LO is eight weeks and typically sleeps an initial 3.5-4 hour stretch at night, followed by wake-ups every 2-3 hours. His bedtime has been around 9, and he's usually up for the day 6:30-7ish. Any of this sound normal?? Wondering when these stretches of sleep will lengthen.... This is one sleepy mama!!
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LO is 7 months old and still not STTN
She's had several nights in the past where the first stretch was 7-8 hours, but she's never slept 7-7. What you're going through sounds normal to me.
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LO is 19 months old and still not STTN... I would suggest NOT bf to put back to sleep/soothe when he's a little bit older. I think that was our problem and she STILL wants to be nursed at each wakeup. So tired.
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That sounds normal - they might stretch out after 12 weeks and they might not - haha - hard to say really.
My kids slept good from time to time but neither STTN until after they turned 1
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i think the answer will be all over the map, and what you're going through sounds pretty normal (unfortunately). one thing i tried around that point was waiting about 5-10 minutes to see if LO would settle down by himself. sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't, so i'm not sure if it made a big difference, but he started sleeping 9.5 hour stretches around 4 or 5 months. we were then plagued by 4 or 5am wakeups for a loooooooooong time.
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Sounds totally normal.
C is 7.5 months and seems to be moving towards STTN, finally!
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Sounds normal to me. My EBF son STTN at 1 year. My 3 month old EBF daughter wakes every 2 hours right now. Her sleep was actually better a few weeks ago with just 2 night wake ups.
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First DS, not until 1.
Second DS is almost 5 months and seems to be settling into a two-wakeup pattern.
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DD only STTN after sleep training. We first trained at 6.5 mo and she STTN for one glorious week, but then we went on vacation... Then she got a cold... And so on. We re-trained at 9.5 mo and she STTN until we weaned, when she started randomly waking up at 5:30/6:00 to eat. So we re-trained again. Sigh.
Fwiw, when I say STTN, I mean bedtime to up for the day - for DD, that is 7:30-7:00-ish.
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@Foodnerd81: Oh please let M be close behind! Her cold/ear infection really threw everything off
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@MCD919: I EP, but it's still bm and my 8 month old does not sleep through the night. However, when she's not sick she typically sleeps 7:30 or 8 pm until 1-2 am, then again until 5-6 am, then again until 7:30 when she is up for the day.
My husband and I both wake up by 6 for work, so that's only 1 wakeup in our night and 2 wakeups in her night.
Baby sleep is hard!
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Mine are 9.5 months old and I'm still waiting! One wakes up once to eat around 2:30, the other is up every 2-4 hours still!
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@MCD919: sounds totally normal to me. DD is almost 18 weeks and sleeps 5-7 hours, wakes up for a quick diaper change and feeding and goes back to sleep for another 2-3 and then if she wakes up again I bring her into bed with me if it's still pretty early.
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@MCD919: first time she slept from bedtime to morning, about 11.5 hours, was at 10 months.
We got occasional 5 hour stretches before that. She was a crappy sleeper though. -
@Trailmix: You deserve a medal. I am exhausted and I only have one...I can't imagine twins!
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Both LOs stopped waking up at night by eight weeks...8-10 hour stretches. LO 1 nursed and drank pumped milk. LO 2 did not take a bottle consistently until she was 18 weeks old.
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@lawbee11: Yeah, she had a vomiting episode last night that clearly threw everything off, but 4 out of the last 6 nights, she STTN. It. Is. Amazing. Life changing. I hope M is right behind-- they usually are right on track with each other
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DS is 8 months old and still wakes up every hour/hour and half. Ahhhh!
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Our EBF daughter started to STTN on her own with no sleep training at 11 weeks and did so consistently for 6 weeks until we went on vacation - the jet lag plus 4 month sleep regression/rolling over and having to swaddle wean killed it. We were at 2-3 night wakeups for a while after that, then some mild sleep training at 6 months to get down to 0-2 wakeups (wait 5 min to try to let her settle herself, and try not to nurse to sleep). Now at 8 months she might go back to it - we had a couple of STTN and consistent one wakeup nights the past week.
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9 months old and we have anywhere from 3 to 6 wake ups/feedings a night.
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Thanks everyone. Random people are asking if he's sleeping through the night yet and I just want to kick them!! I'm not opposed to some sleep training down the road, but he's way too young right now. Blah
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DD was sleeping six hours without eating at five weeks, eight hours at eight weeks, twelve hours at eleven weeks.
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LO is 20 months and has never slept through. Some kids take a lot longer to sleep without wake ups. DS usually wakes up, fusses, sometimes has a drink or some milk, and then goes back to sleep, it's rare that he needs more than a minute or two of my attention. Still tiring though so I hope you have better luck!
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12 weeks and only one or two hiccups since (4 month regression, teething).
She's had several nights in the past where the first stretch was 7-8 hours, but she's never slept 7-7. What you're going through sounds normal to me.
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