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Help - first time mum

Hello, first time mum and born yesterday. She sleeps all through the day but is just screaming throughout the night, she won’t latch (only for like 5 mins a day) - any suggestions?

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Help

My baby is 5 months old and she’s starting to scoot and roll, I bedshare and it’s starting to make me nervous. I’ve tried keeping her asleep in her crib or playpen but it only lasts for about 10-15 minutes before she wakes up Any tips? First time mom

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What could it be ?

My baby keeps putting her hands in her mouth and when she sleeps she keeps waking up and being fussy

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One very tired mummy

This past week has been so hard, I am exclusively breast feeding and baby has been up every night for hours on end wanting feeding/comfort. I am absolutely exhausted and I just can’t see the end goal of a few hours a night in sight. Please help

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1-year review and HV says sleep train

I’m left really torn after our 1-year review as HV was adamant that I sleep train LO who is 10 mo because I told her how he wakes up 5-6 times a night to the point that I co-sleep. Co-sleeping doesn’t guarantee enough sleep though as 7/10 nights he’ll be waking up and needing help to relatch (as I’ve got small breas...

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Send help and sleep

4 days post partum and I've had less than 8 hours sleep since Monday. LO is fine in the day, sleeps in her moses basket, wakes for nappy and feed etc but the last night, she will NOT settle. I've had her on me for hours whilst I've sent my partner to sleep so that I can try and get my first sleep stint in tomorrow (...

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Parenting style

Does anyone have a drastically different parenting style to their partner? I’m very much a feed on demand, contact naps and cuddles type of mum; I feel like it physically pains me to hear baby cry. However my partner seems happy to let baby cry it out for in her crib if he’s trying to get her to nap, I honestly hate...

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Does your partner help at night?

Our baby is now nearly 10 weeks old and wakes up between 1-2 times through the night. When she does wake up, she is HANGRY, so she likes to scream the house down until she’s fed. During his paternity leave, my partner would help in the night by getting up to make the bottle and then would go back to bed whilst I fed...

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Leaving baby to it

Hi guys, my 1 month old is wide awake at night after feeding. I feel guilty putting him back in the next to me when he’s awake and not attending to him but i need my sleep 😴 should I be entertaining him m?

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Advice pls

My 6 week old daughter has started waking up at 4-5am and not going back to sleep for up to 3-4hrs and im finding it hard as my sleeping pattern is messed up and I can’t sleep until after 2am 😭 I don’t know how to get her out of the habit, she goes back to sleep after most bottles except that one

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How long do your babies sleep between feedings during night time?

My lo is asking for feeding every 2-3 h during night time and she is 10 weeks 🥲 I keep hearing around babies at this age sleep almost all night but I still keep waking up every 2 h .. Am I the only one?

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Frequent waking

In the last 3 weeks my little boy wakes frequently throughout the night however he doesn’t fully wake up, I pop the dummy back in & generally goes back to sleep however it’s every 1-2 hours! It’s not every night, I put it down to teething but it can’t still be that 3 weeks on, just wondered if anyone else has experi...

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Normal sleep?

Does anyone else’s baby sleep like this? I know movement is normal; It’s just the rapid movements and thrashing of head

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Should i still be waking to feed overnight ???

5 weeks old and over birth weight. Feeding well in day plenty of wet dirty nappies. Nobody ever told me to stop waking overnight, but friends have told me that they have been told to stop when over birth weight by midwives etc. I want to sleep longer lol but will do what’s best for baby

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Completely cut out caffeine…probably should have done it sooner.

My LO is 4.5 months old and is EBF. Starbucks Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso has a chokehold on me. I would get a 1/2 caf once in a while and would notice, without fail, my LO would be a fuss bucket the next day. So I was just drinking one cup of chai in the morning since it was a more mellow caffeine (from wha...

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Sleeping in next to me cot

I am trying to transition my baby boy from our bed into his next to me cot. As much as I LOVE the cuddles, I just want to sleep knowing he's not in there with us. I've started cuddling him and doing a little routine with him and he goes in his cot for around 30 minutes before waking. My question is, what do I do w...

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night feeds

how many bottles is your 12 month old on through the night? trying to ween my LO off them but he’s still waking up multiple times. How did people manage once completely onto cows milk? as he’s just starting drinking this too ☺️ thank you

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18 day old won't sleep

I'm exhausted I feel I can't do this anymore 😞 My 18 day old has all of a sudden changed and is refusing to nap in the day. She tired herself out and was sleeping in the night but she's decided to not take her next nap. I've done everything and she's wide awake, I don't know what to do at this point and there's…

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Help baby waking up at 4/5am

What do I do! It’s breaking my body. She wakes up between 4 & 5 am and will sometimes go back to sleep for got 30mins and it’s breaking me. How do I adjust it to get her to sleep till 7?!!

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Increase in dirty nappies

Has anyone seen an increase in dirty nappies ? My LO used to go every other day but since food it's been every day however it's now gone to twice a day

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