sleeping through the night???

Hannah - posted on 04/22/2009

my son was born January 11 and has been sleeping through the night (knock on wood) for about 10 days now, going down at about 8pm and sleeping through without eating until about 6-7am. I am finding evidence that he wakes up in the middle of the night, but he is putting himself back to sleep. As i understand it, its more important that they learn to put themselves back to sleep than to sleep straight through without waking up. I mean, you wake up in the middle of the night, too, right? But you have the ability to roll over and go back to sleep. That is the skill they need to pick up, to not have to be rocked or bottled back to sleep. Looks like our kids are all right on track!

Kim - posted on 04/22/2009

Zoe was born on Jan. 31st. She has been sleeping through the night for at least a month now. She eats 8oz. around 8:30-9:30. When she is done I take her up stairs and lay her in her pack N play wide awake. I tell her to play if she wants but I'm going to bed. I can hear her cooing. Sometimes she wakes up and I just hear her playing (she doesn't cry) until she goes back to sleep. She can sleep through all noises so I don't have to worry about the dogs barking at my husband when he comes home from work. She then gets up when I do usually around 7am (5am if I have to go to work). But she doesn't want to eat again until around 8:30-9:00. If I feed her before then she only eats a couple of oz. each time. If I wait until she lets me know that she's hungry she eats between 7 and 8 oz. every feeding. She doesn't nap very much at all during the day, but she doesn't get cranky.

Jennifer - posted on 04/21/2009

Ellis just slept through the night for the first time last night! Slept form 8-6:30. I was awesome. I'm hoping he does it again tonight. Usually, he goes down between 7-8 and gets up around 1-2 for a feeding and then around 5 again. I'm breast feeding, the the dr. told me to give him a supplemental bottle with one ounce of expressed milk with a tablespoon of rice cereal in it. Worked the first night, maybe it will work again.

Susan - posted on 04/21/2009

My daughter born 1/30/09 has slept through the night only twice, every other night she wakes only once around 4am for a quick feeding since 3-4 weeks old. I have wondered what to expect also.

Aliya - posted on 04/21/2009

Quoting Carissa:

Quoting Ashleigh:

Quoting Carissa:

Max goes to sleep between 8 and 9 and will sleep until 12 or 1.  Then he seems to wake up every 1.5-2 hours after that.  Although to tell you the truth, I don't keep track of it that much.  We're co-sleeping, so I kind of just roll over, stick a boob in his mouth and we both drift back off.  We get up for the day at about 7, but he usually wants to go down for a nap at 9. 

My daughter is pretty much the exact same as your son!  She goes to sleep about 10 & wakes up at like 1 or 2 & then is pretty much consistent to wake up every 2 hours! There was like 2 weeks where she was sleeping 11 to 5 I have no idea why all of a sudden she stopped doing it?? But that's okay. It's no bad being she's cosleeping! & we also get up for the day about 7 but she's usually asleep again about 9 or 10!

YUP!  That's our exact schedule.  He goes down for the first nap at 9am.  :)  How old is your daughter?  Max is 11 weeks tomorrow.  

Terran (my son) is the same at 14 weeks old. I try and give him a bath around 6:30pm, massage, feed and try to put him down by 8:30pm. He's up at 11-ish which is when I feed him and go to bed myself. We co-sleep so I am not sure exact hours, but it feels like he is up every 1.5 - 2 hours (3 if I am lucky). I am a combo feeder but night feeds I can ususally get away w/ just the breast. Except the past week. Last 2 nights - I have to supplement w/ formula around 3am - and then he won't go back to sleep w/o a huge fit of crying and screaming if he starts to dose. He has just started to freak out at nap and feeding times. He rubs his eyes, maws on his fingers and yawns so I try to feed him - he freaks out. After 30 min of this - I can lullaby him to sleep and then dream feed him. Same w/ day naps (which seems to now be only 1 long 2.5 hour nap at about 1pm). Not sure if he is teething? I don't want to over feed, but as I have struggled with my milk supply from the beggining, I worry he is not eating enough. He has regular wet diapers and poops - but the last few days he seems to be eating a lot less and sleeping less.  I pray for the day of a 6 hour stretch of sleep!

Stara - posted on 04/21/2009

My daughter was born on the 22 and at 8 weeks old started sleeping through the night. At first i would put her to bed at 11 and she would get up at 6:30. Now I put her to bed around 9 and she gets up at 7. I never gave her a say otherwise.

Laine - posted on 04/21/2009

My son has been wonderful. He sleep through the night most nights. We give him his last bottle at 8pm... He is sleeping in bed around 8:45pm and then he goes until Mommy wakes him up at 6am to go to the daycare provider. On weekends, he'll sleep in until 7:30ish. He is a VERY good boy! I feel so blessed!

