Baby has never slept through the night

My Nov 24 baby hasn't and neither has my Feb 23 baby 😂😂

@Taylor you poor thing 😭😭😭 I actually wonder if I’ll ever have an 8 hour sleep again lol can’t wait for my babies first sleepover at her grandparent 🤣

Same here! I don't know if it helps but its totally normal for babies still to wake in the night at this age, and sleeping through isn't the norm. Social media def makes it seem like everyone's babies are sleeping through but most of us are still in the same boat with wake ups at this age

Mine either, she’s every 3 hours still 🙈

Late October baby here, never ever gone through the night. Every 3hrs. Breastfed. Completely normal.

Mines every two hours I’m knackered

So normal!

Mine is all over the place. Last night was the worst for weeks felt like every hour but he goes to sleep about 9, wakes midnight/1am, 3,5 and awake about 7am. I keep seeing posts of LO sleeping through but it’s not happened here. He’s also teething with 1 tooth cut And another coming and had his 16 week injections on Wednesday

Mine slept the night just once… got my hopes up and then went right back to 2-3 wakes/feeds per night. He’s formula fed too

I feel like there's so much expectation these days for babies to sleep through almost straight away! Yes of course it would be lovely but they're still so little it's so so so normal for wakes - don't be hard on yourself ❤️

We've never slept more than 3 hours at a time, and managed to regress from that. Most of our nct group have gone to 1.5- 3 hour wakes ups at 4 months regardless of how well they slept before. I dont know of any that sleep through the night at this age! Statistically only 30% of babies at 12 months sleep 'through the night' (which is actually classed scientifically as 7 hours). I think the ones on socials with the very few babies who do it, and don't even get up to eat which is very very unusual, shout the loudest and make people think its normal🙄🤦‍♀️

This reminded of a comment my partner made the other day. I said ‘I think our little girl has started the sleep regression’ (she was up every 1h sometimes less) and he answers ‘Why regression, did she ever have a good long sleeps?!?’. He is right. Maximum stretch 3.5-4.5h before but not every hour 😭😅. I just have accepted now that my baby is not a very good sleeper and go with it…not that I do not secretly envy mums with good sleeper babies 😅

It definitely is tough - but it doesn’t have to be the reality of your life. By teaching your baby independent self soothing skills, it can help your baby transition from one sleep cycle to another. Waking up at night will happen (for pretty much everyone) but if they know how to transition independently it can massively help you get longer stretches of rest yourself. I would say focus on: - setting a schedule in place - do feed once woken and not before sleep. If younger than 4 months, for bedtime can keep feed as last step in routine. - putting baby down awake Hope this helps!

@Aya that doesn’t really work with every baby : https://www.kindercare.com/content-hub/articles/2015/september/the-dr-super-sleep-series-what-is-your-babys-sleep-temperament