When does it get easier?

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New mom here. My question to moms who have experience is when does it get easier? When do you get more sleep? 6 hours straight at night perhaps?
I have a 6 week old. I’m running on 3 hours of sleep. I can handle the day with a baby when I get my sleep. My little man is sleeping 2 hour stretches right now and 3 or 4 hours if I’m really lucky but that rarely happens. I feed on demand and he is beginning to understand when it’s nighttime. Yippee! He wants to go to bed at 7 pm every evening. That is progress. I still get 1-2 hour chunks of sleep on average, though. Feeding, burping and diaper changes take 45 minutes. I am tired. 
When does it get easier? I need something to tell myself to get through these sleepless nights and I need to tell my husband my crankiness is temporary and things should get better by...when?? 🙉 🙊🙈

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My first daughter was up several times a night up until she was 4. I could never figure it out. My second daughter sleeps 12 hours a night uninterrupted since she’s been 3 months and is now 14 months. Every kid is so different. I don’t know when it gets “easier” but you’ll make it through!

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My son was a very hungry baby too, I hear ya Mama! ♥
Honestly I don't know if it 'gets easier', but we are resilient and adaptive and we get stronger. I was up every 1-3 hours until my son was 9 months old, and at some point in the first couple of months I just adjusted and became able to function like that; sleeping in short bursts became normal. If you get any chance to nap, take it! If Dad can feed a nighttime bottle and let you get 4 hrs straight, do that!
Find little ways to get better rest, and be patient with yourself.

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My son is the reason I started drinking coffee lol. It doesn't really get easier, you just get used to it. Around 3 or 3 1/2 he started sleeping through the night. But if he gets sick we're up multiple times & he still wakes up at 5 in the morning every day. We're finally getting potty training down so next step is waking up at night to pee...& he still thinks I have to be there for him to pee so there's that to look forward to......

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My daughter started sleeping longer stretches around 12 weeks...about 4-6 hours now. She’ll still have nights where she fusses every 3 hours. It does get better but every phase comes with new challenges.

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soon as my daughter turned 3 months she started sleepin thru the night and would wake up
at 8am instead of every 2 hours and then now shes 7 months she will sleep until 12am-11:30am

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I’m not gonna lie... it doesn’t get easier. 
You just face different challenges. My daughter is 12 months and still wakes up three times a night amongst the other challenges we face.

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Every baby is different, but I’d say around 4 months you can start sleep training. We did sleep train starting at 4 months and he started sleeping through the night at 5months. 
It does get easier!! But heads up, babies change a lot, and are growing fast. Our baby was sleeping amazing 5-9 months, then he started teething 😩 so for 2 months he was waking up at least once a night... a few days a week. Now he’s 14months and we’re back to sleeping well!!! So just keep that in mind. FTM here too, I feel you ❤️

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I’m with you! FTM and single mom here. My son is 12 weeks and he recently started sleeping 5-6 hours straight at night. Thank jesus. I feel like I honestly adjusted to the lack of sleep though. The first 6 weeks where the worst. Truly. It will get easier momma!

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