https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 05:53:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1790630 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:26:42 +0000 fairy 1790630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1790190 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:07:16 +0000 Greentea 1790190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All of them :meh: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1790185 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:58:00 +0000 mdf106 1790185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1789976 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:23:30 +0000 keiki_mama 1789976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Newborn sleep hands down! Coming up in second place would be sleep from 22 months to 28 month--seriously kid, wtf?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1789927 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:02:52 +0000 Mamasig 1789927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1789501 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:35:54 +0000 Mae 1789501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788802 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:17:05 +0000 kes18 1788802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> <p>I don't tell many people, but I never felt super exhausted when she was a newborn. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788756 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:57:48 +0000 Pirouette 1788756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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 :)</p> <p>@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 :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788721 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:41:40 +0000 LuLu Mom 1788721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788669 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:30:31 +0000 twodoghouse 1788669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788663 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:28:41 +0000 meredithNYC 1788663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@X0X0X0: We're trying for #2 now and I'm SO hoping that's the case for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788474 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:37:24 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1788474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788412 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:02:47 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1788412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788397 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 06:53:37 +0000 looch 1788397@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788326 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 02:24:11 +0000 illumina 1788326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Month 1 was the worst....she started STTN at 8 weeks and we haven't regressed since. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788323 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:39:43 +0000 X0X0X0 1788323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788322 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:29:06 +0000 Sapphiresun 1788322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788294 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:36:50 +0000 Kemma 1788294@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788277 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:56:10 +0000 autumnlove 1788277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: Thanks for the tips! Maybe she can stay in a crib until she is 5...jk! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788188 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:25:07 +0000 heartonastring 1788188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Months 4-9.</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788178 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:09:56 +0000 mrsjyw 1788178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788168 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:03:44 +0000 Mae 1788168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788095 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:18:59 +0000 Foodnerd81 1788095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise/page/2#post-1788094 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:18:55 +0000 Smurfette 1788094@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3-4 and 5 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise#post-1788084 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:09:58 +0000 Anagram 1788084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: oh, don't listen to me! There are people even here on HB who have had two really good sleepers. It's all luck-of-the-draw and maybe even genetic, who knows? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise#post-1788080 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:08:46 +0000 sandy 1788080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: this is my greatest fear now that I'm pregnant with #2 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise#post-1788071 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:02:02 +0000 Anagram 1788071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: If you have a good sleeper, you may never have any really bad sleep regressions. My niece was a great sleeper after 7 weeks and never really regressed. So my sister was pretty shocked when she had her second and he wouldn't STTN until he was 2, haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise#post-1788070 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:01:38 +0000 MrsF 1788070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Newborn - hands down. I can't even talk about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise#post-1788068 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:59:40 +0000 skibobrown 1788068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our daughter was a good nighttime sleeper from the beginning. She started STTN (except for pacifier replacements a couple times per night) at 3.5 months. She never had a noticeable sleep regression. So I'd say month 1 was the worst, when she still had to wake to be fed every few hours. We're about to move her from her crib to a toddler bed, so maybe we're asking for it... but honestly, she sleeps like a rock at night, so I'm guessing the only problem we'll face is having her fall out of the bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-age-was-hardest-sleep-wise#post-1788010 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:18:16 +0000 sslm 1788010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She was an amazing sleeper. She slept in 3 hour stretches from the beginning, and by 8 weeks she was going 5-6 hours or more. She started sleeping right through the night around 10 weeks. That continued until she hit 5 months and at that point she became a horrible sleeper until 11 months. We're finally in a good place now at 15 months. I'm hoping it lasts at least a little while! </p>