https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 21 May 2026 23:19:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1339064 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 07:12:49 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1339064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Worst was about 4 but usually 2-3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1339062 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 07:08:40 +0000 delight 1339062@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went through a rough patch last month with 4-5 wake ups. Now that I put her down awake and she can settle herself we are back on track. She is 5 months And most nights she typically wakes up once between 5-6am for a feed and back to sleep for a couple hours. We do have two wake ups occasionally but the first usually happens before I go to bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1339028 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 03:03:35 +0000 mediagirl 1339028@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: once we stopped nursing to sleep, it got better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1339027 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 03:00:03 +0000 mediagirl 1339027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha. Up to 6. Never less than 3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338968 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:14:52 +0000 Kemma 1338968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From memory we were having 1-2 night wakeups at around 5-6 months and we're still having as many at fifteen months:-)</p> <p>We mainly nurse to sleep but LO can put herself to sleep and will occasionally STTN and she's big on waking for comfort! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338911 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:13:19 +0000 meganmp 1338911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1, until I found the glory of all glories, the Baby Merlin Magic Sleep Suit. I was still swaddling them at that point, and wanted a good transition. I didn't even have to MOTN wean them, they did it on their own. Heaven! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338907 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:10:21 +0000 mrsjyw 1338907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>zero, he night weaned pretty early around three months. he was a big baby (8 lbs 11 oz at birth)... once he hit 12 lbs, he was sttn 12 hours. he did have a month of early wakeups/nursing at 5am around six months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338893 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:52:17 +0000 rattles 1338893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>About 4-5 times a night every night until we finally tried CIO at 9.5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338580 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:53:43 +0000 Sparkler 1338580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had 3 wake ups at that age... 1130, 2 and 4. At around 6 months we started a dream feed of formula and that would usually eliminate the first waking. Our LOs sleep deteriorated after 7 months though and the dream feed did nothing, so we stopped that. Then with traveling, visitors and illnesses by 9 months she was basically up from 930 on...she demanded comfort nursing/holding by mom only and would scream when we put her in the crib. Since no one was sleeping and everyone was suffering (I had no patience with my son, was picking fights with my husband, overwhelmed at work) so we sleep trained at 9 months (we had tried previously tried and were too weak)! After a week of sleep training (my husband would do checks when crying escalated and I would wait to feed after 5 hours), our LO is only getting up once at 4am and we are in heaven. My daughter is so much happier, takes amazing naps now and I feel like a real person again! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338496 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:16:53 +0000 Arden 1338496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD is nine months and she "wakes up" around 4-6 times a night to nurse. I put that in quotations because she usually doesn't wake up, she just fusses as she roots around for my breast and then settles back to sleep as she nurses.<br /> It affects my sleep very little though, I usually don't even fully wake up to feed her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338334 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:09:02 +0000 Adira 1338334@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Xander would nurse around 6:00/6:30 and go to bed by 7:30. Then we'd do a dreamfeed at 9:00, he'd wake up to eat around 5:00, and then up for the day at 7:00. So I'd say we technically had two MOTN feeds, but one was on my terms. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338317 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:54:30 +0000 JessKas 1338317@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 5 months on Monday and she wakes up 2-3 times a night. She goes down at 8 and wakes up around 7-8am, with wake-ups around 11, 2-3, and 5-6. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338305 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:48:13 +0000 mrsbookworm 1338305@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3-4 times per night at 5 months. Now he's 8 months and still wakes 3 times per night, 2x if I'm lucky :sad: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338293 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:42:22 +0000 Sapphiresun 1338293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She usually goes down at 9:30 and wakes up maybe 3-4 times before getting up for good at 8am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338175 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:31:32 +0000 sslm 1338175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NurseMommy: same!!!!!! Ugh. Glad I'm not alone but wtf? