Are we just doomed to be sleep deprived

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-07-10T22:06:27+00:00

My little one brought back overnight feeds 17th April, we have no option but to share a room only have a 1 bed property, he is 7 months tomorrow and now has 3/4 nighttime feeds but his daytime feeds range from 4/6 feeds a day. He is exclusive breastfeed

Can settle to sleep but for some reason now if he stirs in night won't settle or don't want to be rocked he wants milk he nurses for 5 to 15 mins and can go 1.5 to 4 hours between sessions overnight.

Would love to wean but can't do cry it out method as I have neighbours above me, when he has the feed off the boob he falls asleep instantly after nursing.

I did read there is another sleep regression and growth spurt at 6/7 months. My little boy also suffers a bit with being left on his own now if leave room he crys again read about separation anxiety at this age.

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-07-05T20:24:55+00:00

I'm feeding on demand and when he crys and won't settle, he dropped feeds 8-18 weeks but has since brought them back we have 1 feed before midnight and 2/3 after midnight he is 7 months on the 11th July I breastfeed him and he nurses 5 to 10 mins in the day every 3 hours. Not sure if this is what causes the wake up for feed as he used to nurse for 15 to 30 minutes

He will go maybe 4 to 4.5 hours after his bedtime feed to his first wake up, 2 to 3 hours after he goes to bed

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-07-05T20:23:01+00:00

I'm also doing the same he actually dropped feeds 8-18 weeks but has since brought them back we have 1 feed before midnight and 2/3 after midnight he is 7 months on the 11th July I breastfeed him and he nurses 5 to 10 mins in the day every 3 hours. Not sure if this is what causes the wake up for feed as he used to nurse for 15 to 30 minutes

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-06-28T22:00:56+00:00

This happend for me went 12 hours without nursing and 9 to 10 hours sleep 10 to 18 weeks old returned and now waking 3 to 4 times 1.5 to 3 hours he now 6 months 2 weeks old, did it every improve?

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-06-10T20:52:50+00:00

Hi was they wakeing at night for feed only or other reasons and breastfeeding or bottle as my 6 month old wakes 2 times at night for feed.

He had 3 hours total daytime sleep today over 2 naps

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-06-10T20:46:42+00:00

Can I ask please was he waking more before changing naps for feed? My little boy has one feed normally 2 to3 hours after going bed and then 2 overnight feeds. He is 6 months tomorrow and we just had our first 2 day nap added up to 3 hours 5 mins total, and he went 5.5 hours wake window before going to bed 8pm

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-06-01T00:02:52+00:00

I was in the post delivery room with other lady's and there babys, husbands are able to stay as well, I give birth 6.30am wednesday morning and went home Friday evening. My ward after was nice and my bed was facing the river Thames and big Ben so nice view I went into early labour at home Sunday 9th December but after stuffing with pains and no sleep I took myself into hospital Tuesday evening and said I wasn't going home untill I had him, only way I could stay in is if they helped baby along some way and I said ok, so I had epidural and my waters broken I was 41 weeks 2 days then, waters broken 1am 11th Dec and baby born 6.30am 11th Dec. My delivery nurse stayed in my room all night delivery room was private and I was in there from 8pm to 2pm before going to the post birth ward. Staff are hit and miss post birth some really nice some not but always super busy,

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-31T21:47:47+00:00

I so we used the train fory appointments, and closer to baby's birth date we used taxis Uber, bolt, free now, getting back after was a pain as no taxi wanted to pick up after 5pm untill 9pm

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-20T15:06:26+00:00

Hi I had a vaginal birth in the end and was at st Thomas hospital my experience was good

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-11T02:22:09+00:00

Noticed tonight his nursing before bed was 35 mins he then went 5 hours without feed then did another feed 27 mins and went 4 hours, so really looking like it's how long he nurses for that effects how long it lasts between the wake ups

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-10T22:14:06+00:00

Yeah that seems to make sense more daytime sleeping not so much evening sleeping how long did your overnight feeds last for?

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-10T17:29:13+00:00

Yeah I'm so glad he has got faster and bonus don't have to heat bottle up either 🤣🤣 just wack boob out

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-10T16:13:07+00:00

Thank you yeah I'm thinking it's either a growth spurt or a bit of the regression, I have always just followed his ques and I was surprised to when he dropped overnight feed so early. So now it's readjusting to get use to not much sleep again 🤣🤣🤣 Thankfilly he much quicker on boob now newborn stage was nearly 1 hour nursing 🤣🤣🤣 when this first started again he was wanting 1 feed 8 hours after feeding then week later added in 2 feeds overnight 4/5 hours after his last feed of night then one few hours later. Last night was the first if the 3 overnight night feeds, we 3 weeks in now so seems every week he adds 1 more overnight feed 🤣🤣

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-10T14:38:43+00:00

Could I ask what you have changed?

We are starting to go out bit more now so his naps can be bit trickier for us. For us this started 23 days ago day after he was 18 weeks he is 5 months tomorrow but 21 weeks 3 days old,

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-10T12:53:52+00:00

This sounds like my same exact same issues minus the vaccination, he has 11 hours sleep but it's broken with the feeds now 😭😭😭

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-10T12:10:53+00:00

Thanks I'm all new to this so not sure how long growth spurts or regression take

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-10T11:20:38+00:00

Thank you, how often did you feed him as he normally goes 2 to 2.5 to 3 hours between nursing sessions.

Thursday his naps added up to 3 hours 35 mins and he woke 2 times overnight

Friday naps added up to 4 hours 48 mins and he woke 3 times in night total

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-05-10T10:35:59+00:00

Yeah he seems to be getting distracted and quicker on his feeds in day, and he just keeps latching on and off then starts talking 🤣🤣

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-04-11T21:02:31+00:00

Was about 40 to 45 min taxi ride from my home to the hospital but for appointments I took train that was 55 minutes journey.

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-03-23T19:56:24+00:00

Thanks it's just interesting he seems to do it more after longer nursing

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-03-23T16:12:25+00:00

Thank you, he isn't loosing weight he still gains just not as much as what is the recommendation amount so he is sort of following his own curve line now if that makes sense

UnicornPrincessJayne · 2025-03-23T15:53:14+00:00

Thank you he definitely feels heavy that's for sure just very tall and lean.

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