What do you consider STTN?

Useonfire

DS is 3.5 months old and has never gone for a longer stretch than 7-7.5hrs (and this was only twice). A really long stretch for him is about 6 hours, but it's usually closer to 5.  Typically he goes down around 9, he's up at 2:30, back down by 3, and then up again at 7. He takes his biggest bottle at the middle of the night feeding (he gets upwards of 35oz a day sometimes). He's a big boy - almost 16lbs already. Will he ever drop this middle of the night feeding!?

MrsSandro

I consider STTN through the night a long stretch. For instance DD has slept from 9:00 to 5:30. That to me is through the night. She wakes up on occasion to eat at 4:00 then she sleeps for a couple more hours. I think 4:00 would still classify as STTN.

GoombaGirl_79

That sounds exactly like our son. In bed by 8-9, up at 2-3am, then up again at 7am. Our DS is pretty big too, he was 16.4 lbs at 4 months..and I heard boys tend to be more "wakeful" in general then girls too for some reason?

lilmissmuffin12

ive read that sttn means 5 hours.  youre lucky your lo does 7-7.5 hrs sometimes!!! lots of moms, like myself, arent so lucky.  but all babies are different and yes yours will eventually not need to wake up in the middle of then night

MrsBatty

When I don't feel exhausted in the morning.  lol.    No, but in all seriousness I consider it sttn when she sleeps from like 7 or 8 pm till 5 or 6 am.

Useonfire

GoombaGirl_79:

That sounds exactly like our son. In bed by 8-9, up at 2-3am, then up again at 7am. Our DS is pretty big too, he was 16.4 lbs at 4 months..and I heard boys tend to be more "wakeful" in general then girls too for some reason?

Does your DS eat solids now? Does that help? I keep wondering whether our pedi will recommend solids at 4 months because he still seems hungry all the time (he typically eats every 2-3hrs during the day). 

BeanieWeanie

IMO, sleeping through the night involves me not having to get up till 5:30 at the earliest. DS does this very very occasionally. Mostly he's still up once or twice. He's also big - think he was just a little bigger than your DS at 3 months - though I'm not sure whether that makes any difference or not.

BeanieWeanie

Useonfire:

GoombaGirl_79:

That sounds exactly like our son. In bed by 8-9, up at 2-3am, then up again at 7am. Our DS is pretty big too, he was 16.4 lbs at 4 months..and I heard boys tend to be more "wakeful" in general then girls too for some reason?

Does your DS eat solids now? Does that help? I keep wondering whether our pedi will recommend solids at 4 months because he still seems hungry all the time (he typically eats every 2-3hrs during the day). 

BTW my DS also ate really often (usually every 2 hours) until almost 5 months. Now he goes up to 4 hours, and we haven't started solids yet. He's obviously gaining well so there's probably no reason for you to start solids at 4 months.

juliane2004

The technical definition is 5 hrs straight. But I do enjoy when she goes 7+ hrs, because goint from 10pm-3am is not reeeeeally TTN for me. :P

Pennylane824

If I have to get up in the middle of the night then it's not STTN. DD goes 11-12 hours. We're VERY lucky.

tez2101

This is exactly what my DS does as well. I actually don't mind it too much because the few times that the he skipped this feeding, he was up at 5:30 for the day. I would rather get up for less than 30 minutes and get to stay in bed until 7 am!

smilelari

Anything > 6 hours straight.  So, LO usually goes to bed at 7:30 and wakes for the first time at 2:30 or so.  That's 7 hours, so he's STTN even though it doesn't really feel like it to me.

angelnscrubs7

The boys go down anywhere between 10pm-12a for the night (I work evening shifts, so I usually feed them when I get home, unless they've just recently been fed), and then sleep until anywhere between 9-10:30am.

OCMom2be

Our DD sleeps anywhere from 930-10pm to 3-330am, feed, back to sleep about 4am, sleep til 7. This is a new thing she's been doing since the moment she turned 4 months. Less sleep during the day and night too. The last week or so she has been going to bed between 930-1030pm til about 630am...BUT, we're still getting up every 1.5 hours to console her back to sleep..she has yet to figure out how to self soothe..these are w/o feeding her. I consider it STTN, but I am still waiting for that magical night where DD nor us have to get up at all for anything...when's that again??!! LOL!!

IEtoLA

At least 6 hours.  LO is in bed between 630 and 7pm and usually gets up around 1230-1am.  She has gone as much as 7.5 hours maybe 3 times...I wish for that sometime soon again.

madameladauphine

I consider 5-6 hours STTN as that is the technical definition.