https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:39:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8836 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:57:44 +0000 yin 8836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>On not so great nights I would get anywhere from 2.5 to 4 hours of sleep. My LO is now 6 months old, and I'm averaging around 6-7 hours. One of the biggest reasons why I would get so little sleep was because of my pumping schedule (I'm an EP), and it took me the longest time to drop down to 1 middle of the night pump instead of 2-3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8763 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:21:11 +0000 Rubies 8763@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just started a thread on sleep-deprivation and I suppose this relates.</p> <p>My LO is going through a bad sleeping phase. She'll sleep (at night) for a 3-4 hour stretch and then she's up every. single. hour. In the last 5 days, I've been averaging 4-7 hours of sleep per day and it's taking a toll on my. I feel like my brain is fried! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8738 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:55:24 +0000 Green Thumb 8738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You guys are going to hate me!</p> <p>DD was up every 45 minutes for the first few nights. By her two week growth spurt she was up for 45 minutes every 2 hours eating and then would "marathon feed" from 3-7 am. But now, she sleeps from 10-4 straight through and then gets up again around 7. Last night she slept from 11-6! It's getting better (knock on wood) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8680 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:43:21 +0000 looch 8680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pre-baby, I was asleep by 10 and awake at 6:15. I need a lot of sleep!</p> <p>Now, my son goes down around 7:30 and I go soon after, I like to frontload on sleep in case he has a wake up in the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8678 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:39:50 +0000 pelikila 8678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son just isn't a great sleeper. We've had less than 6 nights total that he's slept through the night, the mom definition, not the medical definition. He goes down at 7pm and he wakes at 5:45am. When my son was a newborn he slept for 3 hours at a time (co-sleeping). At 2 months we transitioned him to his own crib (swaddled) and he'd sleep for anywhere from 1 to 3 hours at a time and would nurse back down within 20-30 minutes usually. At 5 months he'd sleep from 3 to 5 hours and would still nurse back down fairly easily. At 6 months we took away the swaddle and I stopped nursing him at night and he wakes 1 to 3 times a night but getting him back to sleep takes anywhere from 10 to 90 minutes (teething is a real pain, and not just for baby!). I think "normal" is still a long way off for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8421 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:47:39 +0000 Andrea 8421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am pretty spoiled in terms of sleep as my daughter started sleeping through at 8 weeks but she has never been a good napper so I guess it sort of evens out as I have always been really tired caring for her during the day time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8417 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:42:58 +0000 SAHM0811 8417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i slept pretty well throughout my first pregnancy. for my second though, the third tri insomnia 6was very apparent. i would wake up at 2 or 4am and have alot of trouble going back.... practice for what was to come? </p> <p>my 3.5 month old is sleeping pretty well, waking up once or twice to feed a night. once you have a baby, just a 4-5 hr stretch of sleep is nice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8411 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:32:00 +0000 Mrs. Bee 8411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i usually sleep from midnight until 7:30, waking up twice to pump, so I get about 6 hours of sleep. i'm so tired by late afternoon that i usually take an hour - hour and a half nap. so i get about 7 hours of sleep a day. i think producing milk just makes you tired!</p> <p>charlie started sleeping through the night at 4 1/2 months and that's when things got easier. i just hope and pray that olive turns out to be a good sleeper because sleeping through the night is such a blessing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lack-of-sleep#post-8396 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:12:31 +0000 mrsjyw 8396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've actually adjusted well from my wacky college days where my sleeping pattern was all over the place.</p> <p>I wake up at 730 every morning for work and usually go to bed around midnight. On the weekends, I sleep in until 830/9 and usually try to sleep before 2am. So overall, it's an average of 7-8 hours a night.</p> <p>For pregnant bees and mama bees, how much sleep do you get on average and at what stages does it get back to "normal"? </p>