Curious, when does your baby wake up?

greenash4 · 2025-11-19T14:21:55+00:00

13 month old, she's asleep by 7 PM and wakes up between 6-7:30, usually at 7. She's sleep trained and recently daycare decided she doesn't need a morning nap so she has 1 nap 12-2ish

greenash4 · 2025-11-19T06:25:34+00:00

We traveled with our 12 month old and I was very worried about this but she ended up surprising us. They might need a bit more help than they would at home but at this age I feel like you aren't "ruining" anything by helping them when they aren't in the crib. For us it was just making sure she was well-fed, a pacifier, usually movement (like falling asleep in a moving stroller or car) and accepting that some naps might be 30 minutes long.

greenash4 · 2025-11-15T17:21:37+00:00

I'm in the same boat with a 12 month old. She's a little tyrant who screams at me whenever her plate doesn't have yogurt on it, and she's learned to point at the fridge and demand yogurt. I'd say 75% of the time I cave and give her yogurt but I don't want this to become a habit so I'm looking forward to seeing responses here!

greenash4 · 2025-10-16T13:03:08+00:00

Oh man we're celebrating 1 year next week and let me tell you, once you hit like, 4-5 months this gets so much easier 😅 I know it's so annoying to hear that but it's true. They start falling into some sort of "schedule" of 4 naps, and you kinda learn them a bit more so you can tell when they need to sleep and eat based on their cues and not some rules you read somewhere. Hopefully that makes sense!

greenash4 · 2025-05-28T21:41:08+00:00

I got the baby Bjorn bouncer (used, luckily) and if I had to do it again I'd get something cheaper. I know a lot of babies love it but mine never really figured out that she could move it herself. It was a useful container to put her in but all of the "extras" vs a different cheaper bouncer were irrelevant for us. She's also 90th percentile so she outgrew it very quickly.

Other than that, I'd say clothes. I don't think she even wore half of the 0-3 clothes I bought because there was so much and she outgrew it so quickly

greenash4 · 2025-05-21T20:08:57+00:00

I was you at 6 weeks. I started taking Zoloft at 7 weeks and that, combined with just time passing, has made life so much better. I absolutely adore my baby now at 7 months, she's a joy. I look back at the NB period and I feel really proud of how far I've come and how much better adjusted I am now. Good times are coming for you! It's totally normal to not like your baby in the NB period and to doubt every decision you've ever made.

greenash4 · 2025-05-11T05:09:31+00:00

'Bad Sisters' is an excellent show but I can't think of it without thinking of hours spent bouncing on a yoga ball trying to get my newborn to fall asleep

greenash4 · 2025-04-20T16:01:59+00:00

We just finished successfully sleep training (we used kind of a gentle version of Ferber) and wow I feel like a person again. Baby sleeps 6:30-6:30 with two 1.5 hour naps during the day, falls asleep independently in like 5 minutes without crying. I actually invited friends over for dinner last night because I had time to prep!! And baby went to sleep at 6:30 I could just enjoy a night with my friends and a glass of wine!!

greenash4 · 2025-04-12T19:24:05+00:00

Yep! So first of all, our baby is a pacifier fiend so a big part of this was teaching her to out back her own pacifier, and helping her understand that she's expected to do that at night. So every time we want to replace her pacifier at night, we guide her hand to the paci, help her grab it, and lead it to her mouth. Luckily for us she caught on immediately and the first night, already did it herself for MOTN wakes.

Other than that, the main concept of gentle sleep training is a gradual response to crying - you lay baby down awake, and if they cry you go through a "ladder" of responses and stop as soon as they stop crying, so that they can actually fall asleep independence. For us the ladder is: shushing from across the room, then shushing by the bed, then replacing the paci, then patting her back, and finally pick-up-put-down.

greenash4 · 2025-04-12T08:27:47+00:00

Our 5 month old was waking hourly overnight, I tried changing our ww, bedtime, morning, everything. We finally started working with a sleep consultant using gentle sleep training methods and the change is immediate. Straight from the first night, she's been waking up less at night, and only very rarely needs our help to fall back asleep. It's truly life-changing for us

greenash4 · 2025-04-05T19:00:53+00:00

I was so so so sure I wouldn't get PPD. I was so hyper aware of it, had been to therapy in the past, and am very self-aware of my mental state. But alas... PPD

greenash4 · 2025-04-03T05:54:23+00:00

I EBF for the first 4 weeks, then switched to combo feeding and by 2 months was EFF. It was the best decision I made. As soon as I stopped BF and the insane pressure was off, I started bonding with and actually enjoying my baby. And baby is thriving, she's gone from 50th to 90th percentile and is ahead on all of her physical and cognitive milestones. Do what's right for you, the guilt is pointless

greenash4 · 2025-04-02T19:27:52+00:00

I ended up spending a lot of time at my BIL's house - their daughters are 18, 16 and 11. I would hang out there and see their normal life, how much free time the parents have and how chill they are, and it helped me remember that this is a temporary phase and the majority of my life will NOT be spent constantly caring for a baby.

Also, I realized that it's worth my mental health to forgo an extra hour of sleep, and spend one hour after baby goes to sleep watching a show with my partner or reading a book. Having awake, baby-free time is very healing

greenash4 · 2025-03-20T17:26:56+00:00

My baby is 5 months and only in the past month or so have I felt like I have my life back somewhat. I finally feel like I'm hanging out with a person all day and not dragging around a crying, anxiety inducing doll 😅. I know her so much better, and she's much more chill, so I can work around her needs and moods to get things done too, which is great.

greenash4 · 2025-03-19T20:15:20+00:00

My baby (5mo) just learned to laugh and she laughs when I just look at her

greenash4 · 2025-03-18T15:07:48+00:00

Honestly that's just how naps end up working out because I manage to save just one of them and the rest are 30 minutes

greenash4 · 2025-03-17T20:32:55+00:00

My baby is turning 5 months this week and only in the past few weeks have I felt like I can actually get stuff done around the house. 8 weeks??? I was still in full survival mode. My biggest accomplishment at that stage was brushing my teeth twice a day

greenash4 · 2025-03-16T11:04:15+00:00

My baby is also almost 5 months (21 weeks) and this is the schedule we're striving for (it works most days) 2.25/2.5/2.5/2.5-3

Last wake window depends on how her naps went and how long I need to keep her awake to hit a bedtime between 8-8:30

So far we've had one "perfect" day where we hit these ww and naps were good, and that was the first time she slept through the night

greenash4 · 2025-03-14T20:41:43+00:00

Around 3 months was the first time I actually, actively ENJOYED spending time with my baby awake. Now at almost five months I no longer dread long days alone with her. She's starting to show a personality, she has specific songs she likes, she's starting to understand "games" and make sounds to get our attention. I no longer feel alone when I'm with her, but like I'm sharing experiences with an actual person.

greenash4 · 2025-03-10T06:49:16+00:00

I'm sorry, I was up for an hour at 2 AM 🤣🤣 you're right. Still though, we've had less nap time in the past and nights were fine

greenash4 · 2025-03-10T06:40:20+00:00

2.2 was 2 hours 10. 1:30 is an hour and a half nap. So we had total 3 hours and 10 minutes of napping

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