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Which age was hardest, sleep-wise?

  • poll: My kid slept the worst...
    in month 1 : (19 votes)
    23 %
    months 2-3 : (12 votes)
    15 %
    months 4-5 : (25 votes)
    31 %
    months 6-7 : (8 votes)
    10 %
    months 8-9 : (6 votes)
    7 %
    months 10-12 : (5 votes)
    6 %
    Over a year old : (6 votes)
    7 %
  1. Smurfette

    GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts

    3-4 and 5 months

  2. Foodnerd81

    wonderful cherry / 21504 posts

    C was not a sleepy newborn, but she started having long stretches at night pretty early on and I was patting myself on the back for having a great sleeper. Then, a little after the 2 month mark sh!t hit the fan. She just could not sleep at night, could not nap, screamed, colicky, everything, for a little over a month. Then, at 3.5 months we did a little sleep training- CIO for falling asleep since we had previously been nursing or rocking to sleep and it was taking an hour + every night, then sometimes she would still scream anyway. And she was baptized. And suddenly, she was fine. Not a great sleeper, no, but 1-2 wake up a night, occasionally refusing a nap, I could deal with. We have had regressions here and there but nothing horrible. (Don't go back through my posts, I'm sure they say otherwise, but compared to that one month, it's been fine).

  3. Mae

    papaya / 10343 posts

    @Anagram: one of the (many) reasons we may be one and done Fia is so good with sleep we're like we won't be this lucky again! (but it cuts both ways because she's so bad with eating we're like... what if our next was the same?! lol)

  4. mrsjyw

    GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts

    NB sleep was bad but fueled by FTM adrenaline. Month 2 was the hardest. He had no set # of wakeups that month and varied greatly!

  5. heartonastring

    pomegranate / 3895 posts

    Months 4-9.

    DD was a great sleeper at first. STTN from four weeks to four months. Then at four months we started doing one overnight wake up. Somewhere around six months it went up to two. Back down to one by seven or eight months and has been reliably STTN (7:30-7) since nine months, save for illness, bad teething nights etc.

  6. autumnlove

    hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts

    @sandy: Thanks for the tips! Maybe she can stay in a crib until she is 5...jk!

  7. Kemma

    grapefruit / 4291 posts

    Months 6-8 were tough until I gave up worrying about it and just went with it. Miss A is now almost 22 months and puts herself to sleep at night and is starting to STTN although most nights I end up in bed nursing and sleeping with her.

    I've come to the conclusion that A is just one of those kids who "feels" her milestones and needs the extra night time comfort.

  8. Sapphiresun

    nectarine / 2220 posts

    We had about a three week period around 10.5 months where LO just decided she just wasn't going to sleep at all, no matter what I did. She was perfectly happy otherwise, but she would literally take 40 minute nap and two hours sleep at night from 1am-3am. DH was out of town, so I was left alone with an almost toddler that's awake 21.5 hours a day...

  9. X0X0X0

    cherry / 205 posts

    @meredithNYC: that's exactly how I felt when I had LO1. Prior to delivering LO2 I was mentally preparing myself for sleepless nights but it has rarely happen. LO2 sleep was the complete opposite of LO1, because since the day he was born he would sleep 3-4 long stretches at night and only wakes up to feed

  10. illumina

    pomelo / 5469 posts

    Month 1 was the worst....she started STTN at 8 weeks and we haven't regressed since.

  11. looch

    wonderful pear / 26210 posts

    @Smurfette: I won't lie, it wasn't easy...I think the most difficult thing was that my son wanted nothing to do with the crib any longer. He would scream when we put him in there and he vaulted himself out twice, while wearing a sleepsack. When I realized that he wanted to sleep on the futon, things became marginally better, but then I had the added bonus of not being able to contain him. My son is not one to remain in bed. He just gets out.

  12. Mrs. Lion

    blogger / grapefruit / 4836 posts

    For me month 10-15 were the hardest because I felt like such a failure that my kid still wasn't sleeping all night. He has consistently had one wakeup (no more, no less) since 8 weeks old and 10 months was when I started feeling really discouraged. Fortunately teething hell is finally over and lo is finally sleeping all night at 16 months.

  13. Baby Boy Mom

    pomegranate / 3983 posts

    First LO started his regression around 3.5 months and lasted until about 5.5 months. Before that he was waking 3ish times a night, during 10+, after 2 usually. Second LO started regression at 4 months, peaked at 6 months with 4-5 wake ups and got better around 8 months. I voted 4!

  14. meredithNYC

    pomegranate / 3314 posts

    @X0X0X0: We're trying for #2 now and I'm SO hoping that's the case for us!

  15. twodoghouse

    honeydew / 7230 posts

    Um, yesterday? Night sleep is not generally too bad here, but occasionally one or both of them decides eating every hour is cool. And then the no nap thing. Napping (or lack thereof) is constantly evolving/devolving and constantly kicking my butt! I'm letting them tandem nurse for going on 40 min right now just because they are mostly asleep and quiet. Trying to figure out if I can get comfy enough to nap while they are nursing. Also trying to determine the odds of my oversized boob suffocating tiny Blake while he eats if I fall asleep like this.

  16. LuLu Mom

    GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts

    I mean the first month we had to wake her up to feed her, and never really dealt with a sleep regression. A couple nights due to teeth but that was it. But now as a toddler, we are dealing with her walking into our room in the middle of the night. The transition to a big girl bed has been difficult.

  17. Pirouette

    pomegranate / 3331 posts

    @heartonastring: this is encouraging - pretty much the pattern my LO is in and at 7.5 months she's doing 1-2 wakeups, which i'm really hoping to get back down to 1 (and eventually none!) hopefully she follows in your girl's footsteps

    @Foodnerd81: LOL at your last sentence, it's so true! it's like "oh that time was a breeze!" then you look back at your posts and see "my baby is waking up twice during the night...HELP ME!" it's all relative

  18. kes18

    apricot / 485 posts

    Ok, I only have a 4 month old so I won't vote. But so far definitely the 4 month sleep for me. She's definitely regressing some right now. Ugh! Sleeping worse than she ever has.

    I don't tell many people, but I never felt super exhausted when she was a newborn.

  19. Mae

    papaya / 10343 posts

    @twodoghouse: oh man, I'm sorry I chuckled a little there. When I was still nursing and Fia was being fussy and refusing naps sometimes I just looked forward to nursing so much because I knew that at least I'd have 30+ minutes of quiet.

  20. Mamasig

    pomegranate / 3565 posts

    1st two months because he woke up so often. He's hit other bad spots but it's usually random and doesn't last long. However, he sleeps in our bed so we all STTN. If he didn't, I'm sure my vote would change!

  21. keiki_mama

    nectarine / 2504 posts

    Newborn sleep hands down! Coming up in second place would be sleep from 22 months to 28 month--seriously kid, wtf?!

  22. mdf106

    clementine / 828 posts

    Newborn sleep was the worst sleep, but I had some magic hormones that made me not mind, and I was not working, so I did not have to concentrate. Anytime LO's sleep gets worse, even if it is just a little bit worse, it makes me feel pretty badly the next day at work. LO has never had a major regression at 11.5 months.

  23. Greentea

    pomelo / 5678 posts

    All of them

  24. fairy

    persimmon / 1343 posts

    Mine were split up into regressions at 4 months and 9.5-11 months (the second was much worse because it was a combination of learning SO many new skills at once AND teething.) But between those dates were pretty good sleep!

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