Anyone else have a good sleeper? (clicky poll)

Birdies08

I'm starting to feel crazy lucky- we are nowhere near wanting or needing to sleep train! Should I go buy a lottery ticket? That's not the poll, ha ha. I'm just wondering if most babies are bad sleepers or if there are just a ton of posts because of all the sleep deprived mamas who need help.[Poll]

Sunidaze

We had a rough start to the week...and an occasional rough night...but the past 2 (and hopefully tonight *knock on wood*) we are back to bed at 8:30 up between 6:30 and 7:30.  I'm not sure what was going on start of the week besides the onset of yet another cold.

justme04

Neither of my boys have needed sleep training.  I just put them in bed for the night and they go to sleep.  No fussing.

JayElleJayCee

Avery has  no problem sleeping if she is put in my bed. Then I move her. She will not fall asleep on her own in her bed. So we just do what works. We are not sleep training at the moment. Although I feel like the time to get her in her bed will be coming up. I was at a friends house today who I don't see often and she did the same thing with her daughter who is now 2 and still can't sleep unless she is in her bed. I do not want to have my 2 year old in bed with me every night! I just don't know when to start. I'm chicken.

kimbo1216

Had a horrible sleeper. Now that we have sleep trained, I may even dare to say we have a good sleeper.

Birdies08

kimbo1216:

Had a horrible sleeper. Now that we have sleep trained, I may even dare to say we have a good sleeper.

Woo hoo! I do not function on low sleep. Secondary's confession about CIO got me thinking, because I definitely used to judge sleep training. But then I realized that sure is easy to do when you're getting a full 8 hours... 

OverjoyedMama

DS is fine going to sleep at night, it's the 2-3 wake ups per night that I'm not enjoying. He's only been on his crib for 2 weeks. Prior he was in the PNP in our room and waking up just as much. I know we are probably going to have to sleep train but I'm procrastinating because it means even less sleep for however long the process will take us.

 

Spartanmama722

He was decent (slept 6:30-4:30 or 5:30 every night) until we stayed at the ILs over Christmas. Then he regressed back to waking up to eat a few times a night. I'm waiting to see whether he's going to go back to his old routine now that we're home (seems like he's getting there but not totally yet), or whether I'm going to need to do some sleep training. Let's not talk about naps though. He is the worst. napper. ever.

maddiemoon43

OverjoyedMama:

DS is fine going to sleep at night, it's the 2-3 wake ups per night that I'm not enjoying. He's only been on his crib for 2 weeks. Prior he was in the PNP in our room and waking up just as much. I know we are probably going to have to sleep train but I'm procrastinating because it means even less sleep for however long the process will take us.

 

This, except he has been in his crib since for 2 months.  When he was in PNP (and prior to 4MW he was sleeping 11-7, then going down earlier and earlier.  He has woken once a night since 4MW (then to play and stay up, not to eat and goes right back down). 

We transitioned to crib at 4.5 months after a trip (figured he'd slept in random places and hadn't been in our room and PNP for 10 days, why reintroduce that?), and he went down no problem.  In the last month or so he has been waking 2x to eat, and some nights over the past week or two he has been up 3x!  He always goes right back down after eating...but I don't know what the best plan is.  He is distracted and isn't eating enough during the days, and he is only at like the 25th percentile, so don't want to limit food. 

BES21

My daughter will sleep 12 hours at night.  Sometimes she wakes once.  Other nights she sleeps the entire 12 hours.  She takes 30 minute naps, but she gets her 14 hours a day so I quit fighting it.  I chose that she sleeps like a champ.  I do rock her to sleep though.

cassoppea

JayElleJayCee:

Avery has  no problem sleeping if she is put in my bed. Then I move her. She will not fall asleep on her own in her bed. So we just do what works. We are not sleep training at the moment. Although I feel like the time to get her in her bed will be coming up. I was at a friends house today who I don't see often and she did the same thing with her daughter who is now 2 and still can't sleep unless she is in her bed. I do not want to have my 2 year old in bed with me every night! I just don't know when to start. I'm chicken.

 

Must be an Avery thing because my Avery is the same way!

We are currently bed-sharing.  We tried for a week to transition and it was a crying fest for at least 2 hours every night.   Some nights we werent even successful getting her to sleep in her crib and some nights it was just a few hours.  In our bed, she will sleep through the night so we're back to that now. 

