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Anyone else’s baby just not sleep the best?

He usually doesn’t decent amount when he first goes down to sleep… he usually does 4 hour block when first put down, then after that he’s up every 1 to 2 hours, and it takes me sooo long to fall back to sleep so I think I probably get about half an hour on each sleep apart from the 4 hour one… I’m absolutely exhausted😴 sometimes he wakes up out of hunger I think, the first and maybe a second time but other times I rock him to sleep and he goes back to sleep but won’t self settle independently, not really sure how to help him do this? Anyone else’s baby like this? Any tips? Is there something I could be doing to help him sleep longer stretches? He’s 19 weeks.. I’m just trying to survive at this point on no energy😂

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I am in the same boat. It’s really exhausting 😓

Do you go to him straight away? If so, if he's not crying you could leave him a while to give him the chance to practice falling asleep by himself.

@Jessy so tiring isn’t it😩

@Tanya I try to leave him until he starts crying, he doesn’t usually last long before he starts crying, I’m not really sure how to help him settle independently it’s tough

We’re in the same boat. My baby doesn’t self settle. I’m not stressing about it as he’s still little (5 months) so still needs me to help settle him either through rocking and or feeding (EBF) him back to sleep. We’ve had some rocky nights the past few weeks and I think trying to teach him to self settle would just be more distressing for everyone involved so I just do what he needs me to do right now. Just keep telling myself these things will come in time but we’re very much surviving not thriving in the nights right now 😅

We’re just coming out of this brutal bit. It was just over 2 weeks for us and now he’s getting 4 hours after that first chunk of sleep. I try settling him without picking him up, it took about 5 mins of me patting, shushing and singing twinkle twinkle so get him to settle down but it did work. I also didn’t offer breast unless it had been over 4 hours. It’s totally normal and it will end soon, you got this!

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