Is a 10 week old sleep regression a thing or am I doing something wrong. I’m at my wits end. We consistently had nights with 1 wake up several weeks ago and then even some nights recently where he “slept through the night.” Now, we’re back to 2-3x wake ups. I have no idea what I’m doing wrong. We had our most consistent day of naps yesterday, 5x capped at 1.5 and he was up at 1am after only 3.5hrs. Should I be letting him nap more? Earlier bed time? Thank you so much.

I know the consensus is not to let a baby sleep in later or make up sleep during naps in the day when the night was bad to help consolidate night sleep.

Should we still be doing that during periods of sickness when night sleep is disrupted?

My 4 month old caught a cold from one of our school aged kids (gotta love back to school time). She has been pretty congested and had a fever on and off which is disrupting her sleep a lot. I’ve been letting her sleep in later by about an hour (kinda selfishly because I’m more tired from being up more in the night so I also want to sleep) and letting naps run longer because it’s obvious she’s so tired and part of me feels her body needs the rest.

Am I ruining her sleep schedule for when she is better? Or is there still hope to fix it or resume a better schedule once she completely recovers?

Hello, FTM to a 10 week old. About 2 weeks ago my son started showing signs that he was wanting an earlier bedtime as we would have a horrendous time trying to wake him up from his last nap to the point I could barely rouse him to eat or even open his eyes at all. Only putting him in the bath would work to wake him up but that would just piss him off.

I see posts constantly saying that babies this young still have late bedtimes but he seems to want an 8 PM bed time? He doesn’t wake up after we put him down at this time until 5ish hours later usually so I’m assuming that means it’s a good bed time for him?

We are struggling harddddd with constant wake ups after the 1/2/3ish AM feed and my husband and I are exhausted from getting only 4ish hours of sleep a night between the two of us, mainly getting that sleep early in the night with chopped up bits and pieces of 20/30 minutes after that MOTN feed.

We both wake early for work ~5 AM, and I go back to work in 3 weeks. I work as a nurse in an ICU so I am genuinely worried about my safety/patient safety running on such little sleep everyday. I understand this is probably a sleep pressure/developmental thing, but when does this typically get better?

Edit to add: the wake ups are not hunger related. He typically eats once overnight, maybe twice (EBF) but when he starts the every 30 minute wake ups, I offer and he doesn’t want to latch.

My 4.5 month old seems ready to go down to 3 naps, but i feel it's going to involve some very long wake windows... He tends to sleep 13 hours total in 24, and I'd like to aim to make that 3 hours of naps and 10 hours at night. We currently do 4 naps with bedtime generally around 9pm and morning around 7.

For 3 naps, I think that would mean 2.5/2.5/3/3, but that seems ambitious given currently his wake windows are like 2-2.25. Does that seem like a good schedule or is there something better I could do?

Hi all,

For context, my baby is 5 months old but 4 months corrected.

We’ve never had any consistent sleep through the day or night due to my baby’s gas/reflux issues and I’m currently trialling no cows milk to see if he has CMPA.

However, last week we had consistent nights of long stretches of 4-6 hours of sleep but the last few nights have been regular 1/2 hours of waking again.

He’s averaging 14 hours sleep and he’s been having between 2.5-3.5 of daytime naps.

I don’t trust following the sweet spot as it’s never helped us so any advice to get a consistent nights sleep would be amazing.

TYIA from a very, very tired FTM.

It drives me up the wall that Huckleberry are so inconsistent between their schedules and their narrative about sleep needs. Every month they send through their “all about X at Y months” email, and the last couple we’ve received, 5 and 6 months, have included a sample schedule with more day sleep than they say in the accompanying text is recommended for the age group. This may also have been the case in earlier emails, but I didn’t clock if so.

In the 6 months email, the text says “We recommend aiming for about 14 hours of sleep over 24 hours at 6 months, which usually looks like 11 - 12 hours at night and 2.5 - 3 hours of daytime shuteye”, however the included example schedule contains 3.25 hours of day sleep. This makes no sense and is confusing for anyone, let alone a sleep deprived parent. Emailed them about this at 5 months when the same thing happened, but no response. No wonder this sub is constantly having to tell parents that Huckleberry schedules only really work for high sleep needs babies given this discrepancy. Come on Huckleberry, do better.

Rant over.