https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:25:42 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1594217 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:44:20 +0000 googly-eyes 1594217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hmmm around 8m and 12m she went through periods of 2-3 hr wakeups. But we have traveled and had transitions and had all the baby stuff so even though I would say my LO has this far been a good sleeper, it's kind of been up and down. We just moved so hopefully once she recovers from her cold and she gets used to her room and gets back on routine she will go back to sttn! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1594144 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:08:06 +0000 Running Elley 1594144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS- months 1 through 5.5 (when we finally sleep trained)<br /> DD- 4-4.5 months. Other than that her sleep has been amazing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1594097 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:34:18 +0000 californiadreams 1594097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>During my one year mat leave 7-9 months was his lowest point. Then I went back to work at 12.5 months and for the first couple of weeks LO realized he could maximize his mommy time by staying awake 3/4 of the night. I finally caved and did my own version of sleep training and it mostly worked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1594026 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:38:38 +0000 autumn865 1594026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hands down the hardest was from 3-5 1/2 months. The child just never slept night or day. 11- 13 months was also tough because she was sleeping well ( finally!) but then started waking up between 4:15 and 4:45 in the morning and would be up for the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1592935 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:14:07 +0000 Lindsay05 1592935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This 2-3 yr thing is scaring the hell out of me. The first 3 months for both were terrible and we had good newborns. With DD1, she went through a phase between 14 -20 months where she woke up almost every night moaning and or crying. We finally figured it was seperation issues. </p> <p>Now if only LOs would sleep past 6 am... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1592829 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:41:59 +0000 catlady 1592829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably the first month, and then from 3.5-4.5 months. The 4 month regression may even have been worse then the newborn stage simply because we came into it with a bigger sleep deficit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1592776 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:30:24 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1592776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: olive's sleep hasn't been that bad. charlie's was way worse from 2-3. that whole year was pretty hard with bedtime battles. but i think it was largely because he was napping too much at daycare (2 1/2 hours), and not getting enough exercise. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1592769 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:28:38 +0000 regberadaisy 1592769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>0-8 months. </p> <p>@Mrs. High Heels: @Mrs. Bee: you're scaring me bc I plan to switch her to a twin after she turns 2... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1592701 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:05:14 +0000 mdf106 1592701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First seven weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1592535 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:22:01 +0000 JoJoGirl 1592535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: Aw, thanks :) Yes, her STTN plus me getting PPD under control have been the magic combo. Plus she's way more fun now :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591969 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:28:19 +0000 Silva 1591969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: that is fantastic! I wish my daughter would sleep in that late!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591905 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:16:57 +0000 Boheme 1591905@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: Ohhhhh yes! He'll occasionally (rarely, really) have a rough night where he's up 3-4 times, but usually he sleeps 7:30-4, eats, then back down til 7-8. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591851 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:04:30 +0000 blackbird 1591851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Months 4 and 5 were shit. We sleep trained., </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591820 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:55:01 +0000 mrs. wagon 1591820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wagon Jr... he's always been great so probably 0-4.5 months, when we sleep trained. He wakes up crying almost every night but it's been consistently happening, and he usually goes back to sleep on his own, so I cannot complain.</p> <p>Lil Miss Wagon... either the first 4 months (BRUTAL... I thought I was going to die) or her latest regression at 19 months (again, BRUTAL... waking every hour at one point and needing us to calm her back down and sit outside her door til she fell back asleep). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591817 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:54:27 +0000 matador84 1591817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nothing could prepare me for newborn sleep. Yet, with dd she is sttn since 8 weeks. With DS, 0-12 months was pretty awful! As soon as I weaned him he sttn...so weird! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591814 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:52:47 +0000 lawbee11 1591814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Umm, all of the ages? I would say 7-8 months has been the worst so far. She was waking up 4 times/night and my sleep deprivation continued to build (and I WOH full-time). It was a really rough month. I'm hoping we're on an upswing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591732 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:27:05 +0000 Mamaof2 1591732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4-6 months - the start of teething.... it was a nightmare!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591702 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:17:43 +0000 mrsjyw 1591702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1-2 months, obvi the first few wks were hard, but i was running on ftm adrenaline and while they were short cycles, they were predictable. month 2 was when there was no reason rhyme or pattern.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591700 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:16:03 +0000 Cherrybee 1591700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: I love hearing you say that things are glorious!!! I remember how hard you had it when she was a newborn. Your posts would have put me off having a baby if I wasn't already pregnant!! :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591687 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:10:46 +0000 JoJoGirl 1591687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: I think a lot of us forget ;) For me the newborn stage was absolutely the worst, followed closely but some crap that happened around 5 months when she decided to be awake for 2 hrs at a time in the MOTN every night and I was back at work. </p> <p>LO started consistently STTN around 10 months and things have been glorious since then (she's almost a year). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591668 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:01:08 +0000 looch 1591668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: He's never been a good sleeper, but at that age, they're more vocal about what they want, so the things that used to work, didn't.</p> <p>The biggest thing was that we had several moves in that time and he refused to use the crib past age 20 months, so.....that may not be the case for your LO, so don't panic....yet! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591666 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:59:50 +0000 Cherrybee 1591666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: A tough *stretch* between 2 and 3??? A stretch? That's a year!!! That's 1/3 of your LO's life!!!?</p> <p>Okay, this thread is freaking me out now!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591664 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:58:51 +0000 Silva 1591664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: are things still going relatively well? (I use the word relatively because sometimes when we have a "bad" night I have to remind myself of how unbearable it used to be! :wink: ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591662 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:57:11 +0000 Silva 1591662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4-6 months she wouldn't sleep by herself, and wouldn't unlatch. That was terrible. But from month 10 to 11ish stands out in my mind as worse, maybe because we weren't co sleeping anymore so I had to get up out of bed 4-8 times a night, and maybe because we had a brief period of good sleep right before it happened. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591647 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:49:12 +0000 looch 1591647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. High Heels: yes, we had a tough stretch between 2 and 3 that is just now levelling off to good.</p> <p>eta: I also went back to work during this time, so it's probably also partly because of that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591642 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:45:43 +0000 mediagirl 1591642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>7 months. She just wouldn't go down without us rocking her to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591640 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:42:43 +0000 Cherrybee 1591640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: Hugs. xx</p> <p>This 9 month sleep regression is the worst so far! Learning to crawl + other developmental milestones + teething + being sick for the last two months (thank you daycare!) - it's just brutal and, like @shopaholic: said, you don't have any tools in your toolkit! DD hates being rocked, bouncing just wakes her up more, we don't night feed any more and, besides, milk no longer sends her to sleep - it's horrific!! Plus, in the newborn days, I was running on hormones and adrenaline, plus I didn't have work the next day!! (ooh, look at me, romanticizing the newborn stage!!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591621 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:21:05 +0000 nana87 1591621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It scares the crap out of me that more of you aren't saying the newborn stage!! Dd is 3 weeks old and is nursing for the 6th time since midnight (it's 7am). She has screamed in between and hasn't slept longer than 90 mins all night... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591532 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:55:50 +0000 autumnlove 1591532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The first month. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-hardest-sleep-age-for-your-lo#post-1591518 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:14:46 +0000 gracecat 1591518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD is only 16 months but so far it was worst her first 10 weeks of life until we sleep trained. Why is toddler sleep so bAd? I'm scared... Is it cuz they can escape so easily now and want to play? </p>