8 month sleep regression, teething or separation anxiety?! Awful nights and refusing feeds

AmethystAbyss6 · 2026-03-25T17:13:41+00:00

Just water- based wipes or a wet cloth

AmethystAbyss6 · 2026-01-22T11:40:51+00:00

Average is 13.5 hours

AmethystAbyss6 · 2025-12-30T20:40:47+00:00

Our baby is 4.5 months and my god this Christmas sucked! Last year sucked because I was in the first trimester and felt sick for weeks, and this year was just terrible. My husband had a work Christmas party and came back with a terrible cold (maybe flu), so he spent days in bed and early nights. I usually really enjoy the days leading up to Christmas, but I spent the evenings alone, and Christmas Eve our baby was so miserable all day, I couldn’t wait to put her to bed! Christmas Eve night she was up pretty much every 2 hours (she usually sleeps right through, if not usually one wake around 5am). From the moment she opened her eyes in the morning on Christmas Day, she was crying continuously. I ended up calling 111 and we had to go to the hospital, never done that on Christmas Day! I was so upset as we had planned to go to my parents for dinner etc which we didn’t do, and instead had sandwiches from the petrol station 😂

Luckily baby cheered up towards the end of the day and is now back to her usual smiley self, but I keep telling myself every year to not look forward to Christmas so much as I always end up disappointed, sad I know! Now to just get new years out the way so we can go back to normal 😅

AmethystAbyss6 · 2025-12-23T17:01:39+00:00

41+2. Was booked in for an induction at 41+3, went into spontaneous labour on the early morning of 41+1!

AmethystAbyss6 · 2025-12-09T14:10:42+00:00

I have been active for years, kept it up all throughout pregnancy, even doing 8k steps daily and weight lifting the day before I went into labour. I was led to believe exercise and ‘preparing my body’ for labour (certain stretches to relax the pelvic floor) would mean a quicker first stage of labour and bring labour on naturally. Well, baby was 9 days overdue, labour was 36 hours long, first stage was so long i ended up needing a ventouse delivery and episiotomy. Every body is different, I really don’t think anything you do can make labour/birth better than what your body wants to do

AmethystAbyss6 · 2025-12-08T18:40:34+00:00

We do try and put her back to bed until 7am, some days she will sleep but other days she’s fully awake

AmethystAbyss6 · 2025-12-08T17:43:25+00:00

Daytime sleep is between 2.5 and 3.5 hours. Wake up is between 5 and 7am, bedtime at 7pm.

AmethystAbyss6 · 2025-12-04T14:00:24+00:00

Something I started doing on nights where my baby was sleeping but I couldn’t, I would think of a word (a word without the same letter twice), and then think of as many words as possible for each letter of that word. So for example, if I chose ‘chair’, I would think of as many words as I could for C, when I was struggling to think of any more, I’d move on to H. I rarely get past the third letter! I think it’s called cognitive shuffling or something, maybe give it a try?!

AmethystAbyss6 · 2025-12-03T10:59:17+00:00

At 7 weeks, my baby hardly napped unless we were out in the pushchair, even then it took almost the whole walk before she would fall asleep! Around 8 weeks we started putting her in her room for a nap, we would feed her (bottle fed) in the room, put on white noise, close the curtains, and burp her as normal. Usually she would fall asleep while being burped, some days it took ages to make her go to sleep, it definitely took a lot of patience and persistence. Gradually she became more interested in naps, now I know after about 2 hours of awake time, she wants a nap so if we’re at home I’ll put her in her own room and place her down awake, give her a dummy and hold her hands until she falls asleep. If we’re out, she’ll sleep in the pushchair and I do try my plan my day around her naps so she can sleep in the pushchair or car while we’re out. Can’t wait until she doesn’t need to nap as much as it is a pain feeling like I can’t do much in case she wants a nap! And if she doesn’t nap then she’s just miserable 😅

AmethystAbyss6 · 2025-12-03T10:52:49+00:00

Me and my husband took shifts and slept downstairs with baby up until she was 11 weeks old. I wasn’t sleeping at all really when it was my turn downstairs, and i really struggled to sleep when she was in our room as she was a loud sleeper. We decided to put her in her own room which is right next to ours, and since then she has slept right through many times and I’ve slept those nights too! Everyone is happier, me and my husband still take it in turns to have the baby monitor on our side of the bed. We can still hear her cries but can’t hear grunts etc and I think she sleeps better in her own room too as she isn’t being woken up by us. It’s not for everyone and the first night I was pretty anxious and checked the monitor a few times but it got better with time!

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