How long does your LO sleep?

traveltheworld · July 2012

We have a two week old and no matter what we do, he won't sleep for more than 2.5 hours at a time, and usually he needs to be rocked/held for the first 30 minutes in order to stay asleep, so that leaves us about 2 hours where he would actually sleep by himself. We swaddle - light swaddle during the day, tight swaddle at night, and I also give him a bath and nurse before "bed time" to try and help him sleep longer, but nothing seems to work. I know it's still pretty early, but he has been like this since day 1, and I would have thought that he'd sleep longer by now.

in my life · July 2012

Sounds like a typical newborn. Generally they start sleeping longer stretches after 6 weeks.

mariamora15 · July 2012

try putting baby lullabies for him. works for my daughter shes almost 7 weeks old but we've played music for her since she was born and now she doesnt fall asleep unless we play the music for her.

acbfreire · July 2012

in my life:
Sounds like a typical newborn. Generally they start sleeping longer stretches after 6 weeks.

generally, my LO is 7 wks and we only had about 3 nights where she slept longer than 3h...

lovemygs · July 2012

My boys will be 6 weeks tomorrow and sleep between 2-4 hours.

avalliere1128 · July 2012

My LO is 7 weeks and only sleeps 3hrs at a time.

sam19 · July 2012

2.5 hours sounds normal. My LO is 7 weeks and sleeps in 3hour stretches. 4 hours if we're lucky. Sometimes only 2 if we're unlucky.

plutoisaplanet · July 2012

My LO sleeps anywhere from 40min to 3 hours...but that's rare. On average, I'd say 2 hour stretches are the norm.

LER091811 · July 2012

8 weeks, she's slept through the night since 4 weeks. Now she sleeps from about 10-7

stemms8810 · July 2012

That is exactly what my 2 week old did. And remember, BM digests quickly so breastfed babies will want to eat more frequently especially when they are newborn.

My LO is breastfed and slept his first longer stretch at around 4 weeks but it wasn't consistent. Starting at 6 or 7 weeks he started giving me a 4-6 hour initial stretch. Now at almost 12 weeks he has been consistently going down for bed about 7:30-8pm, wakes at 1 or 2am for a feeding, then again at 4am, then he's up for the day at 6am.