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Outgrowing bassinet

Hi all. My son is 11 weeks old and has almost outgrown the bassinet for his pram. We have the Oyster 3. He’s a long boy and is almost reaching the top of the bassinet but he just seems too small for the stroller😭 has anyone else had this issue? Picture for reference - this was 2 weeks ago so I’ll be lucky if he’s…

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Feeding and Sleep....help🙏

This might be a long one but im looking for advice, guidance or what you'se do. Anything! I'll start by saying my little boy is coming up for 7 months in a weeks time. I give him porridge or a fruit puree in the morning as well as his bottle then the rest of the day is bottles with either some of a puree jar at dinn...

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Poor sleep

It hard to watch your kids struggle with sleep every night. I’ve been sitting in my kids room for almost 3 hours while they flop on the bed and get up and lay down and roll around there bed and talk to themselves. We have tried melatonin and it does help them relax it’s always the same issue. They wake up between 12...

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How many naps for 18 month old

Hello, I'm just wondering how many naps you're 18 month old is having and for how long.

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Anyone else?

Anyone else’s May baby just stopped sleeping through the last 6-8 weeks?! I can’t work it out 🤦🏻‍♀️ tried all sorts of variations of naps bedtimes and wake windows but nope just lays there shouting and/or calling for mommy/mommy cuddles which I naturally do not have the heart to ignore and also they just get louder🤣

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Transition to bed now my toddler keeps waking

Can anyone please help my toddler has always slept through since 4 months old when he turned 3 we changed his cot into a bed and picked all super hero bedding and he loved it but now he keeps waking screaming for me at his baby gate at 3am we take him back to bed but he'd takes 2 hours to settle me and my partner Ar...

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Sleeping at night.

How long is your little one sleeping for during the night?? My little one has never been the best sleeper but these last two weeks have had zero sleep.

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Sleep regression

Lord help me lol is there some kind of sleep regression near 1 because I’m about to return to work and I’m having to pat her so much in the night or console her atm 😭😭😭😭

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My baby won’t sleep- HELP 😴

Hi, My nearly 7month old boy was a great sleeper for the first 3.5 months then it all went down hill. I Co-slept with him as I was EBF so it was easy to feed him lying down and go back to sleep but I think I’ve made a rod for my own back as I honestly couldn’t count how many times a night he wakes up now. Sometime...

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How long do you cuddle baby for before bedtime?

Ever since we hit 18 mos, it's been regression galore! Whatever happened!? I am drained out by 9 pm and every minute is a drag. I cuddle with my toddler for 10 minutes before putting into the bedside crib. Some days are alright but on days we miss nap time, it's ultra hands on. Clingy is an understatement. How l...

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Any tips?

Baby bedtime is about 7.30pm and wakes between 5 and 5.30am. Her fiest wake window is 2-2 5 hours. Any tips on getting LO to sleep and extra hour in the morning ???

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Anyone else baby having a hard time sleeping at night? But only sleeps on mama or dadas chest?

My now 1 month old today LO started about yesterday just want to sleep on my fiancé and I chest? When we try putting her to sleep in her bassinet she’ll wake up and start crying? Onces she is on our chest she sleeps? We haven’t gotten any sleep because all she wants to do is just sleep on our chest. My daughter neve...

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Best nappies for during the night

My little girl is starting to sleep through the night and I'm just wondering the best suggestions for nappies to keep her dry without any leaks ☺️

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Wake window

Talking to a sleep consultant last night and she said my son's sleep is 💩 because his wake window is to long. So he was great self settled up once back to sleep no problem. Then he got ill so had to be on with us now having to get him back to sleeping in his bed without us and going to bed to settle is a struggle…

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Help! Sleep consultants

Has anyone tried a sleep consultant that has genuinely helped your LO sleep through? Can you recommend me to one that doesn’t just make you cry it out. My LO is 10 months and her sleeping is awful. She wakes up 4-5 times in the night either wanting to be rocked or given the breast. I’m sooooo tired and go back to ...

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Is it a big deal?

Baby wakes around 530/6am and has bottle. I aim to give her breakfast for 8 (which i have written on our shared board for her routine). For some reason, by partner still insists on giving it to her at 7.15 (which is an hiur or less after she's had her first bottle). Will this it a big deal to her routine consistenc...

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For those who can't sleep train - good sleep will come

First off, just wanted to say this is not a sleep training bashing post. Each to their own and if you are happy doing it then thats great and I hope you are getting some well deserved rest as a result. I just wanted to put it out there for those mums like me who couldn't sleep train their baby (trust me I've had m...

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Legs stuck in cot

Hey! Our little lad has recently started shoving his feet and legs through his cot bars and is getting stuck and waking up screaming and crying! Is there a way we can prevent this or anything we can buy? 😅 we all need our sleep 😂

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I don’t want any suggestions and I don’t want advice. If you relate, thank you and my heart goes out to you but if you don’t move along

I’m going to probably come across rude right now because of how annoyed I am. All my baby does every night is cry. She doesn’t wine she only screams. She screams at midnight and she gets up from 4-6 and screams more. I refuse to get up with her for morning before 6am so I spend the entire time awake trying to give h...

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Co-sleeping with 19 month old

Hi ladies, Just wondered if others are still having sleep struggles at night? I feel like such a failure that he’s not doing full nights in his bed. He goes down no problem but then wakes 2-3 hours later wanting me and then won’t settle until we cosleep. Once we do he sleeps well. We’ve had some really positive nig...

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