Just curious, but what do you all consider sleeping through the night for your little ones? I know typically it means sleeping 8+ hours without feeding.
Personally, I often say my baby is sleeping through the night despite her waking to feed. She sleeps from 6:30pm-6:30am with about 3-5 feeds but she never wants to play during this time. I go in and dream feed 2x in evening before I go to bed (8:30 & 10:30) since she feeds every 2hrs during day. She then wakes herself 1-3 times during the remainder of the night. I change, feed and burp her and have her back in her bed within 20 min of waking.
Since she doesn't expect to be entertained during the night I personally consider this STTN. Of course I look forward to her sleeping longer without feeds but I am so thankful she doesn't need to be entertained and walked and rocked etc during the night that I do use the term STTN.
I have found that even my husband gets confused...I say STTN but then get up to feed her so he's like but you said she slept through the night until 6:30am. I keep telling him how lucky we are she just eats then sleeps that I consider it STTN for a 10 week old (she's been on this routine for a good 5 weeks).
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And for me to say it, those 6-8 hours really need to be while I'm sleeping! LO usually sleeps from around 9pm-4am right now with no wakeups, but that 4am wakeup is still a MOTN feeding in my opinion. So I don't count it as STTN yet.
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Sounds like you have LO on a great routine and you're all getting good rest!
I agree. DS only wakes one time during the night and goes back down right away but that is not STTN.
This! If you feel rested, and happy and YOU consider LO to be STTN then so be it! I think this term varies so much that it's confusing when ANYONE uses it. Technically, STTN is 12-5 without a wake up; my LO was sleeping 7-4 for a a couple weeks, which to ME was STTN but not in the technical sense. Other people will say STTN is when they are sleeping the baby sleeps..or a 8 hour stretch..or a 10 hour stretch...or a 5 hour stretch!
Personally, the first time she slept a 6 hour stretch before feeding I considered that STTN. my husband, though, disagreed
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I was curious because so many moms on here use the term and I am wondering what they are referring to when they use it.
They mean just that: sleeping THROUGH the night. Not waking up every 2-4 hours to eat. If I'm getting out of bed to feed a LO, they aren't sleeping through the night.
My LO "slept through the night" last night. At least, after her getting up every 2 hours for the past 6 weeks, we consider this STTN! She slept from 10:00 p.m. until 4 a.m. We both woke up startled thinking "OMG she must be dead!" She wasn't, but boy was she hungry! And I don't think DH and I have EVER been that cheery at 4 a.m... ever!
Before last night, she was up around 12-1 a.m. and then again around 3 a.m... I had a few "lucky" nights where we fed her late (10:30 p.m.) and she only got up once around 2 a.m., but I still didn't count that as STTN.
IMO, STTN = 6 hours, no waking up.
This is what I consider STTN too. DS sleeps from 10-7 with one wakeup. That one wakeup is right in the middle, so I still don't think he's STTN.
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