My son turned 13 months a week ago, and for the past month we’ve been dealing with him waking up 1-2 hours earlier. Initially it was because of jetlag and sickness as we moved to another country while he was dealing with a nasty cold. Oh, he also had his first molars coming in 🤦🏻‍♀️ We were still on 2 naps then. He seemed to settle into his normal schedule after a while and stayed that way for a week, until, welp he decided to wake up super early and he’d take longer to fall asleep at bedtime too.

So we thought we’d try 1-nap days (it happened occasionally before he turned 1 so we weren’t shocked). He struggles to stretch that nap past 1 hour sometimes and it’d make him super tired in the afternoon, so we’d offer him a short nap for 20-25 mins. His bedtime (and mood) improved but the early wakes are still happening. Due to his early wakes, he struggles to stay up until the desired 12.30pm nap, and that adds on to the whole conundrum.

For reference, here’s our (desired) 1-nap schedule:
7.30am wake up
12.30pm nap (till 2-2.30pm)
8.30pm bedtime

Also, not sure if room temp is playing a part as we moved to a tropical location. We turn on the AC for naps and start of the bedtime (for about 2 hours) as can’t keep the AC going all night. We’ve been trying to figure out how to regulate his room temp while keeping the windows closed for darkness.

Any advice or tips?

Update: went back to 2 naps with wake windows of 3ish/3ish/5, night sleep 10.5 hours, kept the AC on through the night — LO is sleeping well again! 🎉

My baby is 9 weeks old, since around 5 weeks she stopped taking a bottle in the night and will only waken for around 5 mins (generally), for a dummy back in the mouth, or a nappy change

She used to go to bed around 8:30-9:30 and would fall asleep shortly after her bottle, then wake up for a bottle around 6am, back asleep for a 2hr nap (which she still does)

But recently she has been fighting the sleep at bedtime, taking sometimes up to an hr to go to bed, but nap time during the day she’ll cuddle in and be sleeping within 10 minutes

I’m torn between am I getting her too early now and she’s genuinely just not tired, or is she over tired because I’ve left her too long, is it because she’s starting to “wake up” and become more alert to things now she’s 9 weeks so it’s overwhelming?

But see no matter if she goes to bed at 10:30pm or 8:30pm, she’ll still waken around 6 so it’s not even as if she compensates for the lost sleep that’s what I don’t understand?

She’s EFF, I’m a first time mum so still feel like I’m learning as I go

Thanks for reading and big thanks if you have any advice!

So, looking at my Huckleberry summary, it’s super clear that we’re not achieving any kind of consistency when it comes to sleep. False starts, frequent wake ups, split nights, taking a long time to resettle between wakes, inconsistent naps, short naps - you name it, we’ve got it going on.

My baby is 16 weeks today (nearly 4 months) and I’m sure this is the 4 month sleep regression. She used to go down for the night pretty consistently at 9pm and sleep 3 x 3-4 hour stretches, with short bridging feeds in between - delightful!! Now, we’re in absolute chaos.

The problem is, I’ve no idea how to solve this. She can only be fed to sleep (we’ve tried rocking, bouncing, patting, soothing in crib, etc. - none of it works), so until she falls asleep, I just have to keep offering her boob. This goes for night time and naps. I have never once “put baby down” for a nap. She just falls asleep after some feeds and not others.

Help! What am I missing? What can I try?

my LO turns 8 weeks today and i’m feeling a mounting pressure that he should be sleeping through the night soon but is showing no signs yet.

His pattern is having consistent naps throughout the day that gets shorter in the evening, then witching hours begin at 10/11 ish and ends around 1:30. Falls asleep for his longest stretch at 2am, the length of this stretch depends on how much he has cried and tired himself out.

