and she sleeps through the night 6-7hrs has a feed while still half asleep and go down for another 2-3hrs before she fully wakes up. For the life of me I cannot get her to nap for longer than 40minutes, usually it’s 30 or under, but it’s like she has an alarm for 30mins and she’s up. Her w...

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Stressed out

At what age do kids stop breaking things? Just bought $80 curtains last month for my daughters new room and both my girls done ripped the rod out of the wall! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Sleeping through

Has anyone else’s little ones started to sleep through, this is the third night my nearly 8 week old has sleep from 11:30ish until 6am, don’t want to get excited but is this the light at the end of a tunnel. Only concern is my milk supply, should I still set an alarm to pump incase this suddenly stops or enjoy the r...

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Own room unsettled

My 6 month old has been awake during the night for up to 3 hours at a time. The health visitor suggested putting her in her own room as it may be us that are now keeping her awake. She has been napping in her cot in her own room for quite a while so is familiar with the space. Last night was the first night, she wen...

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Sleep training a 7.5 month old

I honesty cannot do these nights anymore. It’s 4:34, I’m sat sobbing at the side of the cot where I’ve been for 2 hours now while our girl whinges to be picked up like she does every single night. Shes never slept. She wakes up between 10 and 20 times from when she is put down at 7:30 to when she breaks me and I bri...

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Help

Hey guys, the last few days my 11 months old has been crying so much and in his sleep, he wakes up crying and his breathing sounds a little weird as well even during his naps while I’m at work my mother-in-law watches him and she says that he still wakes up, screaming, and crying and also is breathing weirdany advic...

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Moving baby to own room?

My boy is 4.5 months old and nearly outgrown his next to me, which I think is affecting his sleep (he wakes multiple times in the night). My partner thinks we should move him to the big cot in the nursery but I’m nervous as I always anticipated he would move at 6 months old. He can’t roll either way yet, and I fin...

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Tummy Sleeping

Is it okay for LO to sleep on me on their stomach? I know safe sleeping says on their back but during a contact nap (where I’m fully awake) can they be on their tummy?

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Sleep through the night help!

No matter what I do, my baby will not sleep through the night! He’s formula fed. We’ve sleep trained, but has always needed 1-2 feeds throughout the night no matter how much we tried to sleep train him through that. We also have tried weaning him off which just makes him wake up more frequent to drink more. We’ve tr...

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4 month sleep regression

Hello September moms! I am a mom from end of October. I know you have already gone through the 4 month regression, but I was wondering if you have any tips for getting through it and how long it lasted for you?! I am struggling hard over here so just wanted to look for any input snd find out how long you went throu...

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Bedtime false starts

Is anyone else experiencing ‘false starts’ every time their LO goes to bed for the night? My baby is waking every 20 minutes or so and needing resettling every evening for a good few hours no matter what we try. Any tips on how to stop it? Or does anyone deal with similar? Will it end?! - wake window is on avera...

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