Parents - Can you share your sleeping advice/experience please
Hi, we have two children. The older was a breeze at sleeping. But the younger one who is now 6 and 1/2 months old is much more "dynamic". My question is related to sleeping through the night, and night feedings. My wife is very sleep deprived and is getting depressed.
We started sleep training our baby last month and after a fair bit of crying, he now gets up twice a night: 2am and 5am for feeds. In the day he will only nap 3 x 30 minutes and it is driving my wife crazy as she keeps reading babies need to sleep for 3 hours combined.
My question is:
1. Can you share your experience with sleep training or just handling sleeping, including naps?
2. Does/did your baby sleep 12 hours at a young age? What can we realistically expect?
3. Did you night wean or keep feeding the baby during the night. Our baby is at 90 percentile so no weight concerns from the doctor.
I'd appreciate any insights as the strain is causing some pressure in our household and I want my wife to laugh and smile again freely rather than obsess about the baby sleep so much (she is constantly reading books and sleep training forums)
Thanks,
J
We started sleep training our baby last month and after a fair bit of crying, he now gets up twice a night: 2am and 5am for feeds. In the day he will only nap 3 x 30 minutes and it is driving my wife crazy as she keeps reading babies need to sleep for 3 hours combined.
My question is:
1. Can you share your experience with sleep training or just handling sleeping, including naps?
2. Does/did your baby sleep 12 hours at a young age? What can we realistically expect?
3. Did you night wean or keep feeding the baby during the night. Our baby is at 90 percentile so no weight concerns from the doctor.
I'd appreciate any insights as the strain is causing some pressure in our household and I want my wife to laugh and smile again freely rather than obsess about the baby sleep so much (she is constantly reading books and sleep training forums)
Thanks,
J