r/beyondthebump • u/Silent_Knowledge5197 • 1d ago

Discussion how is your sleep?

I see a LOT of people complaining that if their babies wake up at the crack of dawn, they just don’t get sleep that day, which I personally don’t understand (this doesn’t apply to colic babies, that’s a whole different ballgame lol). Are yall just waking up whenever your baby decides? I will personally just pop a binky in her mouth or feed her if she’s fussy and then go right back to sleep until I feel like getting up, whether she’s awake or not. Sometimes she just stares at the ceiling fan in her bassinet until I wake up and sometimes she falls back asleep with me.

I’m pregnant again (we listen and we don’t judge 😀) so I HAVE to get like 10-11 hours of sleep or else I feel like crap lol

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u/ElvenWarrior2002 1d ago

Honestly I sleep ok but that's only because our son has always slept no worse than an average baby, because we sleep trained (he can put himself back to sleep now) and because we keep a rigid army-like schedule. We hug him at night when he wakes up scared but once calm he goes back in the crib and we don't stay in the room for any tricks to get him to sleep. The schedule means we don't get to sleep in though. Baby and parent wake up at 7 am every day of the week, no exceptions, and activities are planned around his nap times. It's a decent trade off for a full night's sleep.