Michele - posted on 04/20/2009

I really think there is not a hard-and-fast rule for sleeping. Every baby is different. Griffin goes to sleep between 7-8 and usually sleeps 'till 12 or 1 when he gets up to eat briefly. He'll usually do that once or twice more and lately he's been getting up at 6:30 for diaper change, eat and play a little. However, I've had a hard time lately getting him to nap during the day...hopefully its just a phase.

Dawn - posted on 04/20/2009

My daughter has been sleeping about 13-14 hours a night for the past month...I am loving it but I wish her 2 year old sister would sleep through the night!!!!

Melissa - posted on 04/20/2009

I'm still having to get up at least twice a night with my son.

I usually get a good 3-5 hour chunk at first... after that it's anywhere from 1-2 hours.

Gemma - posted on 04/20/2009

My daughter is really good with night sleeps - she goes right through and some mornings I have to wake her!! She has been sleeping through from only 2 weeks old! She does feed every 2-3 hours in the day time to make up for no night feeds though! In her own room from 2 months old - she cries when I first put her down in her cot but I put her mobile on and leave the room for a few minutes and when I go back to check on her she is always asleep - I have never taken her back out of her cot once she is in there for the night!

Sarah - posted on 04/20/2009

Chrissy - I was waking my little girl for her 10/11pm feed and then on the night I didn't she slept right through and has done ever since - my brother had said to me "what are you THINKING waking a sleeping baby at night" so I kinda thought to myself, yeah, what am I thinking?!?!?! trial it out and see if it works! good luck! I also think formula fed babies sometimes sleep better as you know exactly how much they've had to drink before bed - when I was breastfeeding, I'd express and bottle feed before bed so I knew exactly what Eva had drunk and I was confident she'd had enough.

Sarah - posted on 04/20/2009

my little pumpkin started sleeping through about 3 weeks ago (she was born on the 1st Jan) and has consistently done it since. (am keeping my fingers crossed it continues!!) - we put her down at 7pm and she sleeps until 5/6am the next morning. brilliant! she is excellent at self settling too - I persevered for around a week before she started sleeping though with not going into sooth her at her every whimper. If she was crying and really upset I'd go in, but 9 times out of 10 she was just having a whinge and not really upset and after 10 mins she'd have fallen asleep! Eva has 200 mls of formula at each feed during the day (every 4 hrs) except the first thing in the morning feed when she'll take an extra 40mls.

Sarah - posted on 04/20/2009

Hi Maddox slept through the night for about 4 nights but ever since he has been waking every 2 hours at the most which is actually worse than when he was a newborn.

Sarah - posted on 04/20/2009

Hi Maddox slept throught the night for about four nights but ever since he is waking every two hours at the most which is actually worse than when he was a new born

Natalie - posted on 04/20/2009

My son goes to sleep about 8:30 then wakes up around 12:00 drinks and then wakes up again at 03:00 drinks and then up again at 08:00. No sleeping through for me. He is exclusively breastfed.

Andrea - posted on 04/19/2009

my son sleeps from 10 - 8 usually sometimes he wakes up at 10! yesterday he slept for 14 hours! he started doing this 7 weeks

Katt - posted on 04/19/2009

Hailee was born Jan 26 and has slept threw the night since the day we brought her home! she'll go to bed around 10-10:30 and sleep till 7 or 8 then wakes up to have some food then goes back to sleep untill noon sometimes! There has only been one night she was up on and off and that was because she had surgery on her fingers so she was a bit it cranky!

Kimberly - posted on 04/17/2009

Becca was born on Jan 8th and she sleeps for about a 6 hr. stretch usually. When she wakes up I just put her in bed with us and nurse her and we go back to sleep.

Anastasia - posted on 04/17/2009

Riley was born Jan 31st and just had her first full week of sleeping through the night. She sleeps between 6 and 8 hours a night. Though she does wake up and want her binkey at times but falls right back to sleep.

Maricel - posted on 04/17/2009

My boy started sleeping through the night since 2 months old. He goes to bed around 11 or 12 and doesn't wake up until 8 am and I can also get him to bed at 10 and wake him up at 6 am on the days I have to work. He's doing so great that he has been sleeping in his own room for the past week and it's been great. He was getting too big for the bassinet

Kelly - posted on 04/17/2009

only a tiny baby spoon size

Elke - posted on 04/16/2009

My son who is born in January falls asleep at about 8.30 pm. My husband wakes him up at about midnight to feed him again and then Josh (my son) gets immediately back to bed and sleeps til 6.30 / 7.00.

Now I am wondering if we should try not to wake him up. Maybe he would sleep through. What do you think?

Elke - posted on 04/16/2009

My son who is born in January falls asleep at about 8.30 pm. My husband wakes him up at about midnight to feed him again and then Josh (my son) gets immediately back to bed and sleeps til 6.30 / 7.00.

