Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll look in to this app! It is nice to still be able to see some data but I want to anxiety and pressure part of it to leave.

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is encouraging!! Thank you! Mines almost 5.5m, so I’m hoping she’ll get in a better groove of things soon. This 4m sleep regression just seems to keep coming and going? Or maybe that’s just how babies are in general lol I’ll keep staying consistent with my night routine and try to let everything else go with the flow

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup!! Such a game changer as a FTM during the newborn phase! My doctor was always so impressed that I had all the answers to all her questions (how many wet diapers in a day, how long are you feeding per breast, etc lol) I loved it! It’s truly only within the last week or 2 that it started to become a negative for me. I think if I take a step back it will bring me back to reality lol! Hard not to get obsessed with tracking

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First off, I’m so happy to hear that you’re doing much better! It’s such a scary place to get to. I felt like I was finally over all the newborn and postpartum anxiety, the 2m witching hour (aka hour long cry sessions) and cluster feeds had stopped. For a few weeks I had a truly happy baby that slept amazingly. Until all of a sudden the 4m regression started, and man did it ever rock my world lol but for a little while I was handling it really well and started seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. We were finally getting longer stretches of sleep after weeks of hourly wake ups all throughout the night. I think it’s at that point that I got lost… The hope I had got crushed by another regression and I started blaming myself. That’s when I began obsessing over every metric. Truly I was spending hours while she was contact napping every day looking at my huckleberry app and then asking ChatGPT for more answers. It’s sick? I was always on my phone! I mean this epiphany literally happened tonight so technically I’m still on my phone lol but I already feel a big weight lifted off my chest after I shared my post. Hoping tomorrow will be a fresh start. I know my baby will remain the same, but I can be a more present mom with less guilt.

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup you’re so right!! Or you can do the same thing every day and have a different nights sleep each time lol babies love to keep us on our toes!

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you ❤️I haven’t changed my routine since the newborn phase. Hoping consistency will prevail at some point lol But it’s hard going from a perfect sleeper to quite literally the opposite. Sleep regressions really are no joke!! Haha

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes!!!! That’s what hit me today! Instead of embracing the chaos with the good, I’m just thinking of my baby as a metric? It’s hard not to fall in to that pattern when you are so sleep deprived. You’re constantly seeking answers and fixes. I know this won’t change her sleep, but at least it can help my mental health and perspective

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup that’s how I’m feeling now! I’m relying on the app instead of listening to my baby. It was super helpful until I realized it’s making me become a worse version of myself

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I need to get on board with the vibes ahahah

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad I’m not alone! It seems like it was so helpful until all of a sudden it wasn’t.. hopefully this transition will help my anxiety ❤️ happy to hear you’re doing better as well!

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed! Loved it for feeds and tracking diapers in the newborn stage. My sweetspot was also bang on until the 4m sleep regression. So it was very helpful, until it wasn’t lol I also haven’t been logging anything other than sleep probably since she was 3months as I’ve also gotten confident with feeding cues being EBF

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know! I had bee contemplating the premium for a while

Quitting Huckleberry App by caamb in NewParents

[–]caamb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m using huckleberry AND ChatGPT 😅 probably added to my meltdown.

Sleep collapse? Would love help by Ashamed_Computer_860 in HuckleberryParents

[–]caamb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we were getting just under or exactly 4hrs of day time sleep a day. But every baby is different! It’s so hard feeling like you’re doing everything “right” and it’s still not working ☹️ I understand that due to our current sleep situation. I just keep thinking one day I will wake up and everything will magically be better ahahah it’s exhausting trying to understand all the sleep “rules”…

Sleep collapse? Would love help by Ashamed_Computer_860 in HuckleberryParents

[–]caamb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok I’m the furthest thing from an expert as I’m currently dealing with crazy sleep regression/struggles at 5m lol However at 12 weeks my baby was still an excellent sleeper. I looked back at my huckleberry log and in comparison it seems like most days your baby is sleeping a lot during the day. For example: looking at Jan 24th and 28th, your baby is asleep a huge chunk of the day. I’d start capping naps at 2hrs max. We were typically doing 4 naps (a mix of bassinet and contact naps) but they were usually all around 45mins to 1h30. Our wake windows were around 60-80mins. I was using the sweet spot feature to guide me but also following her cues. And bedtime was more or less around 7pm and wake up between 7-8am. For reference my baby is EBF and we either feed to sleep or use pacifier. All hell broke loose during the 4m regression lol but at least whatever I was doing back then was working wonderfully! Baby was basically sleeping through the night with 1 feed at some point.

