Is your baby sleeping through the night? Any tip I'm so tiredd

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So my baby is 5 months and 1 w and the longest stretch that he does is 6 h, he is waking up between 2 and 3 times.
I'm exhausted!!! He has a bed time and schedule of naps during the day, I even tried the Ferber method. But he still waking up for feeding! And my pediatrician in his 4 months appointment told me he should be able at 5 months sleep at least 10 h stretch!! I feel so frustrated 😭

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My baby has been a good sleeper. He sleeps 9 hours most nights, but honestly aside from swaddling there was nothing that really was magical for that. There are times where he wakes every 20 minutes all night long. I think they just sleep how they sleep, especially if you’ve tried as hard as you have to seek answers. They always tell me they sleep through the night when they are ready, as depressing as that sounds.

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Nope...we usually get a 6 hour stretch (every once in awhile we get an 8 hour stretch).

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Mine is 5.5 months and I get a 5 hour stretch then up every 2 hours. She’s EBF but we’re starting solids in 2 weeks so hopefully that helps. I feel you mama 😴😴

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6 hours is pretty good. My boy does like 3 or 4 hours max. I don’t think most babies are sleeping ten hours at this point

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I’m only getting 3.5 hour stretches. Envious of these mysterious 10h babies

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Mine is 5.5 months and we’re lucky to get a 4 hour stretch out of her. Usually it’s 3 hours then up every 2 hours after that. I’d give my kidney up to have a baby that would sleep 8+ hours in a stretch.

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I think at a certain point it’s just who your baby is.  We have a 10 hr sleeper right now, but I don’t think I’ve done anything magical. He just likes sleeping.

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They biggest lie society tells us is babies should sleep through the night by X months. From looking around at my mom friends and stuff, it’s largely a baby by baby thing, and more like a milestone that happens rather than a training. Training I’m sure can help, but some babies are just good sleepers. I think the biggest issue is that so many of us have to work and take care of other kids, we are just missing the support.

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After what we think was his 4-month sleep regression he started getting better. We do the same routine before bed every night (feed, sleepsack, books, sound machine,cuddle) We really worked on getting him to fall asleep on his own at bedtime. We put him down drowsy but awake, let him cry/fuss for no more 5-8 minutes. If he is still crying we will turn up the sound mavhine and give it a couple minutes, then rub his back for a couple minutes, then paci if necessary. Then we also started a dreamfeed at 10pm and weaned him off his 3am feed. Every other night we gave him .5oz less at that feed. Then we made sure to really encourage eating during the day to shift those ounces to daytime. He still wakes up some nights around 3am but we don’t feed him and follow the same method (slowly intervene) and he usually puts himself back to sleep within 5 mins or so without us even doing anything. He sometimes wakes at 5ish but I stretch him to 6am to feed him. It took a lot of slow, gentle nudging in that direction! Everything we did was based off of stuff from Takingcarababies!

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I know it an unpopular method but we cosleep and I find it easier because as soon as she fusses I put her on the boob and she nurses and goes right back to sleep. Doing this once or twice at night my 5 month old sleeps about 10 hours

Is your baby sleeping through the night? Any tip I'm so tiredd

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