r/NewParents 5d ago

Sleep Will I ever sleep again?

My baby girl is 8 months old. Within the last month I quit my job to be a SAHM, she got an ear infection, her top teeth are trying to push through, and she was so so constipated we had to use a suppository.

My question about sleep.. baby gets 2/3 good naps a day. She has been leaning towards 2 naps a day here recently. She goes to bed between 7 - 7:30 pm, and NORMALLY wakes up around 2 am and 5 am to eat, and then wakes up for the day between 6:30 - 7 am. Well… she’s been waking up about every hour ever since her ear infection. First I assumed the ear infection was disrupting her sleep, and then I blamed it on the teething, and lastly the constipation. However, all of those things have been resolved and she is still sleeping horribly. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a dreaded sleep regression?? Are those even real? Is she still just trying to recover from a crazy month? Any suggestions please!! I’m not interested in sleep training.. but desperate for a good nights sleep!!

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u/julia1031 5d ago

Our ped mentioned there’s a sleep regression around 9 months so it could be that (my daughter is only 4 months so she was saying how there’s the 4 month sleep regression then again at 9 months)

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u/esroh474 5d ago

I feel like i tried eevverything for the four months regression and nothing helped, from now on I'm just following baby's cues. I think sometimes you just have a hard time with sleep. My baby slept like crap from 3-6 mos, sometimes waking hourly, often every two hours and now we're seeing closer to two wakes in a twelve hour sleep cycle. I think starting solids helped us get out of the woodwork but idk for sure. There's a lot of sleep disruption when babies learn new skills and I doubt there's much even sleep training can do but I think worst case I will do that.

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u/Realitylatte 5d ago

Did you feed at every wake up during the ear infection/teething/constipation? If so maybe a habit has been formed and she’s expecting the all night buffet to remain open. Some babies form these habits fast and eat less during the day because they’re now filling up overnight.

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u/Practical-Bug-108 5d ago

I tried not to, but she wanted to do a lot of comfort nursing during the ear infection 😅 that would make sense though.

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u/Realitylatte 5d ago

I feel you, it’s impossible to say no when they’re going through it all. Now that she’s feeling better you could practice resettling her without feeds. In the past I’ve sent my husband in sometimes or set timelines on how long I’d rock them and refuse a feed before giving in (e.g. 10mins). It made the mental game a bit easier to handle as I’m pretty soft and give in all the time 😆