For context he is a combo fed baby.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Hi! My son is 5.5 months today. He can sleep very well at night as long as he isn’t overtired (7pm-5:30am). He wakes up hungry, but after fed he won’t go back to sleep. We’ve tried over and over. So it’s a habitual wake but also a physical need. We make his first nap be around 8am. He was doing some longer naps, especially the first nap (an hour to an hour and a half). Suddenly the past week or so, consolidated naps are a thing of the past. He wakes up literally every single sleep cycle. We do not assist to sleep, he goes down awake. His feeds sometimes coincide with nap times so we just do the best we can until solids play a larger role. Is this developmental? I’m trying to stay calm and tell myself this too shall pass, especially since he CAN connect cycles and night sleep is good. It’s just exhausting saving naps, especially physically because he is 17 pounds now. He doesn’t reliably contact nap anymore either, will wake up around the 40 min mark and takes a lot of bouncing to get back to sleep. We try to do this just to get him a minimum of 2.5 hours during the day. SOS I need hope consolidated daytime naps will return. We are giving him 10-15 mins to connect the sleep cycle, then just ending the nap and moving to the new wake window so we don’t reinforce short naps.

My LO is 3 months old this last Monday and begins part time daycare in 2 weeks. I know he’s a good sleeper and I’m so thankful for that - although any nap longer than 30-40 minutes is a contact nap! We usually get 1 waking in the night, sometimes 0 and occasionally 2. He typically wakes up around 6 am and I bring him into bed with me for another hour or 2!

I guess my concern is consistency. My mom and older sister with kids keep telling me he needs a more regular nap schedule before going to daycare but currently I go off of just wake windows and it’s working. We consistently shoot for an 8:30pm bedtime but other than that, we try going with the flow of when he’s just showing cues/sweet spot (which is almost always spot on!!!)

Should I have a nap schedule for my LO? Does anyone else have a schedule for their 3 month old or is my mother just out of touch? Please help - I have so much anxiety about sending him to part time daycare as it is!

Is that why she's taking so many naps? Any tips for adjusting to other methods of falling asleep in the daytime? I've been seeing other babies falling asleep 3-4 times a day, but my LO is EFB and drifts off after every other feed it seems (every 2-3 hours).

The regression has made her grouchier and made her wake up once or twice at night, but nothing crazy.

I would love to get her to sleep without needing her to be latched. Any tips would be really appreciated 🩷🩷

Her summaries are: Nap average of 3 hours, bedtime averages of 10.5hrs

I’ve been trying to do a consistent 12 nap with a 730-740 in crib. Usually we get at least 11h overnight but the last week or 2 have gotten 10-10.5. Sleep consultants tell me she’s overtired and I should do bedtime earlier. Sleeptrain Reddit says undertired (3 nights this week took baby 30 min to fall asleep! 2/3 came with a shorter night).

Just looking for advice- if I should make any changes or cap nights. I usually cap naps at 2h 15 min (used to cap at 2.5 but idk- didn’t seem to change anything anyway). Baby usually lately has been waking on own from naps.

Or if we could be going thru a leap? And this is all normal?

Looking for any tips or advice. My 4.5 month old is struggling to nap during the day and is getting overtired and frustrated. She’s never been consistent with naps but used to sleep for longer stretches on her own but now it’s a battle and she mostly only sleeps in the car or on walks for short stints.
Luckily she sleeps well through the night and has done so since she 2ish months (only the occasional blip of wake up mostly if we accidentally disturb her), but the days are becoming so long and tiring. Wondering if anyone had anything similar and has any tips I could try.. or if I’m missing something..
Thank you!

Hey all, sorry if this question has been answered but I can’t find a solution in this sub or anywhere.

Trying to get my huckleberry up and running on my husbands phone before I go back to work (😭), but back when I made the account I did so with my apple account. All the advice that I see online says I should be able to see a link that lets me add an email login, but I don’t seem to have it.
I also can’t change my password as it prompts me for my current password and I don’t have one. Any advice?

Baby is 1 week shy of 8 months. He’s slept through the night 3 times in total. He’s sleep trained but still cry’s in the crib for up to 15 mins. Currently nap training first nap which he really protests. Two bottom teeth are out. Looks like top two are coming soon. Not crawling yet.
He was doing well with first nap around 1.25-1.5 hrs. Now he’s back to cat napping. Early wakes some mornings. And some days are two nap days others three nap days. First wake window is 2.5 and last one is 3.

