Hi Emma

Teething has been rough – I feel like we’ve gone backwards 😣

Baby is waking every two hours and it’s taking an hour plus to get her back to sleep.

I’ve tried just settling her without feeding, but I always end up feeding her and then I’m finding I put her down pretty much asleep and she wakes 10mins later and I have to start the whole…

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Hi Emma

Just thought I’d update you!

Baby is doing really well AND we have moved her into her own room.

She is going down for most naps and bedtime pretty much immediately now and she’s been self soothing between sleep cycles. She’s started to settle herself on her side, and this is what she does to self soothe when she wakes up.

She was…

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Thanks for this Emma.

It’s great to be reminded how much progress we have actually made and in a relatively short space of time. It’s hard to see it ourselves!

I have been completing the watch and listen step outside of the room with every nap and bedtime. The only thing I struggle with is when she fusses immediately as I try to put her down.…

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Hi Emma

With naps, we don’t really have a schedule as such – we watch for sleepy cues, and follow rough wake windows as a guide. Once we feel she’s tired and ready for a nap we’ll take her up to her room, close the blinds and curtains, put on the white noise, put her sleeping bag on, sing her a song and then put her down and work up and down…

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Hi Emma

We’re back to the two hour stretches 🫠

Baby is going down pretty easily, but she’s waking every couple of hours again.

I’ve been feeding her at every waking, and maybe need to start to give her a bit more time to get back to sleep – I’ve been feeding her to get her back to sleep quickly. Is there anything you’d suggest for trying to get…

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Hi Emma,

Again, trying not to get too excited but we had some great nights with stretches of up to four hours so I was feeling a bit more human!

Last night wasn’t brilliant. We’re having some problems getting her to take a full feed so she had a couple of false starts and then I ended up feeding her to sleep and then she was up every…

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