STTN

sopranoali

What's your strategy to get LO to STTN? STMs+ any tips/insights?

SurpriseAt39

@SuheyF1983‌
Sleep Through The Night

@sopranoali‌
I have no strategy other than 'don't wake them'.
If they sleep, they sleep.
I figure if they are waking at this age, they need something.
If at 6-8 months, I would definitely encourage less wake ups. And at a year I'd start fighting for an all-nighter.

My DD started STTN at 6 weeks.
DS1 didn't STTN until 10 months.
DS2 switches his sleep pattern so frequently I have no idea when he will be up next.

Good luck.

matitice

@SuheyF1983‌ I think it means sleep through the night

akflutterby

Cooper will mostly go 7hrs now (one month today). We nurse, clean her butt, put on her pj's, then nurse some more. Not sure if it helps, but they sleep when they sleep, and it worked with my older two.

Andreabills

I hate to say this, but I'm a FTM and I think sleep training by and large is a crap shoot. You either have a good sleeper who's trainable or you have a craopy sleeper that nothing works for. This is evidenced by the comments left; look at the variation of sleep patterns between all of the babies!

Edit-autocorrect fix.
Edited again because there's another freakin typo!

memo9

You get lucky.

BethRN1987

Create the best environment and hope for the best! Only thing in doing other then bedtime routine is same wake up time every day

CruiseGirl28

I wake Isla at 10 to give her a bottle and she sleeps until 6.

benevolentforce

I agree with PPs it's mostly a crap shoot. However, I've heard it's not even really on the table for most babies until they are over 10lbs. We're at 8lbs now, and she'll sometimes go 5 hours. Most of the time we have a 10pm, 2am and 6am feed still though.

nkrone08

DD was doing two MOTN feeds (at one and five) and I realized that at her second feed she wasn't eating much. She hates sitting in a dirty diaper so I wondered if she was waking only for a diaper change. I swapped in the pampers baby dry and that seemed to have done the trick and she's only doing one MOTN feed. Also, I agree with PPs in that I didn't train her into this, I only listened to her cues and got lucky that the second wake up could be avoided. When DD gets ready to STTN she will let me know. Until then, I'm happy getting up once a night and owe some extra zzzzz's to baby dry!

SmittyPants

I really think it depends on the baby. You can do your best to encourage them becoming good sleepers, but some kids are just wired for it and some are not.

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fish8412

We have to soothe LO to sleep at night. We rock her siting on our legs in front of us, no eye contact, lights off or dimmed, no noises. Sometimes she wants a pacifier. Once she is asleep we don't wake her. She usually sleeps 5 or 6 hours, eats, then sleeps another 2 or 3 before eating again.

BabiesFTW

Umm DD slept through the night from 3-6 months and then didn't until 21 months..
But i would recommend bedtime routine, keeping dark and quiet at night and bright during the day and not waking to feed.

SamJustice

DS1 is 2.5 and just now STTN. DS2 is 3 mo and wakes once a night ad long as he's swaddled. It mostly depends on the kid, I guess.

avigailandcharlie

I don't think anybody has mentioned the importance of keeping a routine during the day as well. I try not to let LO go more than 3 hours between feeds and when he was younger (he's 9.5 weeks), it was 2.5 hours. Even if he's sleeping soundly I'll wake him to eat and then encourage play time for an hour plus before sleeping again. Then keep the cycle going. This way they are awake more during the day and more tired at night, but they've also eaten more during the day that they need less at night

flcl

DisneyAddict1 said:

avigailandcharlie said:

I don't think anybody has mentioned the importance of keeping a routine during the day as well. I try not to let LO go more than 3 hours between feeds and when he was younger (he's 9.5 weeks), it was 2.5 hours. Even if he's sleeping soundly I'll wake him to eat and then encourage play time for an hour plus before sleeping again. Then keep the cycle going. This way they are awake more during the day and more tired at night, but they've also eaten more during the day that they need less at night

I disagree with this. If  either of my boys doesn't get enough sleep and is awake for too long or misses a good nap they're overtired and cranky by the time the evening rolls around.

My guy is like this too.  I try to get him to nap every 1-2 hours.  I've found the first nap in the morning is most important and if he misses that, napping the rest of the day is tough.  If he doesn't sleep well during the day, I can anticipate a rough night of sleep as well.

erinsullivan427

avigailandcharlie said:

I don't think anybody has mentioned the importance of keeping a routine during the day as well. I try not to let LO go more than 3 hours between feeds and when he was younger (he's 9.5 weeks), it was 2.5 hours. Even if he's sleeping soundly I'll wake him to eat and then encourage play time for an hour plus before sleeping again. Then keep the cycle going. This way they are awake more during the day and more tired at night, but they've also eaten more during the day that they need less at night

I just started this routine this week at his 8 wk mark. I'm feeding every 3 hours and he's napping 1 1/2 hours every 1 1/2 hours (to the minute or he's overtired and won't go down). I'm seeing such a difference! He was all over the place with naps and eating and now he's predictable. He's nowhere near sstn but every night he's going longer and we've only been doing it for four days. I keep him up during the last part- 7-10ish with feed/play/bath/feed before putting him down.

In regards to sleep begets sleep, he is getting more sleep now because I'm putting him down at the right time. He takes naps for 6 hours total during the day. Before it was so sporadic that he might take two long ones with cat naps sprinkled in. Now he's getting quality naps each time. It is working for us and I feel like a sane person again!

VineyardMel

DD didn't STTN until 12mo. DS sleeps 7-9 hour stretches regularly and has been for several weeks. I haven't done anything different between them. While I think you can do things that make it harder for them, at the end of the day babies either sleep or they don't. And I know lots of babies that slept great until the first sleep regression at 4mo and then didn't STTN again for months and months, so even if they're sleeping now you just never know what's going to happen. I'm taking it one day at a time (and have a knot in my stomach about actually posting this for fear of jinxing the good sleep we're getting now).

klitwin1

VineyardMel said:

DD didn't STTN until 12mo. DS sleeps 7-9 hour stretches regularly and has been for several weeks. I haven't done anything different between them. While I think you can do things that make it harder for them, at the end of the day babies either sleep or they don't. And I know lots of babies that slept great until the first sleep regression at 4mo and then didn't STTN again for months and months, so even if they're sleeping now you just never know what's going to happen. I'm taking it one day at a time (and have a knot in my stomach about actually posting this for fear of jinxing the good sleep we're getting now).

i hope you dont mind me asking, but what is sleep regression? My first 2 didn't sttn until 15 months. DD2 is sleeping 7.5 stretches since 5 weeks. I thought I finally got lucky.