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Do babies really STTN at 4 days old?
Some jacka$$ on my facebook is always going on and on about how his kid is just sooooooo ahead of all other kids. Crawling at 4 months, walking at 6 - blah blah blah. I just put a status update up about being tired and he comments that his kid start sleeping 11+ hours at 4 days old. Is that even healthy for a newborn? Don't they NEED to eat every 3'ish hours?
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Re: Do babies really STTN at 4 days old?
It depends on their weight at birth. My son would have slept non-stop if did not have to do 3 hour feeds (he was a preemie though).
To add once, DS got to 8 pounds I was allowed to let him sleep, but no more then 8 hours at night.
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Our ex-nanny claimed her daughter STTN before they left the hospital. Who knows.
I think it has to do with weight, but I also thought you were supposed to feed newborns on a regular schedule no matter what. I can't see how it would be healthy for a 4-day-old to STTN.
I was talking with a friend yesterday, and she said that after her first - who was a terrible sleeper - they were shocked that their second slept form 9p.m.-6a.m. starting at 10 days old. However, that only lasted until she was 5 months old. Now she is 10 months and they are sleep training.
So I do believe it can happen, but it's no guarantee you are home free with a great sleeper forever!
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I don't think 11hrs is healthy at 4 days old, but that is my opinion. I probably wouldn't tell your jacka$$ friend that though. what a crazy!
DD was sleeping 12hrs at 8wks or so, but 4 days old - come on.
I totally agree!
I think most newborns need to eat every 2-3 hrs even if they weigh 20lbs at birth. hahaha
That said, my friend overfed her daughter and she got a lot of sleep out of her but I don't think it was at 4 days or anything. She just gave her a ton of formula. I don't advise doing that at all, but I can see if someone does that, where they could get more sleep. You have to wake babies that age even if they are back to their birth weight. My opinion...only....
4 days....4 months....14 months. With my crappy sleeper, it was closest to that last one.
But at 4 days, I was definitely still having to wake to nurse every three hours due to poor weight gain.
my dd (8lb5oz) was a crazy good sleeper. She slept 7hrs the first night in the hospital. The nurses yelled at us! When they discharged us they said wake every 3 hrs and it was a total battle. I'd try for 20 min to wake her up enough to eat and she would fall asleep eating 2 minutes later.
After a week of this I asked the pedi and she said that since she was gaining weight well enough we could let her sleep. She slept from 10pm - 5am every day and then eventually it got longer and longer with no sleep training.
11hrs sounds unsafe to me but good sleepers are out there!
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PS - DS (9lb11oz) is only starting to sleep now at 8 months so don't worry, I got my payback
My twins would have slept all night the first week if we would have let them. Once they got back to birthweight, we let them sleep and they still went 5+ hours. BUT, the older they got, the more they started waking up.
From weeks 3-7, they were up every 3 hours on the dot.
Now, they give us 1 5 hour stretch and 1 3 ish hour stretch at night.
So she might have STTN, but I would certainly not let a 4 day old baby go that long without eating.
When you think about it from a primal perspective, I suppose a newborn who STTN is probably okay. Because if they needed to eat they'd let their parents know, right? They certainly aren't choosing to STTN, but their bodies are telling them it's okay, just like their bodies will tell them (and consequently, us) they are hungry. I just think of prehistoric times and I'm sure the cavepeople were not waking their babies every 2-3 hours to eat!
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My guess is, since he doesn't lactate and sounds like a real peach who likely never got up to help his wife/partner with feedings - she could have told him the baby STTN from day 1 and he would pass that on as gospel.
wow, girls - thanks for all the feedback. i was just under the assumption all newborns needed to wake every 3 hours to eat.
(my "friend" is still a jacka$$ though, lol)
I totally agree! My pedi told me it was ok to let the baby sleep one 5-hr increment at night (and that's at 2 weeks old) but not to go longer than that without a feeding. I can't imagine not feeding a 4-day old for 11 hours, no matter how big they are.
She FF, and he made a point to everyone that he will never change a diaper before the baby was born. nice. :-)