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T will be 5 months in a week. He is in his crib 12 hours and has at least 1, but more typically 2 wakeups. It's pretty random these days though when the wakeups happen. I don't count it a wakeup unless I go in there to feed him or soothe him. Sometimes he sleeps 4 hours, wakes to eat, then sleeps 6 more, eats then sleeps 1. more. On another night, he might sleep 7 hours, eat, then 3, eat, then 1. If we're lucky, 9 hours, eat, then maybe 2 more.

Last night, he went to bed at 7, woke up at 11 crying as he was on his belly and couldn't figure out how to fall asleep....but then only ate 3 oz before passing out again. Then he slept til 6, woke to eat, and then slept til 7:30.

Usually once a night he'll wake up and cry a little but fall back asleep immediately before I even go in there. Lately, I have noticed he does not eat greedily at night feedings - he takes a little for comfort/to help him get back asleep but he's not starving or even really interested in filling his belly. As such, even though I'm awake every time he cries, I wait at least 5 minutes before going to him.

From about 3.5-4.5 months, he was waking every 3 hours for one reason or another.

Not sure if this is helpful....

We are very spoiled. My lo is 14 months. Since 2 1/2 months she's been sleeping 12 hours straight, with few exceptions like last week when she woke up because she had diarrhea. But that's very rare. I just changed her diaper, gave her some milk, and she went right back to sleep.

@artbee: jealous!

@winniebee: That's why I thought my LO was just having a growth spurt at the beginning of the 'bad times'. But he kept eating like that for weeks and it was getting to be more and more frequently.

Pastemoo, what I did was assume growth spurt or wonder week or whatever until it lasts more than a week.

Othewise, the Healthy Sleep book says it is 'normal' for 2 feedings overnight through to 9 months or so. I feed mine for all wakeups, so we never have 'nonfeeding' wakeups. These days (post sleep regression) we are wake-feeding 2 or 3 (and sometimes even 4) times per night.

Does your guy ever put himself back to sleep? Mine needed to (re)learn how to do that before our nighwaking issue resolved.

@krsmall: I feel the same way - though I think T is pretty cozy in the 5th.....

My daughter had her 4 month sleep regression at 5 months, and at 13 months, she's never gone back to STTN like she did then. Something really huge changes at that time in the way they sleep.

Around 4 months old, C started calorie-loading in the afternoons. She would only wake up once to eat and then eat very little in the morning but she'd pig out from about noon on. At 5.5 months, we hit a roadbump when she forced me to wean her from the swaddle. We had 3 or so weeks of HELL where she was basically a newborn and waking up every 2-3 hours again. It seems to finally have evened out now. She 6 months old and I think we're FINALLY STTN again. Down at 6:15pm, up at 7:30am. Last night, I did feed her at 5:45, but she wasn't really interested and she could have done without it.

LO is 9 months and sometimes wakes up once during the night for a feeding ( breast), but not always. I'd say maybe once or twice a week, she'll wake up once for a feeding. The rest of the nights, she sleeps through. She's been this way since 3 months.

LO is 13 weeks and she usually wakes up around 3:30am (almost on the dot). Some nights she'll make it until 4 or 5am - even 6 am a couple times. I rarely feed her at 3:30 because if I pick her up and give her a binky, she'll fall back asleep. Sometimes she can go back in her crib and other times she'll have to come to bed with me but she'll sleep. The other night I did feed her because she has a cold and I wanted to make sure she was getting enough fluids. It didn't impact how late she slept.

Prettybaby was on the clock at 4 months, up twice every night, and then 5 months, boom, slept through the night.