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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Hi Emma

I don’t want to count my chickens too much, but last night I did the first watch and listen from outside of our room with the monitor. I didn’t watch and listen for as long as I’d have liked… she sleeps in a next to me crib with the side down, but as I was watching it looked as though she was going to roll out of it, so I had to rush…

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Hi Emma

Absolutely no consistency here at the mo!

She definitely flings her legs up and down during the day on her play mat, and when we’re changing her, but less so I think in her bed.

She hasn’t actually been doing it overnight for the past few nights. Instead she’s just grappling at her feet in her sleeping bag and is back to crying when she…

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Hi Emma

It certainly is a mixed bag at the minute!

I’m not managing to start trying the settling pyramid yet – baby is still quite aggressively trying to feed whilst I rock her after songs in our routine. I’m having to bounce her to settle her down as she is pulling at my top, sucking on me and getting quite upset.

So I’m ending up rocking her…

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Hi Emma

Yep, definitely a mix. Last night was back to the hourly wake ups which was not fun! She was feeding a lot every wake up, and she did a big feed this morning when she woke for the day at 5:30am (ugh) followed by another one only an hour later, so maybe she’s having a growth spurt??

My partner and I have agreed that we will try to put her…

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Thanks Emma.

We had the worst night yet two nights ago where baby was up every 45mins-one hour and there were two points in the night where she was up for two hours – the second till 5am when I eventually gave up and got up with her. The night before last was really good – she was up every two hours, but I fed her and she went straight back…

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Hi Emma

Bedtime has been ok. We’ve been feeding baby after her bath and pjs with lights on and then turning lights off and putting white noise and sleeping bag on. She definitely gets drowsy whilst feeding, so stopping that and getting her ready for bed is still waking her up fully and she’s not happy about not feeding to sleep! Tonight I ended…

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Just an update… tried keeping everything light and fed her with lights and everything on. She still started to drift off so I’m not sure if she got a full feed.

After putting her in her sleeping bag, closing blinds, turning lights off, putting on white noise she was WIDE awake and it took me about 15-20minutes to settle her by rocking whilst…

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Hi Emma

Answers below.

• What times does she typically wake up for feeds during the night?

We’re getting her to sleep by 7:30pm and usually she wakes up 45mins-1hour after that because she’s still hungry (because of falling asleep during feeding I think). Then she tends to wake at midnight, 3am (long wake up) and then not till 7am ish. The past…

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Hi Emma

Thanks so much for responding so quickly and in so much detail – this support is unbelievable!

In answer to your questions:

• Is the 3 am wake-up the only time she wakes up during the night? Or does she wake up at other times, but just has a feed and falls back to sleep quickly?

She wakes up at other times for a feed and then falls back…

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Hi Emma

We’re settled in pretty well in our new home, and actually our little girl didn’t really notice any of it so she hasn’t been disrupted at all which is great.

We’re back to where we were with sleep over a month ago and she is doing some fantastic stretches between 7:30pm and 7am, and this happened with very little intervention from us.…

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Thank you so much, Emma.

Still slowly working our way right through the course and trying to implement the pyramid technique but also aware that little one is about to go through a big change when we move house in a couple of days so I don’t want to cause too much disruption all at once.

She is definitely feeling better, and I think you were right…

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Hi Emma

I’ve just downloaded your course as my little girl is four months old and I wanted to set us up for the potential sleep regression.

At three months we had got her to a point of being put down in her cot awake and settling herself to sleep. But this didn’t last long and was soon replaced by crazy long pre-bed feedings (she’s combi-fed but…

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