Do you follow Nurture magazine on FB? If not, you should. Every now and then they put up a post that says "How old are your children and how often did they wake last night? Let's normalise night wakings!"

I love that post. One time I commented "5, 3 and 1. The 1yo is still feeding about 2-3 times a night. The 3yo is mostly out like a light once he's asleep. The 5yo still wakes once a night maybe 3 or 4 times a week and needs my help to go back to sleep - a drink, a cuddle, someone to soothe her fears. And I'll go to her every time she calls, for as long as she calls."

That's the truth, that was my reality. Then later I saw my sister's SIL and she said to me "thanks for that comment you made on the Nurture post, it made me feel better about still getting up to DD."

There's such a stigma around night wakings. If your child isn't sleeping through at 6mths, at 12mths, something must be wrong. We must fix it. We must buy a new sleeping bag/wrap/book to try and help us work them out. When so often it's us that needs to work it out - there's nothing wrong with your beautiful baby boy wanting mum at night. It is normal. Completely normal.

Just like Nurture says. Lets normalise night wakings.