Baby Sleep

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How often should you change a nappy?

Hi all, My little boy is 8 days old and for the past few days it feels like all I’m doing is changing nappies. This morning, we’ve done 4 changes one after another and wondering if I’m doing something wrong? But the issue is that he screams every time he soils himself so obviously can’t leave him in a dirty nappy ...

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Bad sleeper.. any advice would be great

Hey! My LO is 7 months old on Friday (Valentine’s Day) and my gosh, had the worst night sleep with her last night. 6 times I think I counted she woke in the end.. she used to be a brilliant sleeper, only wake once a night then since she hit 3 months it all went to pot! She wakes very frequently every night, just wo...

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How many of you co sleep?

I’ve read “baby sleeps though the night” - but baby is often in the parents bed and not in their own cot or room?

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Wake windows - True or made up?

So I follow a sleep expert. She states that newborns should not be awake any more than 45 to 60 minutes or they will get fussy. My newborn can be awake happily over 2 hours just looking around. I followed wake windows from 3 months with my 1st born and it did seem to fit what she said, but 2nd baby totally different...

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30 minute nap help!

My LB is 9 month old and is currently supposed to be having 2 naps a day. If I put him down in his own bed he will only have a 30 minute nap (and I mean, 30 minutes down to the absolute second!!) or if he naps on me he’s been having 45-1 hour naps maximum, but because the naps are so short it messes up the entire da...

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4 to 3 naps

How old were your babies when they went down to 3 naps. Feel like the time has come and he’s still on 30min naps. And he is 6months Photo cause he’s cute and that. My little Elton John 😂

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How are we getting babies to sleep?

My friend visited yesterday and was in absolute shock that I put my LG in Moses basket and rock her to sleep. Sometimes she even puts herself to sleep without the need of rocking.. apparently when her baby was little she had to fall asleep in her arms and would always wake when putting her down 🙈 this is the only…

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Tummy time

Hey all, my babies are 5.5 weeks old and I’m trying to do tummy time as much as I can with them. However, they’re rarely awake. They’re only awake to have a feed and then they go back to sleep, when do you all do tummy time with your babies? Or can you recommend me to do anything?

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Screaming

Does anyone else’s baby do/have done this? My baby is 14 weeks. Recently her feeding has been so hard. She’ll drink her first bottle fine but when she’s ready for another one she just screams and cries and doesn’t take it until she falls asleep. She naps for about 2 hours so can go about 4-5 hours since her last bo...

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One or two naps a day?

My baby is 10.5 months old and has been fighting naps since before Christmas. I tried 1 nap yesterday she was so much better at going down. I am not sure if we should continue this or not as her wake window would be much longer than they recommend

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Night wakes

Anyone else get angry or annoyed when their little one wakes up during the night for absolutely no reason and just won’t go back to sleep? My little girl had me up from 1:30am till 4am last night and I feel awful for getting mad at her but I’m running on maybe 6 hours of sleep over 2 nights and I’m just beyond exh...

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Too much sleep in the day?

Baby is 3 months. He's been sleeping a lot in the day (2+ hr naps) and I wonder if he slept less in the day he'd sleep better at night. At the moment we don't really have a routine, he sleeps when he sleeps and he is awake when he is awake. Is there a thing as too much sleep in the day? Should I be waking baby up?

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Whos baby falls asleep on the bottle?

Aside from everything that says not to - I sometimes find it impossible for it not to happen especially if nap was short!

Incognito
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waking up every hour at night!

hey mammas! I need help, I think I am losing my mind. my son is waking up every hour at night and asking for boobie. It’s been going on almost for 3+ weeks I don’t remember exactly, all days and nights feels the same. what do you think it might be? first few days I thought it might be sleep regression but can It las...

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Dummy

Any tips for weening baby off dummy?! 🫠

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8 week old day naps

What’s everyone doing? My little one will currently only sleep on the move in the pram or carrier, and in the house it’s on me or bust. He can be fast asleep with all the same cues as his evening sleep but his eyes pop open as soon as he goes down, whether that’s in his moses or next to me. Nighttime sleep is ac...

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