Now I am wondering if we should try not to wake him up. Maybe he would sleep through. What do you think?

Kimberley - posted on 04/16/2009

My Daughter LillyMae For The Past 2 Nights Has Slept From 10pm Til 7am So Im Hoping This Lasts :)

Before She Was Waking 3 Times a Night =]

Good Luck.. x

Chrissy - posted on 04/16/2009

I try to get my daughter to go to sleep around 10-1030 (somethimes she wants to fall asleep earlier)  then she'll usually get up between 5 and 7.  Last night she went to bed around 845 and woke up around 8.  Yeah for mom and dad!!!

Mirela - posted on 04/15/2009

try too feed her each day less and dnt let her hands free cos she wake up cos of her hands.

Mirela - posted on 04/15/2009

my son is sleeping 10 houres at nite ime since he was 3 weeks

Beau - posted on 04/15/2009

Mac has her last feed at 8pm, in bed by 9-15pm.  She sleeps through until 7am.  We make sure we give her a bath after her last feed and have a big play with her and by 9-15 he is asleep in daddy's arms. Put her in her cot and she will sleep through until 7am.  She has been doing this for about 5 weeks now. 

Nap time - Mac gets fed every 4.5 hours, stays up for about 2 hours, no more and then i put her in ther cot in her room even if she is awake, I wrap her in her swaddle and she has associated her swaddle and cot = sleep time.  She will put herself to sleep within 30 minutes, in that time she may talk to herself and have a little grizzle, but i don't attend to her unless she has been crying for 10 minutes, which i only had to do a couple of times.

Good Luck.

Holly - posted on 04/14/2009

My little girl has her last feeding (breastfeeding)around 9 pm and she sleeps until 3 or 4 then a quick feed and she is back to sleep until 7ish. I can't wait until she doesn't need that feeding. She usually will go back to sleep until 9ish but has been having trouble since I went back to work last week. She is home with dad and will not nap for him. She will fall asleep in his arms or on his lap but as soon as he puts her down she screams. Hopefully she will get into a better routine for him soon!!

Caroline - posted on 04/14/2009

I have been well and truly blessed with a little angel who has most definately inherited mommy and daddys sleep genes!! My daughter has her last bottle approx 11.30pm - midnight and will happily sleep right through then till approx 10.30am - 11am, she has been doing this now for the past 3 weeks since we put her onto 6oz bottles and it's great....thought it would never happen!!!!!!!

Hang on in there it will be your turn soon x

Carissa - posted on 04/14/2009

Quoting Ashleigh:

Quoting Carissa:

Max goes to sleep between 8 and 9 and will sleep until 12 or 1.  Then he seems to wake up every 1.5-2 hours after that.  Although to tell you the truth, I don't keep track of it that much.  We're co-sleeping, so I kind of just roll over, stick a boob in his mouth and we both drift back off.  We get up for the day at about 7, but he usually wants to go down for a nap at 9. 

My daughter is pretty much the exact same as your son!  She goes to sleep about 10 & wakes up at like 1 or 2 & then is pretty much consistent to wake up every 2 hours! There was like 2 weeks where she was sleeping 11 to 5 I have no idea why all of a sudden she stopped doing it?? But that's okay. It's no bad being she's cosleeping! & we also get up for the day about 7 but she's usually asleep again about 9 or 10!

YUP!  That's our exact schedule.  He goes down for the first nap at 9am.  :)  How old is your daughter?  Max is 11 weeks tomorrow.  

Carissa - posted on 04/14/2009

Quoting Ashleigh:

Quoting Carissa:

Max goes to sleep between 8 and 9 and will sleep until 12 or 1.  Then he seems to wake up every 1.5-2 hours after that.  Although to tell you the truth, I don't keep track of it that much.  We're co-sleeping, so I kind of just roll over, stick a boob in his mouth and we both drift back off.  We get up for the day at about 7, but he usually wants to go down for a nap at 9. 

My daughter is pretty much the exact same as your son!  She goes to sleep about 10 & wakes up at like 1 or 2 & then is pretty much consistent to wake up every 2 hours! There was like 2 weeks where she was sleeping 11 to 5 I have no idea why all of a sudden she stopped doing it?? But that's okay. It's no bad being she's cosleeping! & we also get up for the day about 7 but she's usually asleep again about 9 or 10!

YUP!  That's our exact schedule.  He goes down for the first nap at 9am.  :)  How old is your daughter?  Max is 11 weeks tomorrow.  

Jennifer - posted on 04/14/2009

My son pretty much sleeps through the night. He gets a bath around 7:30, then I put the J&J nighttime lotion on him, then I feed him until he goes to sleep (I breastfeed). I put him in his crib (usually around 9ish). He usually wakes once around 4am to eat for about 10-15mins then he sleeps until about 8am. 

