Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby Sleep

Would a cot bed frame hold me if I was to get in there with my son? I’m unable to go into mine and partners bed as he is really ill atm so sleeping on sofa or the floor of my boys room. If I was to get into his cot, would it hold me? I don’t want it breaking but he likes me as his comfort.

Over the past week, my LO’s naps have went from 2 hours long (give or take) to now not sleeping over 30 minutes. Every nap without fail, is 30 minutes or less. He hasn’t slept over 30 minutes in about 4 days. He is SO cranky and over tired… I don’t know how to get him out of this rut.. any help appreciated 🙃

We moved my LO when she was around 6 months to the cot because she was getting slightly too big for her noses basket, she kept waking herself up in the cot so moved her back to the Moses basket. But she’s 8 months now and had completely outgrown the Moses basket. I put her in the cot yesterday but she woke up every ...

We are struggling with daytime naps with LO ( 10 weeks old), so she will only sleep in mine or my husband arms in the day and it’s a whole mission! We have to have white noise on, rocking her, tapping her bum and shh her continually in order to get her to sleep. When she is finally sleeping, sometimes she will onl...

Please can I have some guidance where to find the best floor bed/Montessori bed with high rails so my boy cant climb out and where’s best to look for mattresses as they have to be a certain firmness don’t they for babies and toddler sleep? I will be cosleeping with him from now on.

My son is almost 2 months old. I've always put him his back, but he always seems to want to sleep on his side. What can I do?

He’s wearing a vest baby grow and a 2.5 tog sleep bag but I swear he’s waking up because he’s cold. His body feels nice and warm but his arms and face feel cold. I’ve been putting him in with me when I think he’s cold and he goes back off to sleep until morning but it’s killing my back/neck 😭 is he cold or is it a…

My 9 week old keeps having an actual wake window that lasts up to about 90 mins at 1/2am 🫠 We do all of the suggested things such as not interacting with her during her bottle, keeping room dark, white noise etc Is anyone else experiencing this? How do I help it, it's draining me 😅

We’re almost 12 weeks here and for the past 13 days, she’s been waking up every 3-4 hours at night to feed, she will take her normal full size bottles and we’re really at a loss now and low optimism on how long this is going to last. Our previous growth spurts - she’d eat at night for few days and then would get bac...

How are you dealing with unsolicited advice? I usually either brush it off, argue my case or use it as a teaching moment for ppl who are just clueless. But yesterday it all got too much because someone who knows not to, kissed my baby and others commented on her contact napping and I just LOST my shit 😅 Some of…

I have driven when she's fed, clean and due to sleep sbe must cries. Normally she feeds or rock to sleep currently. We don't often drive far for her to nap in the car at the moment but I've drove to my parents house for the weekend (2 hours) and back today and she just gets so worked up. Tried white noise, differen...

Are people changing their LOs nappy before each feed during the day as well as at night?

My newborn is cluster feeding at the moment. He’s 25 days . during the day he wants feeding roughly every hour. he feeds and then falls asleep in my arms and then I transfer him to his crib. It feels like he’s restless in his crib and he wakes up within an hour wanting more. The nights are far more difficult. last n...

I have a 19 month old and his sleep has gone to pot in the last few weeks, and it was bad to begin with. I still feed on demand and to sleep. We also co-sleep. However he is now fighting his naps and his nighttime bedtime. Last night, it took four hours to get him down and he eventually slept at 11pm, despite waki...

I’ve been trying to put my LO down drowsy but awake as has been waking up to be rocked to sleep every hour from 12.30am in the night. It worked once but has not worked again. Wakes up fully when put down, if calm I leave him to figure it out but pick up and calm him down if crying. This leads him to a wake window wh...

Is anyone elses 16 month old refusing to nap? He definitely isn’t ready to drop it because he will go so tired at around about 4pm if he doesn’t have one but all he does is play in his cot and refuse to sleep even though he’s absolutely shattered. We had the same battle yesterday and he didn’t have one but we put h...

We’ve been going through a sleep regression however, we seem to have managed to cut the crying etc out but taking her so long to fall asleep at night. She’s always been like this with the odd time of it taking only half an hour for her to fall asleep. It’s getting to the point I’m getting so frustrated because I’m...

Baby’s currently 12 weeks old and we are staying at my partners mums at nye and I’m dreading it because idk how baby will sleep in a new environment and also in her pram as we can’t take her next to me unfortunately. So we’ve been doing the same routine for weeks and she’s been sleeping through the night since about...

Anyone else in the same situation and just exhausted!!

My LO almost slept for 4-5 hours at a stretch until last month. For past couple of weeks LO has started waking up almost every hour, wants a little feed, and last night couldn’t sleep at all without being held in arms. Why is the baby craving contact sleep at this stage? Any recommendations? For reference, LO is t...