Sleep schedules ??

bennyandthejets13

My son was born 6 weeks early and is currently 5 weeks old and about to hit his due date on the 20th. He's ccurrently eating 2-3oz every 3-4 hours and even to eat that is a struggle as we still have to constantly wake him up to finish his bottle. Anyways my question is when did your preemie start sleeping through the night? I know preemies take a little longer because they need to eat more often to catch up but am wondering when he sleep a little longer at night? TIA

hugmonkey

My daughter was born at 34w5d.  She is now 11 weeks.  About two weeks ago, she started sleeping 5 to 6 hour stretches.  It's not all night, but its not too shabby.

alphaphi98

My DD just turned 9 months old. She was born at 32 weeks with no health problems and spent 25 uneventful days in the NICU. She started STTN at 3 and a half months. It actually happened Christmas night. It was a great present from her. It was a Christmas miracle that she slept 8 hrs straight. Pretty much since then she's good about sleeping 6-8 hr stretches. I know I'm lucky. Every baby is different...preemie or not. Good luck to you. It gets better! Promise!

LnR70707

hugmonkey:

My daughter was born at 34w5d.  She is now 11 weeks.  About two weeks ago, she started sleeping 5 to 6 hour stretches.  It's not all night, but its not too shabby.

DS was also born at this gestation and started longer stretches at 11 weeks.

Pips09

This is pretty baby-specific. Some kids are just better sleepers. My kid did it the first time at about 7 months, but it wasn't with any regularity until a year old. Even at almost 2, now, we still have sleep issues. 

TriciaandSean

My son started sleeping through the night at 9.5 months, prior to that e was up every 3 hrs.

Brummy14

Our girls have gradually increased the amount of sleep between feedings -- granted, with two, it requires the stars aligning to get much more than 4 hours at a time.

I'd say around 3 months adjusted we started seeing the first sleep stretch creeping closer and closer to 5, even 6 hours -- but, just last night, we were still up twice -- midnight and 4:30AM. So, I think we're still a ways away from getting these ladies to STTN -- but the 4-5 hour stretches at a time are pretty dang nice.

As far as I'm concerned, one overnight wake-up is STTN in our house.