I can't get my 6 month old to sleep longer than about 9 hours at night. Even if I put her to bed earlier she just wakes up earlier. She is taking two 2-3 hour naps during the day. Is 9 hours normal? I feel like it should be more.
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I voted 10, although it can be 11. He sleeps from about 7:40 or 8 to 6:15-6:30. But I also do a dream feed at 11.
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Wish I could give some insight but we co-bed so it skews things a tad. I have no where near 9 hours
dream feeds happen...
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Is this total, or just a stretch before eating?
Xander sleeps 7:30 - 9:00, then 9:30 - 5:00, then 6:00 - 7:00, so total he gets about 10 hours, but the longest stretch he's ever given me is 8 hours straight. Hope that makes sense!
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@Adira: this is all together. She *usually* doesn't wake up during the night. But I've tried feeding her in the morning and getting her back to sleep but it never works.
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I voted 12 (6pm-6am) however, at 6 months DD was still waking twice a night for a feed.
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between 10.5 and 11 hours. while 9 might be on the lower end of the spectrum compared to others, it's not terribly low and sounds like she's getting very ample naps. if you would like her night sleep to be longer, though, would you consider shortening her naps? maybe each could be 2 hours? however if things are working for you guys as is, i wouldn't mess with it unless you would like her to sleep longer at night as opposed to having longer naps.
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9 hours sounds decent, but should be closer to 10-11 hours. Once we sleep trained, LO sleeps about 11 hours a night. Before sleep training, it was a jumbled 7-8 at best.
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@Purpledaisy: Xander usually has trouble falling back asleep after his 5:00 a.m. feeding, but he's chill enough that I can just leave him in the crib while I get ready for work, and he usually EVENTUALLY falls back asleep. Sometimes it takes 30-40 minutes though!
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They've been doing (minus F's weird night wakings lately) is going to sleep between 7-7:15 and waking up for the around 6:30 or 7, but with one wake up for a bottle sometime between 3-5:00.
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I think dd was sleeping more like 10-11 hrs but given your lo's long naps it might be enough.
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@Purpledaisy: The total hours of sleep is good, but I think the naps are too long (6 hours total!)... so it's affecting the night sleep. At 6 months, they should be getting about 3-4 hours total for naps, and about 11 hours at night. So around 15 hours of total sleep.
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R has been doing 12 hours overnight with one wakeup in between
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Between 11 and 12 at night with about 3.5 of naps.
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@Mrs. High Heels: yeah her naps are kind of crazy. She's always been a long napper. But it actually really limits what we can do during the day because she needs to nap or else she's sooo cranky! I would love to get some of those nap hours transferred to her night sleep!
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Mostly 12
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@Purpledaisy: that's pretty amazing!
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LO is 6 months and sleeps a pretty consistent 10 hrs per night and about 3 hours of napping during the day. She seems well rested and not overtired.
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LO will be 6 months on Sunday and sleeps from 7:30 to 6-7 am. She sleeps ~2.5 hrs during the day. And her night sleep is straight through.
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Wow! Those are some monster naps! Probably why she isn't sleeping as long at night? I've read at this age, they should be sleeping 15-16 hours total in 24 hours. So sounds like she is almost there!
She usually sleeps ~12 hours, but often has 1 night waking (after ~8 hours). I actually don't mind that waking, because I can feed her, she goes back to sleep and then I usually get more than 12 hours). FWIW, my LOs naps SUCK! 20 min. average. I think she's napped a grand total of 83 min. today.
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Of course the day that I post this she is a horrible napper and has been fussy ALL day! But maybe it will improve her night sleep tonight. Trying to look on the bright side!
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So yesterday she only napped for two hours during the day and she slept last night from 9:45pm to 10:30am with one morning feeding where she was up from 7-8. I think I'm going to have to limit her naps. Even though waking a sleeping baby just seems wrong! Lol
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@Purpledaisy: Glad that sort of works! I've tried doing the reverse - waking from sleeping earlier - but it has never garnered more hours of naps.
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@Purpledaisy: I've always woken my sleeping babies if they sleep too long! In the beginning it was to avoid day/night confusion and then later on it was to preserve night sleep.
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@Purpledaisy: I only have one LO but did the same as @Mrs. High Heels!
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charlie was an early riser until we really limited his naps. i've always woken both kids though when they sleep too long. they reorganize their sleep eventually if you limit their daytime naps.
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I voted 12 because we would put her down at 6:30pm and she would wake at 6:30am but we also at that time did a 10:30pm dream feed and a 3am night feed inbetween.
dream feeds happen...
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