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  • baby is almost 3 months old, still not sleeping through the night. I'm exhausted. will it ever get better? I feel desperate!

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    05.05.08, 01:06 PM [ Flag ]

    • yes - hang in there!

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      05.05.08, 01:06 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • when? how am I ever going to get anything done?

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        05.05.08, 01:07 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • You don't get much done for a while. Sleep whenever you can.

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          05.05.08, 01:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • It's hard - every kid is so different. Can you and dh alternate getting up? What kind of hours is he/she sleeping? Does he/she nap a lot during the day? We found the more ds slept in the day, the better he slept at night.

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          05.05.08, 01:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • all my kids started to sleep through reliably at around 18 months.

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          05.21.08, 07:44 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • pretty much no babies sleep through the night at 3 months. but some time in the next few months it should happen. it gets better, i promise!

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      05.05.08, 01:07 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • then why are we expected to go back to work at 12 weeks???!!!

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        05.05.08, 01:07 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Because this country sucks when it comes to work/life balance! Are you bf'ing? There may be some things you can do to encourage 3mo to sleep for longer periods of time...

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          05.05.08, 01:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • like what? please help! I'm really in a bad way.

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            05.05.08, 01:16 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

            • Well, if your baby weighs enough, you can try to soothe him/her back to sleep in the middle of the night instead of feeding. Make sure you're swaddling. You can also try to co-sleep, which might encourage longer periods of snoozing.

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              05.05.08, 01:24 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • beacuse men make the laws and women take care of the children

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          05.05.08, 01:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • your baby is so young. Very very young to be sleeping through. Are you sleeping with the baby near you, or with you?

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      05.05.08, 01:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • in a pack and play in my room, I want to move him to his own room but he nurses too often at night and going to another room is too exhausting

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        05.05.08, 01:09 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • definitely. Keep him in there as long as you need to.

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          05.05.08, 01:12 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • You can try to encourage him to go back to sleep w/o nursing one time per night. He will learn to make up for it at other feedings. I ebf'd for 13.5 months and was able (with luck, I KNOW) to get ds to sleep through the night at 8wks.

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          05.05.08, 01:27 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • it is a very rare baby who sleeps through the night at this age. dont let your friends get you down with their superbaby stories. it'll get better. trust us

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      05.05.08, 01:17 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • it will get better. hang in there.

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      05.05.08, 01:24 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Hang in there. my baby is 3 mo and wakes up twice. For my sanity, I pump before bed, which dh feeds to baby for first waking usually btw 1 and 3am. This way I am assured that he is very well fed when he wakes and doesn't necessarily need to feed much more. BF briefly for second waking at around 5am, though not always, sometimes he can be patted/stroked back to sleep

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      05.21.08, 07:15 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • you seem to have a very easy baby. I hate to say this but at around 4 months of age all hell will break lose. The infamous sleep regression will kick in.

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        05.21.08, 07:49 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • yes, it will get better, but try reading some books on sleeping. We were doing everything wrong with our dd, and after reading one of these books, we realized that while we couldn't sleep train that young, you can set yourself up for success.

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      05.21.08, 08:19 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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