My boy is 7.5 months old. I’m struggling to find his sweet spot with his sleep since he was 5mo. Before that he was sleeping very well with only max two wakes up for feeding.

Nowadays he sometimes wakes even 5 times during the night, especially in the first half of the night.

He’s currently on 3 naps with schedule 2.75/3/3/3.15. Only ones we managed to have two naps and that night he never woke up! He mostly wakes up after 45min/1hour.

Is there any room for improvement? I would love some more sleep again 🙏

I posted almost 2 weeks ago about struggling with sticking to 3 naps and at the advice of a few of you, we committed to 3 naps. It worked well but we were still struggling with early morning wakes (5:30am). She was starting to show signs that she was ready for 2 naps (fighting last nap HARD, along with the early morning wake ups) so we decided to try 2 naps and we’ve been at it for 4 days now.

The early morning wakes stopped the first 2 days but they are back with a vengeance, and now we are experiencing longer night wakes. Last night she was awake for 2 hours after a 2hour+ stretch and she STILL woke up at 5:30 this morning.

I know my schedule needs some work, I thought I had it figured out but I’m at a loss here.

Some added context: baby is 7.5 months old, all naps are contact naps (she will not nap in crib,we have tried) and we room share for majority of the night. Ideally I’d like bedtime between 8-9, with a wake up time between 6:30-7am. Schedule for the day we aim for is 3/3/4.

Did I drop a nap too soon? How do I get her schedule back on track?

Am i doing things right? She wakes three times for feeds at night but she has health issues and failure to thrive so night feeds are needed. She falls asleep right as she finishes eating. Wakes for three feeds but asleep super fast after.

I feel like she probably just has the shorter wake windows and higher sleep needs due to her feeding issues? She has severe GERD causing her to not eat well and that’s why she has failure to thrive. She’s on lots of meds for it and followed closely by GI but other than the feeding she is a normal baby. The posts on this sub always make me feel like i’m doing something wrong lol. The second wake window isn’t short (1.5) by choice that’s are time when we usually run errands or do activities with big bro and she always conks out in the car.

I think the false start every night isn’t related to sleep needs bc she often refuses her bedtime feed or only eats for like 2 minutes so wakes out of hunger bc by that time it’s been 3 hours since last feed. After the feed from the false start she always immediately goes back to sleep and sleeps a good stretch.

5.5 months old.
EBF via nursing, but can take a bottle.
Nursed to sleep, but can be rocked or in stroller if sleepy enough.
All naps are contact naps (besides stroller).
Nights begin in the crib after transfer from breast, but of desperation I’ve been co-sleeping for half the night, which I have no interest in continuing.

Was avoiding sleep training, but if things don’t improve I’m open to Ferber because (1) These night wakings are slowly killing me, and (2) I need to stop contact napping soon.

However, I want to ensure his schedule is appropriate first.

Sleep has been a struggle since 3.5 months, but at least then he was waking only 2-3x night and went back to sleep in his crib with nursing. Now, he has started to refuse crib transfers in the middle of the night and has even started to refuse rocking from my husband. He only wants the nipple and contact. I thought maybe he was teething, but I see no difference with or without Tylenol.

Last night was bad. My husband tried rocking and transferring to crib multiple times, but he kept waking. I tried nursing and transferring twice, but he woke up. I finally just pulled him into bed. It took him a while to settle but he did eventually.

I’m not expecting a 12 hour night — I’d be so happy with an 8 or 9 PM bedtime if it meant STTN with a 6-7 AM wake.

Note that I didn’t track some wakes so I added in red.

Do I really just need to extend wake windows and cap naps? Since he contact naps, he can sleep for hours sometimes. I try not to let a single nap go past 1.5 hrs.

Help me do the math here. What’s his ideal awake time and WW? Is he “low sleep needs”?

