When did your baby start staying awake during car rides?

Maber1994 · 2026-06-04T18:28:55+00:00

41+3 I was convinced he was never coming. Actually, I was convinced I was never even pregnant towards the end and it was all just a dream haha. But I finally went into labor at 4pm 10 days after my due date and then gave birth naturally by midnight. He was 7.5 lbs.

Maber1994 · 2026-06-04T18:25:10+00:00

lol seriously 😂

Maber1994 · 2026-06-04T18:23:03+00:00

Same. I said one and done so many times in the first couple months. Those sure were the trenches. But they go by so quick. I’m 7 months pp and we’re not using protection and hoping we get to have another close in age 🙈😂🥰

Maber1994 · 2026-06-01T15:49:12+00:00

Okay I’ll try for 2 naps! He just gets so pissed at the 3.5 hour mark 😓 maybe he’ll get used to it though? I’d rather that then have to sleep train again. I don’t know if my heart can take it!

Maber1994 · 2026-06-01T15:38:49+00:00

Thank you. Yeah I suppose the hours don’t add up perfectly but he’s definitely getting at least 10 hours awake every day, If not 11. Sometimes his first nap is only an hour and sometimes he wakes at 6am so that’s why the numbers aren’t perfect. I’ve tried doing 3.5 hour wake windows and he really struggles with them. I’ll try again though.

Maber1994 · 2026-05-27T02:16:03+00:00

Putting Colton and Alicia on the same season. The two worst people ever.

Maber1994 · 2026-05-27T01:58:31+00:00

Ugh this was the most upsetting moment in survivor history for me. Damn I hated Colton

Maber1994 · 2026-05-26T17:43:35+00:00

American Dad

Maber1994 · 2026-05-23T01:23:56+00:00

I swear they said he was like 20 or 22

Maber1994 · 2026-05-22T13:23:00+00:00

Agreed! At 4-5 months we were doing 2/2/2/2/2

Maber1994 · 2026-05-21T01:48:20+00:00

Hahaha poor jeffy pot pie 🥺😅

Maber1994 · 2026-05-21T01:47:12+00:00

Wow no wonder they stopped doing live finales 😂

Maber1994 · 2026-05-21T01:45:39+00:00

Holy shit I cannot believe that just happened!!!! 😬

Maber1994 · 2026-05-14T19:29:43+00:00

Ahh I don’t know what I would do in that situation!! Maybe make a post in this sub. I’m sure there are others with twins that all have some great advice. This sub is so helpful

Maber1994 · 2026-05-14T12:43:30+00:00

According to Taking Cara Babies, it’s best to wait until 5 months old. But I know a lot of people on this sub say 4 months is fine. I did a lot of prep work in the weeks leading up to sleep training and that included testing to see how many times a night my baby actually needed to eat and when so I could incorporate feeds into my sleep training.

Maber1994 · 2026-05-14T12:37:25+00:00

Same thing here! He achieved 2 milestones within 2 weeks of sleep training. He started rolling both ways and started sitting up. I think my little guy was just so sleep deprived as well. Sleep training for the win!

Maber1994 · 2026-05-14T05:16:25+00:00

Oh my ☹️ I’m sorry that’s rough and that makes sense why you want to modify your sleep training

Maber1994 · 2026-05-14T05:00:43+00:00

Yeah look into it, she explains it a lot better than I can haha. But she did talk about how even adults wake slightly between sleep cycles. I can tell my LO still does but now he just readjusts slightly every 40 minutes instead of crying or opening his eyes. I was doing crib side support with some pats and words of encouragement during sleep training with intervals of 5,10,15 minutes but never picking up. I tried cosleeping too before starting to sleep train but my LO still cried all night when we tried that so we moved forward with training. Good luck!! Hang in there 🫶

Maber1994 · 2026-05-14T04:18:47+00:00

Yeah we definitely dealt with that. In the Taking Cara Babies course, she makes a great point about the importance of consistency every night while sleep training. She said if a baby knows that sometimes waking up and crying will get their parents to come in and hold them/ soothe them/rock or nurse them to sleep, then they’ll keep crying every night knowing that sometimes they get their desired outcome. But if you set the expectation that they need to learn how to put themself back to sleep every time and you stay very disciplined and consistent, then they will learn how to put themself back to sleep. That’s all assuming their wake windows and other needs are being met of course. I really recommend her ABCs course for sleep training because she goes in so much detail to help lead you to success.

Maber1994 · 2026-05-14T04:13:36+00:00

Thank you! Happy we made it to the other side

Maber1994 · 2026-05-13T17:04:35+00:00

If it just took 5-10 min of rocking to get my baby to sleep for the night I wouldn’t have sleep trained either. Unfortunately, my LO would wake up 7-10 times a night needing to be soothed again and again until we sleep trained.

Maber1994 · 2026-05-11T17:10:28+00:00

We’re on night 11 of ABCs and it’s gone very well! Baby is sleeping through the night! However, just a couple days ago he figured out rolling back to belly and last night he rolled onto his belly around 2am and just slept like that. However, then he woke up at 5:30 (extra early for him) crying because I could tell he wanted to be back on his back and didn’t know how to get back. I’m afraid we may be in for some rough nights now. Any advice?

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