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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?

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.

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.

You guys are going to hate me!

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)

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.