https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 03:25:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-2001245 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:35:49 +0000 Mae 2001245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: yea we had 0 time off/alone time for 8 weeks until LO was sleeping better through the night and I finally started staying up for 1 hr after we put her down. Before that it just did not seem worth it to me to have time off in trade for sleep. lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-2001222 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:26:47 +0000 SweetiePie 2001222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: Well according to KellyMom there are several in the first couple of months. </p> <p>"Common times for growth spurts are during the first few days at home and around 7-10 days, 2-3 weeks, 4-6 weeks, 3 months, 4 months, 6 months and 9 months (more or less). Babies don’t read calendars, however, so your baby may do things differently."</p> <p>So it's entirely possible that's where you're at right now!</p> <p>My almost-4-month-old started his 3-4 month growth spurt a couple of weeks ago, I think. Same thing happened where we were very comfortably on a 4 hour feeding schedule for about a month when all of the sudden he was acting ravenous every 2-3 hours and stopped sttn so he could eat twice. Drove me bonkers the first couple of nights but then I started to expect it and it got better (for me). And now almost 2 weeks later he seems to be back on a 4 hour schedule during the day and is starting to sleep longer stretches again at night. I'm exhausted but once I accepted that it was a spurt and he needed the food and wasn't trying to torture me, it got a lot more tolerable. :-) But it's still HARD and frustrating at times, so I sympathize! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-2001063 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:04:26 +0000 Adira 2001063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: haha, my night was the opposite! Logan kept me up until 1:00 a.m. last night!!! So I'm probably not one to give any advice! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-2001051 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:58:56 +0000 Freckles 2001051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: Haha, read the same article too. I thought he was going through a growth spurt during the 10 day mark...can he possibly be going through another growth spurt? You would think that i remember this stuff since this is #2, but i think us moms try to bury those memories so that we'll continue having kids. :silly: </p> <p>@Mae: I think i need to start going to bed earlier too, but LO1 has been going to bed at around 9pm and it's really only the 9-11 slot where i can get some down time. </p> <p>@Adira: He actually had a long stretch from 8:30 until 11:30 last night, but that's only because DH held him the entire time! I've only recently been able to start doing a loose EASY routine because in the beginning he was either nursing or sleeping. Before i would nurse him every 3 hours but now he wants to nurse every 1.5-2 hours!</p> <p>@snowjewelz: It's so hard for me to keep up with month threads...it took me 2 days just to reply to the thread i created! </p> <p>@gingerbebe: That sounded rough...you made me feel just a little bit better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-1998772 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 09:57:16 +0000 snowjewelz 1998772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is 3 weeks and longest is about 3 hrs too. </p> <p>She seems to cluster feed random times so I never know what my evenings are like! She also has a hard time going to sleep unless she was nursed and didn't get burped/changed after.</p> <p>Come into our Dec pp thread! We literally talk about this stuff all day long in there :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-1998704 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 08:11:06 +0000 gingerbebe 1998704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh my son screamed from 9-1am. That was his colicky witching hours. Then he might sleep 45 minutes at a time. During the day he rarely slept more than 20 minutes and would cluster feed from 3pm to 9pm. He was soooo hard as a newborn!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-1998522 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 21:02:53 +0000 Adira 1998522@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Logan's the same age (4 weeks tomorrow) and his longest stretch is also usually around 3 hours, but it happens a lot earlier than yours! His cluster feeding is usually between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m.. One of the things I try to do doing the day is never let him sleep longer than 2 hours, starting around 7:00 a.m. I've also been trying to make sure he gets awake time during the day by starting the EASY routine. I think that helps him distinguish between day and night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-1998476 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:16:43 +0000 Mae 1998476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sorry :( When LO was a newborn we got into a routine really early of going to bed between 9 and 10 every night. I would nurse LO to sleep and DH and I would just go to bed then too when she fell asleep. She was a good sleeper as a newborn so I was waking to feed every 3 hrs at that point rather than her waking us-- but don't worry she got us back with surprise horrible sleep starting at 3.5 mo and lasting until about 6 months. Hang in there! It sucks but we all make it through somehow!</p> <p>As for your other questions-- we were combo feeding after 3 weeks because my supply was so low that LO only gained 1 ounce from weeks 1-3. I can't remember how much we offered after every bottle, either 1 or 2 ounces. Although we actually did not offer overnight because she never wanted it then. The roughest part of our day was evening. She was hellish between 3-9pm every day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-1998475 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:16:02 +0000 SweetiePie 1998475@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So, I didnt nurse (I pumped for a month and bottle fed BM) but it sounds like it could be a 3 week growth spurt/cluster feed? I remember coming across this when I was in the newborn trenches. </p> <p><a href="http://kellymom.com/bf/normal/growth-spurts/" rel="nofollow">http://kellymom.com/bf/normal/growth-spurts/</a></p> <p>I think until 8 weeks or so the longest my guy slept was 3-4 hours at a time. We attempted to put him down for bed at 7pm (ie used a ritual/signals for bedtime vs just laying him down anywhere for a nap).<br /> Honestly though, I already cant fully remember those days, they are hazy :-) Mine is 15 weeks and i don't remember the newborn nitty gritty, just that it was kinda sucky. :-) Hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-evenings-like-with-your-newborn#post-1998438 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:12:23 +0000 Freckles 1998438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What's the longest stretch your newborn will sleep? What time does it happen? When is the roughest part of your evening?</p> <p>LO2 is 3.5 weeks old and we are finding that we can't get him to sleep on his own between 10:30pm and 1am...last night I don't think he went to sleep until 2am! I must have nursed him every 45 minutes. His longest stretch is usually 3 hours, from around 5:30am.</p> <p>I feel like my supply takes a dip in the evening, which is why he wants to keep nursing. Anyone doing any bottle top ups after nursing?</p> <p>I forgot how tiring the newborn stage was! :sad: </p>