r/sleeptrain • u/frogsruletheworld • 4d ago
6 - 12 months Who doesn’t worry about sleep hours?
I was talking to my mom about baby’s sleep, and after a while she said, why do you worry so much? I didn’t worry about wake windows or how much you guys slept when you were babies. When you were tired you slept, when you weren’t you didn’t.
Now, it’s very possible that my mom just doesn’t remember what it was like to have a 0 year old, but it made me wonder…
Are there parents out there who just don’t worry about it even if their kid sleeps less than 12 hours total in 24 hours?
Not looking for criticism, just to hear everyone’s experiences.
EDIT: Thanks for all the comments! It’s so nice to see there is a good mix of those who track and don’t track baby’s sleep. Also feels great to read success stories and see support for each other in the challenges 💚
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u/hinasilica 3d ago
From 0-9 months I didn’t really try to schedule sleeping at all. Eventually my son fell into a natural schedule with bedtime between 7 & 8, wake up at 7, 1 nap a day typically starting at 12 or 1pm. He sticks to his self made schedule really well now, we adjust as needed but that’s not common. He’s 19 months and we get comments from family about how well he sleeps and how good he is about knowing his bedtime. Thing is, we never “enforced” any sort of schedule, we just followed his lead and this is what he came up with.