Hi Emma,

Just wanted to give you a final update that you were absolutely right about moving her morning wake up time to earlier. This completely solved the issue with her night sleep. And even though we now have to wake up much earlier, it’s better than having a crappy night and waking up later.

If she wakes up at ~6:30, we have enough time to…

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Hi Emma,

Thank you for your words 🙂 I was actually surprised to find out how often this sort of thing happens when I was frantically googling what symptoms to watch for that morning… One more advantage of breastfeeding, I suppose 🙁 Anyway… These couple of weeks made me realize how much we took for granted her stable night sleep and ability…

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Hi Emma,

Sorry I haven’t answered for a while, I am so sleep deprived one night I’ve actually accidentally gave my baby water without the formula (she’s fine, since she never ate much at night, so that was a small amount, but this was a new low for me).

Since the last time I’ve made a couple of improvements and I’d even go so far as to…

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Hi Emma,

I’ve just about given up on the fourth nap, so your proposal sounds great. But I don’t really understand what you mean by gently stretching the wake times. Do you mean we ignore the tired cues for some time in order to stretch it? Won’t that make her overtired and more difficult to settle? Do we extend the wake windows little by…

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Hi Emma,

I can’t say anything’s changed when the trouble started. The baby (almost 4 months old now) is happy and healthy and doing insane amounts of tummy time (you put her on any surface – she’ll immediately roll 99% of the time, yet she’s still completely uninterested in rolling back even if she’s so tired she’s struggling to lift her…

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Hi Emma,

I wanted the update to be positive as I’d been super successful for a while, getting her to sleep without the bottle most times and even resettling her without walking around again, at most sitting on the bed with her in my arms. But just as I thought we might move on to getting her to sleep while im sitting… something happened.

It’s…

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Hi Emma,

Yes, the side-lying position, that’s the name I was looking for when I said I sort of cradle her! It’s very successful when her crying gets out of control (like after vaccination or even just if we let her stay up much too long), but she’s been fighting it lately. I think she either figured out that it’s being used exclusively to make…

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Hi Emma,

Please take your time and I hope your daughter gets better soon. In the meantime I keep attempting to get mine to sleep in my arms and then transferred to the crib. We have good days (4 out of 5!) and bad days (yeah… zero the next days). Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, but again no stress

Sure 🙂 If we’re talking a typical day and not outliers like 3 naps a day and/or longer naps, it’s now like this (I could send you screenshots from the app im using, where everything seems to like up nicely, but I don’t see an attachment button…):

13-15 hours total sleep (most often around 14h, and the difference is made up of night wakings that…

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Hi Emma,

That does sound good, but we run into the next problem: once she’s asleep in my (or my husband’s) arms, we transfer her into the crib (or even just our bed to make it easier, but it doesn’t help), she immediately starts moving frantically and whining, not yet fully awake but obviously seeking the bottle. If we try soothing her…

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Hi Emma,

The heatwave has passed where we live, but we generally have a rather hot summer until the end of September, which can be really uncomfortable between climate change and Austrian aversion to AC… luckily, outside of heatwaves even though the days are up to 30 degrees, the nights are around 16-18.

I think we’ve more or less stabilised her…

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Hi Emma,

Sorry I didn’t answer for a bit, wanted to gather some data 🙂 Then quite a few things happened…

First of all, I’ve been trying the new routine you suggested for a few days with moderate success. Things looked really hopeful. But then she caught on to being picked up in order to be rocked to sleep, and she started clutching at my arm and…

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Hi Emma,

The heatwave should break today, hopefully. I think by Monday things will have gone back to normal. But I’m already trying, just not very insistently. Her feeding is still all chaotic and I can’t carry her around long enough in this weather, we both get uncomfortable before she gets sleepy.

Most times she’ll still demand the bottle. One…

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Hi Emma,

Thanks for acknowledging there is an issue, people around me tend to say I overthink things 🙂

First, regarding her bedtime/wake-up times, I would say they are mainly within 30-60 minutes most of the time, with some occasional hiccups, but lately (for the last 2 days, yet to see how today’s bedtime works out…) she tends to wake up…

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Hi Emma,

Thanks for the questions, this will give me a chance to structure this a bit in my own head. The only problem is our schedule is somewhat disrupted by the heat wave that recently hit Europe, since Austria is not big on AC. I think the baby is more or less comfortable (she now sleeps uncovered in a short-sleeved bodysuit instead of…

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Hi Emma,

Thanks to your courses we were able to figure out and resolve the evening crying issues (which we now have only very rarely since 5 weeks old as we’ve been keeping better sleep times and the baby doesn’t get overwhelmed anymore, so I guess that wasn’t colic at all). But there’s one thing that I’m very worried about, especially now…

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Hi Emma,

Thanks for the reassurances 🙂 It’s not easy accepting that something that seems to hurt your child might just be a normal phase.

We’ve been to see our midwife (who’s awesome) and she said the baby, while being generally healthy and gaining weight nicely (and growing fast… she’s a tall slim baby, and I often wonder if her height is…

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Hi Emma,

Thanks for your suggestions!

I don’t think we have some serious health issue, tbh – she did fantastically in her tummy times since I wrote you, and she does turn her head from side to side on her own (e.g. changing position while sleeping in the crib). We bottle feed and she seems to be equally fine feeding on either side. She is…

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Hi Emma,

For the past couple days we’re having difficulties getting our newborn to sleep because she suddenly seems to hate being held (while at the same time hating not being held). Maybe you have an idea what’s going on here? First-time parents, don’t have a clue…

Where before she especially enjoyed sleeping on her belly on my…

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