How does your baby sleep at night?

smitt2619

Does your LO sleep for long stretches or wake frequently? Makes noises? Still need to eat? Need a pacifier or white noise? My LO still wakes a few times a night, usually at least twice to eat. It seems he should be old enough not to need to eat during the night, but how do you tell the difference between hunger and comfort nursing? He doesn't really make any noises while he's sleeping, but goes down with a pacifier, a small fan for air circulation and white noise. And he always sleeps in his Halo Sleepsack - it has become a great way to signal that it's sleep time, plus it keeps him warm. So how does your LO sleep at night? Please share your stories.

AshSchultz

My LO sleeps through the night 12 hours and has since 7 weeks...8 p.m.- 8 am (ish) He doesn't take a paci... he sleeps with white noise-- on his belly-- with a light crotcheted blanket... He moves alot (scoots all around)-- doesn't really make mouth noises...

Mrs.Syntax

DD has had a serious regression in the past couple weeks! She used to sleep from 8 p.m. - 5 or 6 a.m., nurse, and then go back down for an hour or two.  

Now she's waking up 3-4 times per night. She usually nurses twice, and the other times I just have to roll her back on her tummy and pat her back a little bit. She still uses a paci but it's not absolutely necessary for her to fall asleep. The past two nights she has been awake in her crib for about an hour during the night, but not upset - she's just babbling and rolling around. It's driving me bonkers because I am soooo exhausted - it's like having a newborn all over again! 

We also use a Halo Sleep Sack.  Love those! 

sarahwoodworth

Not well! It's mostly our fault because we've been bad about sticking to a routine. He nurses to sleep, sleeps in our bed and wakes about every 1.5-2 hours to comfort nurse. He hates sleeping in his crib so most nights I don't even try. Terrible, I know... It just seems like there's always something preventing us from really getting him out of our bed, whether it's teething, a cold, growth spurt, etc. I plan on buckling down and working on our nighttime routine over the weekend because I really do feel bad that it's my fault he has "unhealthy" sleep habits.

808to619mama

LO has been sick on and off. First diarrhea now a sinus infection AND croup! So of course he will not sleep out of my arms... lately he has been bedsharing and I have been a non stop feeding machine for him! so right now, he is sleeping pretty crappy.

Before though we had started crib training and he would sleep in his crib for 5 - 6 hours and wake up for his night feeding around 2 so once he is up we bedshare till we get up at 5.

It doesnt help that he naps on his own Queen bed at my MIL's house. no wonder he loves sleeping in our bed!

Jennicap

Only in the last month has DS started not waking up a lot. Prior to say 4 weeks ago he would wake every 2-4 hours either to eat or just to say Hi. I started elimination with him. I used to nurse every time he woke, then I started just giving him the pacifer instead then I started trying to rub his back in the crib rather than pick him up and rock him. He now sleeps 8pm to 3/4am eats then sleeps until 7/7:30. He wakes up and cries out once or twice (I think he's only half awake and then settles) He barely moves when he sleeps though, might shift when he's unsettled but thats it. Lately he's been waking up and talking in the morning, nice to give me a 5 min wake up period rather than screaming for me from the start so I jump out of bed!

kaa36

My DD sleeps 13 hours straight (6pm to 7-7:30pm). She will sometimes wake up around 6 for a diaper change. She sleeps with the baby crack machine on and in a sleep sack. I've been putting her to sleep on her belly since she learned to roll over.

 

kiki_1218

DD goes down between 6:30 - 7:00 with a sleep sack, light croched blanket that she cuddles and a white noise machine. She wakes normally around 5am for about 15 minutes to eat then goes back to sleep til 8:30.

ETA: About 25% of the time she'll take a pacifier.

pleasebeonsale

My LO sleeps from about 8-8. She sometimes whines in her sleep, but that's about it, it's very rare that she wakes up and cries. 

She hates pacis. She just wants to suck her thumb and cuddle her blanket. She recognizes the phrase, "do you want to go to bed," and will immediately start sucking her thumb and cuddling with me. Then I just go plop her down. 

gogoamy

our lo is an amazing sleeper! she's been sttn since 3 months. she goes to bed at 7 and wakes up anywhere between 7 and 9am. we recently stopped using pacifiers altogether, so she no longer gets one at bedtime. now she just goes to sleep with her lovey and we turn on her seahorse. we're lucky :-)

lmpdjc

smitt2619:

Does your LO sleep for long stretches or wake frequently? Makes noises? Still need to eat? Need a pacifier or white noise? My LO still wakes a few times a night, usually at least twice to eat. It seems he should be old enough not to need to eat during the night, but how do you tell the difference between hunger and comfort nursing? He doesn't really make any noises while he's sleeping, but goes down with a pacifier, a small fan for air circulation and white noise. And he always sleeps in his Halo Sleepsack - it has become a great way to signal that it's sleep time, plus it keeps him warm. So how does your LO sleep at night? Please share your stories.

Dylan is 6 1/2 months old and he sleeps from about 7 p.m. until 6:30 a.m., but we wake him for a 6 oz feeding at around 10:00 p.m. He takes a paci, but spits it out right before he falls asleep and doesn't ever cry for it in the night.  We used to use white noise, but we stopped a few months ago.  He sleeps in a blanket footie sleeper.

Charlotte525

DD goes to bed around 7 and sleeps until 6:30 or 7:00 am.  She doesn't wake at night to nurse anymore. (Now that I said that, however, she'll wake up tonight. Mark my words!) She was a big comfort nurser so we started having DH give her a bottle if she woke up in the middle of the night, thinking it would be easier to cut out than a nursing session.  Now she really only wakes if she is hungry.

She doesn't make many noises - only the occasional chirp or laugh. She does move around in the crib like a wild woman, though: complete 360s and from one end to the other and back again. It's exhausting to watch. She has a white noise machine in her room playing ocean sounds, and a fan to help circulate the air since the door is closed and the window is shut. (We tried to leave the window open but have too many owls in the woods outside the house and they woke her up- so no more fresh air at night!) We also swear by the sleep sack. It's a total switch flipper for her. Zip her up, give her her binky, hand her her lovey blanket and she knows what time it is! We give her a bottle and rock her to sleep still though (egads), which really needs to stop soon. The thought of breaking her of that habit scares me to pieces, though.