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338071 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:30:58 +0000 sandy 1338071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Zero for us too starting around 3 months. Once time she woke but I was slow to get her bc I had to use the bathroom...she went back to sleep before I got to her. The next night I intentionally took my time and she fell back asleep before I went in there. She just started sleeping through after that. Every once in awhile she would wake in the middle of the night but if I just left her she always fell back asleep on her own after a few minutes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338043 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:15:00 +0000 autumnlove 1338043@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Zero. She woke up twice this week on days I skipped solids...she is also teething! 8 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1338037 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:11:12 +0000 Foodnerd81 1338037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: They really are twins-- 11 is the time she most often wakes up and cries or fusses a little! If she doesn't settle herself, I make DH go in and rock her, because if I go in, she wants milk and nothing else will do. Plus.... by then I'm usually in bed and don't want to get out and know i will in a few hours, so it's only fair that he does it, but I say it's because of the milk thing :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337994 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:24:21 +0000 dolphin 1337994@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At that age 0-1. Starting from 9 months to now she wakes up 1-2x. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337937 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:35:57 +0000 immabeetoo 1337937@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Two and dropped one shortly after that age </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337934 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:32:57 +0000 hilsy85 1337934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: I do think 2 is still normal at that age! I agree with waiting it out and seeing what happens--I bet she will drop one on her own soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337926 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:25:51 +0000 lawbee11 1337926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@illumina: I definitely don't expect her to sleep 12-13 hours without any wakeups...but dropping to 1 would be so nice!!</p> <p>@hilsy85: I'm going to give it a little more time and see what happens. It sounds like she's about average right now. She sometimes will fuss/whine around 11 but we've been letting her CIO (usually she's back down in less than 5 min) and she hasn't done it in a few days so I am hoping that's over with. I know you did Ferber where you didn't feed before 2am but she rarely wakes before 2 (if she does it's something like 1:50) so I am not sure what else I can do because I think it's totally plausible that she'd be hungry going 7 hours since her last feed. </p> <p>@Foodnerd81: Ha come on girls...let's get to 1 wakeup!! They're sleep twins so if C does it M will do it, too :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337907 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:08:42 +0000 ALV91711 1337907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Every 2-3 hours all night every night. It was rough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337899 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:03:32 +0000 Smurfette 1337899@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@aprk: Hey stranger!</p> <p>5 months and R regressed majorly. She was STTN or getting up around 4/5 to eat. Then it started getting earlier and earlier. Next thing I knew we were back to 3 or 4 wake ups. Asleep by 7, started waking up at 1030, that one DH could rock her back asleep. She could still fall asleep on her own but she relied in us to get her back asleep. So we had to resleep train at 6 months. Our pedi recommended it and DH was glad that he had back up cause he wanted me to do it weeks earlier. I will say that 5 months she was getting her first two teeth and they were the roughest for her so far. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337839 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:21:10 +0000 Foodnerd81 1337839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Last week, exactly what you wrote, right down to the occasional 1 and occasional 3. </p> <p>This week she is starting to edge towards 1 more often. She will wake up sometimes and fuss, but not cry and eventually fall back to sleep, so I'm trying to let her fuss longer and see how it goes (up until a certain point in the night-- like, wake up before 3, let her fuss and hope she goes back to sleep, after 3, just go in and feed her.) One wake up I can absolutely deal with... 2 I'd really like to cut back. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337824 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:10:42 +0000 Bao 1337824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: Same exact as you. She would wake around 12-1am and then early morning 4-5am give or take on both ends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337799 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:58:03 +0000 MoonMoon 1337799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Um...a lot more than 2! The 4 month sleep regression was no joke for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337798 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:57:58 +0000 Greentea 1337798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3-4 sometimes more. She is 7mo. and up a lot... teething and up every 2.5 to 3. But kinda whimpering the whole time :( just cut her first tooth! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337795 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:56:40 +0000 hilsy85 1337795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2-5 depending on the night--it was rough!! It was bad until we sleep trained at 6.5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-motn-wakeups-was-your-ebf-baby-having-at-5-months#post-1337774 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:47:39 +0000 SproutBee 1337774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My little guy is 4.5 mo and usually wakes twice a night (3/3:30am and 5/5:30am). Every once in a while he'll just give me one wake up around 4:30 or 5. </p>