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I just went back to my due date thread and my DD was sleeping 5 and 6h stretches by 2 weeks. Totally not the norm though. And now at 13m she's still not consistently STTN so fate came back to me

@hilsy85: This is how it was with my DD too. She did one 5h in the early evening (7-12pm and then every 3h) starting at 4 or 5 months. That lasted until 8 months or so when she went down to one MOTN feed.

@pachamama: not bad! As long as you can hear him if he cries I think it's fine.

He does a 4 hour stretch now, but then the rest of the night is shit. Last night he slept from 9-1, then he wouldn't go back to sleep until after 3. Then he woke every hour until 8. I'm so freaking tired. He's 5.5 weeks

Also have an almost 4 week old. She's finally going 2.5-3 hours between feeds. But it has been brutal. I EP'd w my last so he would chug bottles and probably have more volume w each feeding. At one month w my DS, he would go 4 hrs...different situation though.
She will fall back asleep on the boob in the middle of the night after only a few minutes of eating...hard to keep her up for a full feed. And I'm so tired, I'm happy to put her down and go back to sleep myself. Short sighted decision making

@pachamama: Eh...they say that being in the same room does help with SIDs, but it wasn't realistic for us to keep either boy in our room until 6 months. We had no room for a crib, and they both outgrew the bassinet pretty quickly.

For some reason, I felt a little safer with moving them. We have a ceiling fan in the nursery, so we put the baby in the crib in a sleep sack (both were born in September, so it was getting cold), and put the ceiling fan on for air circulation. LO2 is about 4.5 months, and he's doing great in there. It also made it a ton easier for him to sleep at day care in a crib once I went back to work...so there's that!

Around 7 weeks he started consistently sleeping 8-4 and then 4ish-7. It was amazing. Now at 4 months, he sleeps anywhere from 2-6 hours at a time, usually up 3 times a night, boo!

@pachamama: At about 4 weeks he only woke up twice. Did that for another 4-5 weeks and then started sleeping 7-8 hours reliably! At 11 weeks he sleeps 8.5 hours. It could be because he is half FF though. Good luck!!

Around 6-7 weeks she started sleeping 5-6 hour stretches. I don't think we got more than that for a while.

Agree with pp that grunting and little squeaks don't mean you need to pick up and feed right away. I was told that babies are just noisy sleepers! Not sure if you're using a pacifier but when he was grunting and making noises I just replaced paci and patted his head over and over until it became undeniable he needed to be fed. But sometimes he would go back to sleep and not make noise for another hour. I really feel like that's how he eventually was able to stretch his time between feedings at night.

To answer your question, he always did 3 hour stretches at night. But I'd say around 4/5 weeks is when he would do 4-5 hour stretches. Gosh it's such a blur! Take comfort in knowing that it does pass and before you know it you can barely remember being that tired! It's such a blip on the radar, though while you're in it it feels like never ending!

My DD is 5 months old and just started sleeping 3-4 hour stretches.

My 10 week old was closer to 3hrs from the beginning, but really lengthened out overnight around 7 weeks. At that point, we consistently got one 5-6 hour stretch.

I found it really helped us to make sure and feed him right before I went to sleep-- if not, he'd do that longer stretch from 7pm- 1am and then be up again at 4am and 7am. If I feed him at 10pm, he won't be up until 3, and then again at 7, which was only one wake up for me.

Just yesterday he started actually STTN for us, going from 10pm-6am with a few fussies that the pacifier can solve at 330

That's great! It gets easier and easier to tell when they're really hungry and when they're just making noise. And your boobs will adjust. Just make sure you express a little if he gets crazy and decides to sleep for like 8 hrs

@pachamama: DS 8 weeks and is sleeping in one 6 to 7 hour stretch early in the night. Then he does a 2 to 3 hour stretch after that and then he's pretty fussy until we get up. Last night was different though. He went to sleep at 7:30, I dream fed him at 9:30 which he didn't wake up for then he fussed at 12:45 and I stuck a Binky in his mouth and he fell back asleep and woke up at 3 to eat. He seems to have a hard time settling after that wake up and he started crying again at 4. He was wide awake at 4 and fell back asleep at 4:30 only to wake at 5:30 again to eat. Sigh. He pretty much stayed on my boob until 7. He is having a growth spurt so maybe that's why.

@pachamama: my son was a rocky sleeper. He'd was up every 2-3 hours for much of his infancy. There were periods where he'd have consistently longer stretches & periods of consistenly shorter (like up every 90 min!). I used to obsess about how he "should" be sleeping & I was miserable. Finally I gave up & just figured out a plan to make ME get enough sleep; then I was a lot happier. Oh, and caffeine helped a lot too!

My daughter is 8 weeks and sleeps a 5 hr stretch, then 2-3 hour stretches. But I'm prepared for this to change, because sleep patterns always seem to change!

I have a 10 month old who still only sleeps in 90m to 3h stretches. So, definitely more than 2 months.

@pachamama: I looked through an old journal, it was actually 3 1/2 months when we started getting a 4 hour block, consistently, and it lasted for a little while.