How is everyone doing with sleeping? How old is your LO and how long do they sleep at night and where?
DD is just over 2 weeks. She will sleep for the longest stretches in bed with me but I don't really feel comfy with the co sleeping thing. Last week she slept for 3.5 hours 3 nights in a row in her bassinet but that was short lived. The last few nights she stirs in her bassinet after 30 minutes at the most.
Just curious how it is going with some other mamas.
Re: Those with outside LO's..sleep question
She goes for 2-3 hours at a time mostly and stays in the bassinet or we walk out to the living room with her and hold her on the couch. She is not allowed in our bed at all. We've had two nights where she wanted nothing to do with being put down so we'd feed/hold her til 100% asleep (you know all wiggly and loose) and put her back to sleep in the bassinet. That seems to help though it can take a bit of walking/rocking/feeding to get her all loosey but it seems to work.
My son is 2 weeks and one day. He slept swaddled in his bassinet for four hours last night. It had been 5 hours since he had started eating, so he was one hungry baby! (I've heard that you should wake them up to feed them, but I've never been able to. Plus I read somewhere that waking them up to feed them isn't necessary as long as they're getting enough to eat. So I've decided to stop worrying about it, and to let the boy sleep if he wants to sleep.)
I've co-slept with him before, but I only did so because he was waking up every hour, but he's started sleeping longer so I have no problem putting him in his bassinet. He doesn't seem to care as long as he's swaddled. Sometimes I have to wait until he's out before he'll be happy, but that's rare. Often times he'll lie awake in his bassinet and drift off by himself.
I chose to bottle feed my second and I would swaddle him, feed him a bottle, and put him in his crib awake. He would fall asleep on his own and sleep for almost four hours. My husband and I took turns feeding him at night so I barely missed out on any sleep.
This baby is still an inside baby and I'm going to nurse again, but can you guess which sibling I hope he takes after?!? Haha
ETA: I noticed both my kids were noisy sleepers. So at night even when they stirred around in bed, I left them alone until they actually started fussing and crying. Sometimes I would get a whole extra hour or two of sleep before they really woke ready to eat!
DD is almost 2 weeks. Every night is a different story, but we usually get at least one 4 hour stretch. Sometimes, there is a 3 hour and a 4 hour, sometimes there is just the ONE 4 hour stretch after some cluster feedings.
Since she's been sleeping all day and I didn't take advantage with a nap, I'm sure we won't get a lot of sleep tonight.
Today she's been cluster feeding, do we'll see how tonight goes. I'm wondering if, since she was nearly a week late, she's hitting that twoweek growth spurt I've read about a little early...
So far I'm thinking that we've got a little bit of a routine going now. She is up to eat at 8, 12/1, 4/5. A few times she actually went on a six hour stretch and it was amazing!! But I've been able to handle the nighttime feedings so far. I try to nap in the morning when she's sleeping to help me catch up on sleep.
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Due to her preemie problems, Delilah shares our bed for the moment. When we feel she has gained enough weight and can keep herself warm then we will move her to her crib beside our bed.
For the moment she sleeps for 3-4hrs at a time during the night. We do wake her to feed - I BF- if she hasnt woken by herself. The whole cycle of feeding, burping, changing, more feeding, more burping and back down to sleep takes about an hr and a half to 2 hrs.
So yes - it?s gruelling, but so worth it. I?m not finding it a stress at all.
Gosh, I love this board!! I love reading this and realizing how un-alone I am in all of these situations. My little girl is 5 days old. I pretty much feed her every 2-3 hours...she is very good about waking up, eating, burping, getting changed and going right back to sleep.
Currently I can't get her to sleep in pack-n-play bassinet so we've been putting her on the couch and surrounding her with pillows (we pushed our long lounger against the couch so there's no way she's rolling off on the ground, plus I sleep on the lounger just in case). I'm currently so paranoid of her sleeping at night that I get pretty much zero sleep...and since I'm solely responsible for her feedings DH is hardly up...last night he was good with burping and changing her after our feedings but I still can't get any sleep. Today he let me take 3 hour to 2 hour naps but I still find myself dreading nighttime.