I swaddle him (except his arms) and I put him to sleep on his tummy. I found it was the only way to get him to sleep longer. A routine also helped a lot. If I don't give him a bath before bed, he wakes up more during the night.

Naps are a completely different story (just started another conversation about naps :) )  

Christina - posted on 04/14/2009

My son gets bottle fed during the day while I'm at work and I breastfeed when I'm home. For the last 3 weeks, I have given my son a bath, massaged him w/ lotion, put his pajamas on, given him a 4 oz bottle w/ 1 1/2 teaspoons of rice cereal, then breast fed him after he finished the bottle. He goes to sleep at 8:30 a.m. and sleeps until about 7:30 a.m.

Kelly - posted on 04/14/2009

My daughter is not sleeping through the night. She usually wakes up around 3-3:30 to eat and then only sleeps until about 6:30a.m. The longest she slept at night was a 5 hour stretch.

Carissa - posted on 04/14/2009

at night my son gets a bath, eats a bottle i read to him, put him down in the crib to fall asleep on his own this is about 830 and he wakes between 630 and 8 am... i think it has to do with the size he is over 16 lbs and how much they are getting to eat during the day he has 5 feedings of 5-6 oz.... i think it deff has to do with the  routine to he is comfortable by himself so i don't have to go to him in the middle of the night and he doesn't have a binkie he would rather suck on his fingers so i never have the put that back in his mouth or anything

Kristen - posted on 04/13/2009

My daughter just started sleeping through the night this week. I am hoping it will last! (Jan 10th)

Liana - posted on 04/13/2009

My little boy, Tyler, sleeps through the night and has done since he was 7 weeks old.  He goes to bed at 7pm and wakes up from around 6am.  He's breastfed, but have started supplementing his evening feed with formula for the last couple of weeks. 

Carisa - posted on 04/13/2009

my Ava will be 3 months on wednesday the 15th. and she sleeps thru the night. she will go to sleep aruond 9 or 10 and she sleeps till 7or 8.

its wonderful!!

Laura - posted on 04/13/2009

my little girl has slept through the night for tha last two weeks for a solid 7 hours so im pretty lucky i think she normal goes to sleep at midnight then wakes up for a feed at between 7am-8am

Joy - posted on 04/12/2009

I keep mine swaddled still, and with a white noise machine going next to her... the louder the white noise, the longer she sleeps.  7-8 hour stretches are normal, but she started out her life as a good sleeper!

Sarah - posted on 04/12/2009

Hi! I tried swaddling my little guy again (We used to when he first got home from the hospital) That has done wonders for naps during the day. I find he is too overstimulated to nap when his arms are flailing around and he is kicking a lot!

Cheree - posted on 04/12/2009

My son Mason has his last feed and sleeps at about 10pm and wakes at about 5am for a quick feed and then sleeps till about 7ish which is way better then my first he woke every 2 hrs through the night for months!!

Jennifer - posted on 04/11/2009

I have tried both. Every once in a while I get a 30 minute nap out of him, but it doesn't seem to matter if it's tummy or back.

Amber - posted on 04/11/2009

Is he already sleeping when you put him down or do you put him down awake.  My baby has to be sleeping for a good 15 minutes before I can put him down and then I do the tummy and he stays asleep sometimes not always though

Jennifer - posted on 04/11/2009

Thanks for the suggestion. Tummy doesn't work either :( I have tried a few times. He really doesn't want to go down.

Amber - posted on 04/11/2009

A tip for napping during the day.  My son stopped sleeping during the day he would fall asleep and every time I put him down he would wake up within minutes he wouldn't even sleep in the swing at all.  He was not getting enough sleep and was getting very fussy.  I started laying him on his tummy when he fell asleep and he stays asleep that way.  I know they say that babies shouldn't sleep on their tummy, but it is the only way my baby will sleep.  Plus when we were babies that is how they told mom's to put their babies to bed and I know many other people who do that as well and that is the only way their baby will sleep too.  I know they say not to do that which makes me a little paranoid about it so I just put him like that next to me on the couch or I put the monitor real close to him and turn it up all the way so I can hear him breath.  I have been doing this for over a month and it is the only thing that has worked. 

Jennifer - posted on 04/11/2009

Any suggestions for naps during the day? Mine fights them unless he's being held, in the swing, baby bjorn, etc... He does not like being put down while it's light outside.

Lisa - posted on 04/11/2009

My little girl is usually put in her bassinette around 8 then wakes for a quick feed around midnight and usually another around 4:30. I keep her in bed with me after the morning feed. Sometimes she falls straight back to sleep as soon as i lift her just wanting a cuddle i suppose. My other children didnt sleep through until around 7 mnths but i it depends what people class as sleeping through! i think 6 hrs sleep in a row would be nice!