How do you define SSTN?

Heidi2004 · April 2011

I was reading in an article that SSTN at 14 weeks was anywhere from 5-6 hours a night... I don't consider that STTN... me it would be more like 8 hours... what do you think?

d&a914 · April 2011

Medically speaking it is 5-6 hours, but according to my sleep schedule that is way off! My LO would sleep about 6 hours, wake up to eat and go back to sleep for about 4 more hours at that age. So it wasn't too bad!

LittleGus · April 2011

Yeah whoever said it was 5-6 hours must not have kids. I defined it as me going to bed after her, sleeping, and waking up before her.

Marielle0430 · April 2011

I define it as me going to bed at night and DS not waking up until at least 6am. For some reason if it's 5:50am I feel like he didn't STTN lol. We used to go to bed normally by 11-11:30pm but now it's more like midnight with the baby so not a huge difference. He normally wakes up at 6am the earliest but sometimes as late as 8:30am. We started day care this week and DS is falling asleep a couple hours earlier than usual. This resulted in him getting up at 2:30am to eat last night/this morning. We aren't used to this anymore so I am soooo sleepy here at work lol.

Mrslovebugs · April 2011

CaraM01:
Yeah whoever said it was 5-6 hours must not have kids. I defined it as me going to bed after her, sleeping, and waking up before her.

This. Medically speaking 5-6 hrs is STTN. IMO STTN is not until at least 8hrs without waking up.

"Medically" DD is STTN, but in reality she's not.

MJHershey · April 2011

To me honestly it means I don't have to get out of bed in the middle of the night to attend to him. Smile

We get a 6-7 hour stretch, sure... but we don't go to bed until 3 hours into it, so it does us no good.

hopkins5 · April 2011

MJLab78:
To me honestly it means I don't have to get out of bed in the middle of the night to attend to him.
We get a 6-7 hour stretch, sure... but we don't go to bed until 3 hours into it, so it does us no good.

Us too. STTN = You put LO to bed and don't wake up again until you're ready to start your day the next morning.