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You probably don't remember this because it was so awful I'm not sure how much I really talked about it but in the beginning G used to get FIVE to 8 hours of overnight sleep. He was a worse sleeper as a newborn than he is now.
He now gets 10-11 hours overnight and I don't think he has ever gotten 12.
We have gotten down to 2 night feedings but haven't gotten past the 4 month sleep regression (he needs his paci replaced every 1-2 hours).

Luckily for us, we slowly adjusted bedtime (and.... surprisingly wake up time, too!) from 7 30 pm to 6 30 am to 8 30 to 7 30 in preparation for daylight savings time. This morning he woke at 6, not 6 30, but hey... close enough!

I think T may just need 11 hours, too.

PS G is 5 months.

@winniebee: Oh he knows how to replace it himself during the day... hahah, joke's on me.
Yeah, I have resorted to the swing thing a few times.

Actually come to think of it, the first 3 days in a row when I adjusted bedtime I resorted to the swing. It only gave me 30-45 minutes but that's better than 0! Maybe that will help?

My LO sleeps 12 hours or more overnight. But she doesn't take those long 3 hour naps that most kids her age do (or at least I hear they do). I figure as long as she's getting enough sleep total, that's what matters.

LO also goes from 7-6, with one feeding at night. I think it might be because she naps 3-4 hours during the day? I found that she would do a 12 hour stretch when she woke up twice during night.

Willa NEVER gets 12 hours....she is pretty much 10.5 like clockwork. If she goes down at 8, she is up at 630. Down at 7, she is up at 530. And she seems perfectly happy and content. I have tried not to mess with it because if I feel like if she is so regular about it than it is what her body needs.

It seems like they get similar amounts of sleep in 24 hours total (I remember someone making a thread asking about total). So some just get more during the day.

I think every child is different and 12 is just an average.

It depends on the night, but she usually gets 10.5-12.5 hours of sleep a night.

@c.sassy: HAHHAHAH. That is AWESOME. Must try it! We probably don't have enough pacis right now but I'll start with the 4 we have.

@winniebee: LOL!!

Honestly I think every kid is just different. I personally don't know one kid who sleeps more than 11 hours at night (in my circle of friends), including my DD. She sleeps 10-11 hours at night and she's 3 months old.

@winniebee: he slept from 7:30 - 5:30 for a long time. little by little his wakeup time got later. now he wakes up at 7:30, but his bedtime is 8:30. a lot of people i know cried out early morning wake ups and got their kids to wake up at 7 -7:30.

charlie slept 10 hours at night for pretty much a year+, just like olive has always slept a lot at night so i guess their sleep didn't change that much. your lo is still young, and many babies' sleep improves after 6 months. if naps lengthen, night time sleep might lengthen, but many many babies are just fine on 10 hours of sleep at night!

@winniebee: Yes, except now he gets up to party for two hours in the middle of the night. So he'll sleep 7-7 (or 6:30-7) but be up from 2-4 (or 1:30-4) and still only get 10 hours of sleep total. We just started working on transitioning him to putting himself to sleep, instead of being rocked, and I'm hoping that will cure his extended wakeups.