u/sieve_head

Posting here as the sleeptrain Reddit banned my post for not wanting to emotionally neglect my son into sleep and just full of just bragging success stories rather than help. 🙄

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Hi all, I come to you today a total sleep deprived mess. During the week I am the one who wakes for baby as my partner is up for work at 5am as he has a long commute. Weekends he will get up early and take baby downstairs so I can catch up on sleep and that works for us.

To preface my baby is 7 and a half months (but 5 and a half adjusted) and we’ve not long started baby lead weaning which has been going well. He already has his 2 bottom teeth through.

He usually napped 3 times a day for 1.5-2 hours but has very suddenly dropped to 30-45 minutes seemingly without cause.

Sleep always happens in our bedroom which we share, he’s in a crib and sleeps in a sleep sack (tog depending on temperature which we also monitor). He will be getting surgery sometime in the future (still a bit too small for it yet) and we’d like to keep him in our room to keep an eye on him afterward.

Windows are blacked out and we use a white noise machine.

He has a regular bedtime routine, in bed around 7:30-8pm, and getting him to sleep can be pretty easy but it’s starting to get more and more difficult as he fights it.

Admittedly he is rocked/held to sleep.

It’s like he doesn’t have a drowsy but awake window; he’s straight up either 100% awake or he is conked out asleep - not in between. So seeing all this “put him down drowsy but awake” is driving me nuts because if I put him down before he is out he starts whining and does not settle.

He will sleep good the first few hours and then wake around 2am for a feed. Then about 4 or 5. Then he’s up for the day at 6am. 🫠

Last night he was up every single hour.

I’ve looked into these sleep apps but they all seem extortionate for something that just tracks baby’s nap time and night awakenings.

Totally against the cry it out method.

How do we help my little one learn to self soothe? Is there something else we could be doing to improve things before they continue to spiral? 😩

Hi all, I come to you today a total sleep deprived mess. During the week I am the one who wakes for baby as my partner is up for work at 5am as he has a long commute. Weekends he will get up early and take baby downstairs so I can catch up on sleep and that works for us.

To preface my baby is 7 and a half months (but 5 and a half adjusted) and we’ve not long started baby lead weaning which has been going well. He already has his 2 bottom teeth through.

He usually napped 3 times a day for 1.5-2 hours but has very suddenly dropped to 30-45 minutes seemingly without cause.

Sleep always happens in our bedroom which we share, he’s in a crib and sleeps in a sleep sack (tog depending on temperature which we also monitor). He will be getting surgery sometime in the future (still a bit too small for it yet) and we’d like to keep him in our room to keep an eye on him afterward.

Windows are blacked out and we use a white noise machine.

He has a regular bedtime routine, in bed around 7:30-8pm, and getting him to sleep can be pretty easy but it’s starting to get more and more difficult as he fights it.

Admittedly he is rocked/held to sleep.

It’s like he doesn’t have a drowsy but awake window; he’s straight up either 100% awake or he is conked out asleep - not in between. So seeing all this “put him down drowsy but awake” is driving me nuts because if I put him down before he is out he starts whining and does not settle.

He will sleep good the first few hours and then wake around 2am for a feed. Then about 4 or 5. Then he’s up for the day at 6am. 🫠

Last night he was up every single hour.

I’ve looked into these sleep apps but they all seem extortionate for something that just tracks baby’s nap time and night awakenings.

Totally against the cry it out method.

How do we help my little one learn to self soothe? Is there something else we could be doing to improve things before they continue to spiral? 😩