I really don't want her in our bed at 2, so eventually the transition has to happen...

MommaA117

she was sleeping like a champ until last night when she had her first wake up that she didn't want to go back to sleep for an hour and a half. that was not my baby! I don't know what got into her but I really really really hope that it was a fluke! I think she is either teething or still feeling ill from her cold last week she has also been very fussy today and yesterday.

CarlaAndJames

I dunno, I always count myself really lucky, but we did have to sleep train. She was STTN from 4 weeks until 4 months. At 4 months she started waking up just once a night, and I put up with it, as we got closer to 5 months she started increasing that and waking up as many as 4-5x per night. We did one week of Ferber and she has STTN ever since. So one month of some wakeups since 4 weeks? I consider her a great sleeper. But we did have to teach her how to fall back asleep on her own. 

ladybear06

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sunshine336

I consider a good night to be when Maya has a stretch of sleep that is at least 5 hours long and doesn't wake up more than twice.  I'm not ready to start a formal sleep training regimen, but I have implemented some changes to our routine.  I am now able to place Maya into her crib awake but drowsy.  She cries, but if I roll her onto her tummy, put a paci back in, and pat/ rub her back and the back of her head she will fall asleep.  Small steps.

Mason n me

Great sleeper at night. Just not a great napper!

march2008

"Not a "bad" sleeper, but we are sleep training/did sleep train"

I chose the above option, but only because DD does a pretty good job over night. We have a very rough job with naps though and we're currently sleep training using the Good Night Sleep Tight book as a guide and with a few modifications of our own that I picked up from the No Cry Sleep Solution. DH and I are trying to do this in the most gentle way that we can, but we definitely needed the guidance from these books. They gave us a lot more confidence in what our daughter can do if we let her have the chance.

DD had colic for her first 4 months of life and life was very hard for us for those 4 months, so we're thankful that she's doing much better these days at bedtime and overnight. I'm just hoping that I can tweak her naps so that there are much less tears and fighting as there always have been. Hopefully with a decent routine she will become a better sleeper and will feel more awake and alert during the days.

barefoot barista

She was always an ok sleeper, but after 1.5 days of training, she sleeps like a champ. In one day we worked on putting her down awake for naps, and she has slept 10 hrs straight at night or more since Monday. I feel like a new woman.

gymnst1013

Nikolai had 1 month of de ent sleeping (from 4-5 months) and one night of awesome sleep on Friday. Other than that he's a pretty sucky sleeper.  Something's got to give so we will do some sleep training.

rainstar752

CarlaAndJames:

I dunno, I always count myself really lucky, but we did have to sleep train. She was STTN from 4 weeks until 4 months. At 4 months she started waking up just once a night, and I put up with it, as we got closer to 5 months she started increasing that and waking up as many as 4-5x per night. We did one week of Ferber and she has STTN ever since. So one month of some wakeups since 4 weeks? I consider her a great sleeper. But we did have to teach her how to fall back asleep on her own. 

This, almost exactly.  She was a great sleep from 6 weeks- 5 months.  Then she started waking up 5-6x per night (I think her growing awareness of the world was making it hard for her to stay asleep, and she didn't know how to fall asleep by herself).  Sleep training/Ferber got her back on track and she's now sleeping more than she ever has before- 11-12 hours straight through.

Birdies08

cassoppea:

JayElleJayCee:

Avery has  no problem sleeping if she is put in my bed. Then I move her. She will not fall asleep on her own in her bed. So we just do what works. We are not sleep training at the moment. Although I feel like the time to get her in her bed will be coming up. I was at a friends house today who I don't see often and she did the same thing with her daughter who is now 2 and still can't sleep unless she is in her bed. I do not want to have my 2 year old in bed with me every night! I just don't know when to start. I'm chicken.

 

Must be an Avery thing because my Avery is the same way!

We are currently bed-sharing.  We tried for a week to transition and it was a crying fest for at least 2 hours every night.   Some nights we werent even successful getting her to sleep in her crib and some nights it was just a few hours.  In our bed, she will sleep through the night so we're back to that now. 

I really don't want her in our bed at 2, so eventually the transition has to happen...

We bed share, too I'm not sure when we'll transition her out; we keep waiting for there to be a problem before we change anything, but so far everyone's sleeping well!