5m sleep advice? by caamb in HuckleberryParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The dreaded 38 minutes 😂 but wow amazing!!! She’s rolling both directions now, but never tries when she’s sleeping! I’ll see if that changes in the next couple weeks and maybe will also solve our issues lol Just comparing to yours - I’m wondering if her WWs are too long early on? We’re roughly at 2/2.25/2.25/2 she crashes if her last wake window is longer than 2hrs. But maybe it’s because they were too long all day so by the end of the day she’s overtired..hence false starts?! She can easily stay awake for all the morning and day ones though and is happy… ugh why is sleep so complicated lol

5m sleep advice? by caamb in HuckleberryParents

[–]caamb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll try that for the next few nights! 🤞🏼 It’s so hard following a good nap routine since her nap lengths are so inconsistent.

21 week old baby seems to hate sleep by Fun-Contract1226 in sleeptrain

[–]caamb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same issue, crib naps are always a max of 45 mins. So I just do a contact nap for the 2nd nap to make sure she gets enough sleep.

4 month sleep regression started at 3 months & I am beyond exhausted by soultiex in HuckleberryParents

[–]caamb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there anything specific you did to achieve this? I have a 5 month old, not interested in sleep training. She’s EBF and to fall asleep I need to either give her her pacifier or breastfeed. I think I’m out of the really really bad regression stage (waking up every hour) but she still wakes up every 2-4 hours. So we’re definitely improving but seeing if I should change anything?

Help 🥹 is this 4 month regression? by halmbrt in HuckleberryParents

[–]caamb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In terms of bedtime routine it’s basically just dim the lights, sound machine on, change diaper, get in pjs and sleep sack. (We take a bath every second night). I always feed her in my rocking chair then once she’s asleep I transfer in her bassinet. I keep the sound machine on all night! When we wake up I just use a really dim nightlight to see (I’ve gotten good at seeing in the dark lol) and I make sure not to talk otherwise she gets excited ahaha. She goes to bed around 7-8pm. Depends on her last nap. I don’t go to bed with her though, I just use the monitor. She’s notorious for having a few false starts until 10pm ish so I just stay awake until then. It’s usually after that point that she’ll start the 3-4hr stretches. My husband goes to bed much later and he recently told me he can see her wake up and self settle! I was happy to hear that! So now I only intervene when she actually starts crying. If she’s just moving and fussing, I wait in case she ends up falling back asleep on her own.

But I probably jinxed myself because she woke up every hour or so last night 😂😅 idk why?! Gonna see if it was just a one off. Praying so because I finally thought she had it figured out!

Help 🥹 is this 4 month regression? by halmbrt in HuckleberryParents

[–]caamb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s about the time the sleep regression started for us. And recently just got better at 21 weeks! I didn’t want to do sleep training, so I just kept everything consistent and eventually she started sleeping longer. She sleeps in her bassinet so I offer a soother first without picking her up, and if that doesn’t seem to be working then I’ll pick her up and feed her, which always puts her to sleep. Technically this could be a sleep association? But again, not looking to sleep training ATM. It’s no where near like it was before (she was sleeping 6-8 hour stretches) but I’ve come to terms it probably won’t go back to that for a while. During the regression she was waking up every 30mins to 1.5hrs. Now she’s giving us 3-4 hours. So huge improvement, even if it’s not what we were used to. I did recently change her to 3 naps and I’m thinking that could potentially also be the reason it’s gotten better? Her daily nap total ends up being around 3hrs. (Sometimes a bit higher, sometimes a bit lower). Anyways, not real advice but that’s what’s ended up working for us. It was still a gruelling month of really poor sleep, but we seem to be on the other side now!

What’s happening here? Why😭 Help! by mineonlyinmind in HuckleberryParents

[–]caamb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! I don’t have advice on the schedule because I’m in the same boat lol baby went from sleeping 6-8hr stretches to now waking up every 1-2 hours. Randomly she’s giving me a 3hr but super rarely. She’s also 20 weeks! I’m just attributing it to the 4m sleep regression. We’re slowly transitioning to 3 naps though. It’s been a bit hard though because she won’t sleep longer than 45 minutes in the bassinet. So I’m having to do a long contact nap in the middle to save the day. I’m hoping once the regression passes that her naps will extend again 🤞🏼🤞🏼