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STTN - Twinkies having 3 am PARTIES!!

Ignyte1303Ignyte1303
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Any suggestions on how to get my 6 mo twinkies to STTN?? They are very good nappers (2 per day - 45 to 90 min each) and are put down around 9 pm each night with a cereal bottle...but at/around 3 am EVERY NIGHT it?s a party in the co-sleeper....grunts and growing then all out screams if we don't give them a bottle...HELP!!! at first I thought this was normal until I looked through the other posts of moms boosting of 10-12 hr stretches...we've tried pacies, letting them soothe themselves back to sleep, snack size bottles...I'm running out of ideas and my lack of sleep is catching up to me...ANY suggestions would be GREAT!!....Thanks ladies!! 

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Re: STTN - Twinkies having 3 am PARTIES!!

  • schoolsoutbrideschoolsoutbride
    When do they get up? 9pm sounds pretty late for that age, and they may actually sleep better going to bed closer to 7. At that age DS slept 7-7, ate once or twice a night and napped 2hrs 2x a day. I dint think its unusual for them to want to eat 1x a night.
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  • leslie13510leslie13510

    Waking up once at 6 months to eat is pretty normal actually.  While some kids are STTN by that age, there are many more who are not. 

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  • jamie217jamie217

    ours just started sleeping through the night a week and a half ago.  I slowly weaned them of their night feedings after talking to pedi.  They we had to CIO for 2 nights.  One sleeps from 7pm-6am without any wakings.  The other is smallers and sometimes wakes and fusses for 5 mins or so, but wakes btwn 5am-5:15 and is ready to eat, I'm hoping once she gets a little bigger she can make it to 6am too.

    The Sleep Easy Solution helped alot.

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  • LakeGenevaBrideLakeGenevaBride
    Wow, 9pm!  Mine can't seem to stay awake past 6:15pm (we've tried to keep them up later to see if they sleep later but it never works). Baby A used to sleep 12 hrs, then recently he started waking up at between 1 and 4 to "play".  He would be in his crib talking up a storm.  I rarely feed him since I know he can go till 5 without a bottle.  If he is talking real loud, we put him in the pnp in the other room so he doesn't wake up his brother.  If it wasn't 3am it would be pretty cute.  We tried everything to get him to go back to sleep.  One night my DH took him in the other room and slept next to the pnp and let him cry for an hour.  Fortunately I didn't know about it till the next day.  Now when he wakes up before 5am one of us moves him to the pnp and he goes back to sleep without crying.  
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  • kaitley44kaitley44 member

    Mine aren't even close to STTN. They are up at least twice, but usually three times a night. I heard it was very normal to wake at least once a night to eat through nine months old.

    My babies have fallen slightly off their weight curve, so my doc said to feed them when they wake at night. I EBF so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I have tried everything to get them to eat more during the day, but they just won't.

    I also agree with others that maybe their bed time needs to be earlier. Mine can't stay up past 7pm, and I have tried. Maybe you can try making their bedtime earlier and give them a dream feed right before you go to bed.

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  • Ignyte1303Ignyte1303
    imagekaitley44:

    Mine aren't even close to STTN. They are up at least twice, but usually three times a night. I heard it was very normal to wake at least once a night to eat through nine months old.

    My babies have fallen slightly off their weight curve, so my doc said to feed them when they wake at night. I EBF so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I have tried everything to get them to eat more during the day, but they just won't.

    I also agree with others that maybe their bed time needs to be earlier. Mine can't stay up past 7pm, and I have tried. Maybe you can try making their bedtime earlier and give them a dream feed right before you go to bed.

     

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    THANK YOU all for the advice and letting me know this is somewhat normal... I will def try the earlier bedtime with the dream feed before I go to bed...Merry Christmas!! Smile

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