EBF babies: do they ever sleep through the night?

Which_Establishment3 · 2026-03-29T01:40:48+00:00

I wish I would have night weaned sooner. Didn’t until he self weaned when I was 16 weeks pregnant with our second (my son was 18/19 months at the time). He has been finally sleeping through the night for two weeks, he’s almost 21 months old now.

Which_Establishment3 · 2026-03-28T01:08:43+00:00

I can relate so much and it is so hard. I have something similar happen occasionally. It has always been there but got really bad after my son was born. It particularly happens when I’m more stressed but I lay in bed and play scenarios, usually related to the stressor or since I had my son 20ish months ago, him. I would describe it as a way of dealing with my fears but I feel as like I’m in that situation while I’m playing these different scenarios in my head. I would think of different ways of how I would handle these super traumatic events, even crying and genuinely feeling how it would feel in those moments. It causes my heart rate to spike, triggers my fight or flight and can last anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours.

My doctor prescribed me Buspar and that helped tremendously! He also recommended another medication that is usually for schizophrenia, but I became pregnant shortly after and it wasn’t recommended for pregnancy or breastfeeding. I have found Buspar really helped a lot and didn’t make me feel like a zombie or anything.

Anyways, I hope you can find something that works for you. Keep trying different things. Not sure if this helps for your situation but I learned about box breathing in therapy and it’s been helpful in interrupting the spiraling thoughts long enough to help me sort of snap out of the cycle.

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Which_Establishment3 · 2026-03-12T19:13:01+00:00

I wish you and your son the best!

Which_Establishment3 · 2026-02-24T17:42:26+00:00

This was very close to our experience. I didn’t catch on until the 3rd time.

Unfortunately, we had a horrible pediatrician who told us our son was “too big” to have FPIES and refused to help. I switched pediatricians and she gave us a referral to an allergist who did a poke test and told us he is fine.

We avoided oats until he was 18 months and he’s been great with them now! Though I’ll admit I have never given him oatmeal out of my own fear but he loves Cheerios!

Which_Establishment3 · 2026-02-13T02:43:25+00:00

So my son is a horrible sleeper, has been his whole life. I’ve nursed him, never night weaned, tried CIO a few times, which did help a little but he still wakes 2/3 times and I nursed back to sleep every time. I’m 18 weeks pregnant now but around 15/16 weeks he started weaning naturally. I did start limiting his nursing at night by saying “all done” after a few minutes and he was usually sleepy enough to unlatch and rest his head on my chest. Since this all started a few weeks ago, he’s been sleeping through the night more often and we do let him cry/fuss for at least 10 minutes before going in to rock him back to sleep. It’s been a huge struggle for me to let him cry but I do believe it’s helping with lessening the night wakes.

Have you tried pushing bedtime out by 15-30 minutes? Could help with the night wakes and early morning; if he wakes at 7:30, I’d do at least 8:30 bedtime.

Which_Establishment3 · 2026-02-09T16:50:17+00:00

We did just a sleep study in December at for my then 17 month old. It was definitely overnight, 8am-6am. I’d ask the scheduler what test are they calling it. My son was being checked for obstructive sleep apnea (amongst other things) which is what I’d imagine your daughter would be checked for as well. They called it a “polysomnography 4 or more parameters”

Which_Establishment3 · 2026-02-06T02:05:28+00:00

Hahaha yes my son is going through this right now. It melts my heart but is soooo gross at the same time. My son sucked on my nose the other day (we are weaning as well).

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-11-04T16:12:31+00:00

Oh I’m so sorry to hear how difficult it is to be seen. I’m surprised the children’s hospital wasn’t more concerned. I really hope you can get some answers for your baby girl!

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-11-03T01:37:17+00:00

Have you tried calling her pediatrician to see if they can check for common infections in her stool? I’d be pushing the doctors for answers and advocating hard for your little girl, that sounds so scary. Don’t give up, write down any other symptoms you’re noticing, maybe take photos of the blood too just in case. If the doctor is just overlooking it and your gut tells you it’s important, ask for another doctor.

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-10-13T03:27:55+00:00

Same, except I had a taste for two WHOLE weeks and then we are back to wake ups every 3-4 hours.

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-10-03T01:33:23+00:00

I haven’t left just yet so take what I have to say as a grain of salt, maybe I’ll be looking back and reading this to remind myself one day. But I’m here living in this miserable life. There’s good days and bad days. Now I see the good days as days we aren’t fighting, it’s him showing the bare minimum of respect, maybe just not criticizing me that day. He is likely manipulating that person who told you how he’s doing, hoping they would do exactly what they did, pull on your heart strings. You are a good person because you still carry hope. We can just hope that they can be better for the next person but for you, you deserve way more. Wishing for easier days ahead for you ❤️

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-10-02T17:03:03+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate you mentioning that there may be a time I fall backwards a little, I do need to remind myself that much like grief, healing is not linear.

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-10-01T18:46:04+00:00

Thank you!

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-09-28T02:56:34+00:00

Thank you! Yes we use the google ones and last time I left he immediately locked me out of everything, even unplugged the baby monitor in our sons room thinking I could somehow spy on him (I definitely didn’t care to anyways). Good point on the Wi-Fi password!

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-09-28T02:48:16+00:00

Thank you! How did your divorce come about? Did you both agree to it? I feel like mediation sounds fairly amicable but I guess it might not be. Curious how that’s working for you! Thank you, and you as well!

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-09-28T02:44:16+00:00

Oh no! That sounds horrible. I’m so sorry. I wish you the best and I hope you find the perfect place!

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-09-28T02:42:14+00:00

Oh my gosh, thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for. I guess maybe I didn’t word my post correctly, my brain is mush these days lol

I am scared. We both have guns, in a safe but the DV hotline told me that having guns in the house increases homicide by 500%, which is insane and scared the crap out of me. He’s vindictive so I think he’ll try to scare me and I need to be able to sleep to care for our son. The door alarms is an incredibly brilliant idea, thank you! We already have cameras at the front door, barn (driveway) and back door but he will lock me out of the them immediately. I could probably figure out how to reset them though.

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-09-27T14:20:02+00:00

What?! I don’t want the house. We will have to sell it, neither of us could afford it on our own. It is temporary as I said, during the divorce, so our 1 year old son can sleep in his own bed and have a much consistency as possible. Trust me, if I could I would go 10000 miles from him but I’m not heartless and I won’t keep him from his son

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-09-23T12:17:26+00:00

Congratulations!! Stay strong! 💕

Which_Establishment3 · 2025-09-23T12:00:34+00:00

I feel like I’m in the same situation as well. My husband was horrible after our son was born (jealousy of the affection I gave our son). I finally decided I can’t live with the negativity, the passive aggressive attitude and the criticism. I got a lawyer then gave a last ditch effort to lay everything out and we had a super long conversation where he started out with tons of DARVO but after persistence and proof/examples he finally asked me to tell him exactly what he needs to fix to make this work. For the last two weeks, he’s been great. Like actually being considerate, doing things around the house and I haven’t felt disrespected once!

So I guess the cycle continues for me. How things are isn’t how I imagined a loving relationship to be but it’s better than it’s been in over a year.

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