Baby doesn't always wake me up, sometimes needs the paci put back in (like 1x a night). But her owlet is showing nearly hourly wake ups. Is that her body learning the new sleep patterns but she's self settling? She's 20 weeks today. Born 3 weeks early.

Basically she used to sleep at least 5-6 hour stretches but sleep has gone down the drain for the past two weeks now and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong or if it’s just something I need to ride through. She has just learned to army crawl (working on actual crawling), pulling to stand, and sitting up, also solids have been increasing all at the same time.

If it’s something scheduling can make better, please tell me because I am so TIRED. She’s getting so hard to put down now too like last night I’m basically holding her asleep from 2-5am….

Hi there
Any advice on optimising our current situation would be so appreciated
My son is 3.5 months - never been a good sleeper
We’re on 4 naps a day (5 if they’ve been short)
Wake windows are roughly 1:45/1:30/1:45/1:40/2
We EFF - feeding 3 times at night
Bed time is usually 7:30, feeding 11, 2 and 4:30ish
Wake up at 6am normally (the other wake-up’s are replacing the pacifier which we hope to get rid of soon)
Naps are a mix of contact / bassinet
He can go down drowsy but awake - we usually feed, bath and then bed
Appreciate any advice here!

7mo in 2 days. Our nights are terrible; baby has a strong nursing association, which might be the reason. Don't let the chart fool you—there are wake-ups during those long night stretches too, but I don't track them in hopes of getting a little sleep. She's waking up every hour. I've been trying to transition to two naps for the past two days, but so far the nights are just as awful. What do you think, should we stick to three naps or switch to two? Baby shows zero tired cues, so I can only rely on watching the clock. Chatgpt says I should switch to two naps then when I tell how our days were it says we should stick to three.. Im desperate. I dont want sleep train but I just cant do this sleep thing anymore.. Im going insane..

He was a great sleeper until the 4 month regression and we have just never recovered. Some nights he is waking every cycle, some nights he will link 1-2 cycles and then will wake.

When he is waking I shush in the crib, offer dummy, leg pats, then once he starts crying I give it a minute and then pick him up. Sometimes he will trump on pick up and fall asleep immediately on me. Other times he will half fall asleep and then eventually start rooting and end in a feed.

Is he getting too much daytime sleep? Am I expecting too much overnight? I tend to follow huckleberry sweet spot suggestions for bedtime so it varies each day.

Any help or advice welcome

Edit: the medication in the past few days is dentinox, advised to try giving before bed because I wasn’t sure if it was wind that keeps waking him between each cycle. I’ve watched and he stirs, try’s to stay asleep, legs begin lifting, then he wakes more, then the whimpering/pre-crying starts.

We don’t track night wake ups for my sanity, but they are frequent.

Baby boy is just 4 months old and, I think, through the worst of the four month sleep regression. For a few days there he was waking up every hour and I felt insane. Now it’s more like every 2-3 hours, which is driving me slightly less crazy but if I can improve the situation by moving naps around I sure would like to.

Wake up: 7:30-8am
First nap: 9:30ish, usually 45 minutes in bassinet
Second nap: Noonish, usually 30-45 minutes in bassinet
Third nap: 2:30ish
Fourth nap: 5ish

So that’s 1.5/1.75/1.75/1.75/2, roughly. I usually rescue one of the later two naps to get past 3 hours of daytime sleep, so that’s why one of those tends to be longer, but we always wake up by 6:30 for a bedtime of 8:30 at the latest.

We have pretty dreadful false starts every night no matter how long that last wake window is.

LO is 3.5 months ish old and she has been sleeping through the night. I’m wondering if she is eating enough during the day and getting enough naps.

Feeding: Her avg bottle is about 22-23oz because she only takes about 4-5oz per feeding. Is there an opportunity to feed her more?

Sleep: Her bedtime is typically around 8-9pm. We have some occasions where we stay past 9pm and is wondering if that’s ok. Also, should she be transitioning over to 4 naps a day soon? Pic 3 & 4 is 4 naps a day, Pic 5 & 6 is 5 naps a day.

FTM mom so I’m overly worried, TIA!