Easier at 3 months?

ColleenS629 · January 2012

All of my MoM friends told me it would get easier at 3 months. My LOs will be 3 months on Wednesday so I am calling BS on that one unless their sleeping, napping, crying is going to drastically change in three days. They are still only sleeping 3-5 hours as their longest nighttime stretch. They require major help falling asleep for the night and for naps. They sleep for 20-40 minutes for naps before waking up and needing help getting back to sleep. I feel like such a crappy mom because I am so run down from lack of sleep and I can only attend to one baby at a time (I know that part won't change but I'm hoping to have more patience with myself after getting some consistent sleep). So honestly... when did it really get easier for you?

eyelovemascara · January 2012

I figured it was still hard at 3 months because of the whole gestational age and being early thing. For me it really got easier around four and a half to five months (although its all a blur now....LOL)

MrsLoos · January 2012

Night time sleep definitely improved for us right around 3 months, but once they were closer to 4 months they started sleeping 6-8 hours consistently every night. We are just now getting into a regular nap routine and they are sleeping 90 minutes to 2 hours for naps now, they just turned 5 months on Saturday.

I feel like 4 months is when it started to get easier and it's gotten better everyday. I can finally leave the house and run an errand with them without the fear of a melt down!

Hang in there! It WILL get easier!

CaliDutchGrl · January 2012

4 months. This was the age that they would sleep for at least 6 to 8 hours at night.

SoldiersGreenBean · January 2012

I say 6 months.

Rangergal9 · January 2012

Things didn't get easier for us until 4 months... thats when they were STTN (6pm-6am). 3 months was kinda rough because they must have been going through a growth spurt and didn't want to sleep too well at night!

caden · January 2012

Oh man, I very clearly remember typing out a super long sob story post on this board when my kids were just past 3 mo. I literally cried while I was typing about how things were not taking a turn for the better at the 3 mo mark. Everyone told me it was really more like 4mo and that was true for me. Maybe a week before they hit 4mo I figured out a few things and it got easier. My boys are 16mo now and nothing has come close to being as hard as those first 4 months. So you're in the homestretch IMO.

Lithgirl · January 2012

uuummmm, our twins are 6 months old and i'm still waiting for it to get better. on occasion A will sleep a 7 hour stretch at night but J thinks the snack bar is open all night long.

stalking this post to see answers.

Mrs. Alice · January 2012

Mine are 4 months adjusted. Things started getting much better a few weeks ago. The "witching hour" of senseless screaming and fussing in the evening is over, they can play and entertain themselves with toys and their own hands for periods of time, they take naps on and off all day, and they STTN. However right around 3 months adjusted they had a CRAZY few days where they were horrible (I shudder thinking about it). I think they were having a growth spurt or something, it was nuts and I was all by myself. I could definitely cope better when I was well rested from them STTN. I hope it happens soon for you!

Darcie Elicia · January 2012

The whole "it gets easier at 3 months" thing is such a lie. It helped me to endure the first 3 months but after we got there and nothing had changed it was such a let down. In all reality, it didn't get a lot easier for us until 6.5 months when they started sttn. 5 months was when things were markedly improving. Just keep doing what you're doing and you'll get there!!! It will come sooner than you think, I promise.

MrsLnt · January 2012

I remember living for the 3 month mark and thinking "wtf? it's not better!" Mine dropped their 2:30 am feeding at 11w 3d and that was a huge improvement but not a ton else changed. It was only good for a few weeks at that point because then we had to de-swaddle and sleep went to hell. I'd say from 6 months forward, it got easier each month, and every month since 9 months (when we finally did CIO and got consistent STTN) it's been downright fun.

vakatiebug28 · January 2012

It got easy and then harder again in waves. There was an easier period between 3 and 4 months. Unfortunately, we then went through 4 month wakeful in a serious way. Around 6 months it got easier again but then they started teething and crawling. Around 10 months we started to get longer periods of sleep at night and it's been consistently easier since then. (Even though they still aren't sleeping through the night and the past week they have started to refuse their a second nap.)

The book The Wonder Weeks really helped me. The authors talk about how there are 10 (I think) predictably fussy periods in the first 14 or so months. Just when you can't take it anymore, they're usually going through a period of intense development. They'll make some sort of developmental leap and then things will get better for a while.

Good luck!

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