4 - 6 months

What can we ask them to do? At home, she puts herself to sleep in the crib about 75% of the time. She will cry for a few minutes, but typically if she’s put in the crib awake, she’ll fall asleep eventually. They rock her to sleep then transfer her, and she wakes up during the transfer. Even...

My just-turned 5-month-old has been waking every 1-2 hours each night after his first wake-up. He used to go 3-4 hours between wakes but ideally he can learn to go even longer! These last two weeks have been brutal on me and my husband. I exclusively breastfeed. Schedule: 7 AM - Wake / nurse 9...

Hello everyone. I am still struggling over here with false starts every single night and have been since baby was 8 weeks old. She is 21 weeks old (5 months old next Tuesday). Last week she gave me four days in a row of not having a false start and I naively thought we had finally made it! But...

Our 5.5m old has been an independent sleeper (95% of the time) for the past 3 months but has lately started waking up multiple times per night (when she was previously only waking to nurse 0-1 times). At the time she was on 1h30/1h40/1h45/1h45/2h windows with 4 naps lasting around 45-60 min. Her...

Last two nights LO is up C O N S T A N T L Y after falling asleep independently. Two nights ago was every 45 min - 1 hr for the entire night and last night he couldn’t even get a 15 min stretch in without waking up in screams for almost 2 straight hours. HELP?! Rough WW we follow -...

Hi all, looking for some opinions on my 5.5 month old’s sleep lately. Brief history, he was a pretty good sleeper at night until he hit the dreaded regression at 3.5 months. Naps have always been a work in progress. Since then we’ve been tweaking things and using gentle sleep training...

Second time mom here. CIO worked when nothing else did with our first. I became the biggest believer in it! Shouted it from the rooftops. Almost had a t-shirt made that said, ask me about cry it out sleep training. It saved me and my husband and countless friends we recommended it to. From the...

Hi all! Long time lurker first time poster here. I’ve read a ton in this sub and have read some of the heavy hitters (PLS, how babies sleep, cyclemam’s guide on here, etc etc etc). We have an almost 6 month old who has never been a great napper (fights them/very short) but used to do okay with...

Hi guys! My guy is nearing 4 months and has started fighting all sleep including naps, only wants to sleep in my arms. He’s waking up on every transfer to his bassinet. Last night it took 2 hours to get him down and then he was up again 3 hours later, resettled him every hour after that. I fell...

I try to get her up at 7 and sometimes she wakes up on her own but sometimes she just wants to sleep more. She cries when I try to wake her up and goes back to sleep if I leave her alone. Today in particular I wanted her to be awake at 10 so I wanted her to wake at 7, nap at 9 but she didn’t...

Started sleep training for night time 8 days ago and it's been a little rough. Baby boy was going through sleep regression and was walking hourly crying inconsolably and we just couldn't do it anymore. Now he's been waking once for a feed around 2 am but sometimes will decide to cry for quite a...

Welp, here we are at night 1 of CIO. I was not expecting us to be here, but my husband accidentally(?) did two naps CIO today, and I figured instead of confusing him, which would be unfair to him, we might as well just roll with it. For his naps he cried for 25-30 min and then slept for an hour...

Around March 6, baby girls sleep turned into a nightmare. Before she was down at 8:30 pm to 6/7 am with one or two feedings between. March 4th, we transitioned her out of the swaddle cold turkey because of rolling. All of her needs are met throughout the day and night. Now her naps are max of...

I really wanted to wait till 5 mo to sleep train. But seriously what the heck. We had a week awful stretch and I got very adamant about putting her down quite awake, and switched to 3 naps and longer wake windows. Things got ok with 2 feeds overnight. But then it went to shit again? Now she’s...

Baby is already sleep trained. We had her into a routine of in bed at 7, wakes for a feed between 2 and 5, then regardless of what time we fed her, wakes up at 7. One feed a night every night for over a month. Now she’s waking up between 12-1 every night and wanting to be fed every 2-3 hours...

This may not be the ideal space for these questions but being it has to do with sleep I’m going to try you ladies! I have 5 children N(f10), G(f9), L(m6), M (m2), Q(5 months). N&G share a room. They have been sharing since N was 4 and G was 2.5. They have been on a similar schedule being so...

How do I “extend” an independent nap? To atleast an 60-90 mins. As of right now my 22 week old Wakes up @ 7-7:30AM First nap- 9-9:30 AM Which I rock her to sleep and then I HAVE to hold her bc she wakes up within 20-25 mins (even in my arms) but is cranky within 45-60 mins if I don’t put her...

I wanted to share this in the hope that it might help someone who is going through something similar. My baby was waking every 1-2 hours at night to nurse for weeks and I was about to lose my mind until we figured it out. TLDR: (the short version!) My EBF baby J is now 5 months old. We had 2...

We sleep trained my 4.5 month old using CIO but I’m a little stumped with where we are now. We’ve gotten to a point where he does one of two things: Falls asleep without crying, but wakes up a short while later (e.g., 15 mins) and cries for 20 mins before falling asleep again. Cries for...

I started Ferber last night on my 17 week old baby boy. He has never slept in a crib always cried despite all my attempts. Here is how last night went: His daytime WW are 1.5-1.75h (together with yawning/eye rubs) with 3-4 contact naps of 0.5-1.5h for a total of 3h. Bedtime was 2h after last WW...