How long is your baby sleeping?

missmiss307 · May 2011

Just wondering what the averages are (after reading the thread about putting baby in the crib for the first time). Of course, I am dreaming of the day when we get a good 8 hours of sleep again. Right now, it seems like Noah averages about 4-5 hours in a row. He is 6 weeks old.

So, how old/how long for your LO? Also, do you have anything special in your nighttime routine that you think has helped?

Ginafawny · May 2011

During the day I am lucky to get 3 hours out of her but at night she sleeps between 5-7 hours. During the day we have no routine. At night we do and you can tell that it helps a lot and she gets so fussy if we dont stick to it. At 7:30pm we take a walk around the block, 8pm bottle, 8:30 bath, after her bath I rock her and we read a story until 9pm and then she goes to bed (sleepy) in her crib where she will fall alseep on her own. I love my kindle for reading to her because it is so easy to hold and lightweight. Right now we are reading Alice in Wonderland, the old version, and we read about a chapter a night.

vintagemommy · May 2011

She will be 10 weeks on Thursday and sleeps from 7-9 hours at night. She started at 7 weeks with 6-7 hours and 8 weeks at 7-8 hours. I am one happy Mommy, but I still get up at 2am to pump :-(

MissYouDietCoke · May 2011

We start bedtime between 6 and 630. Any later, and we face 2h of LO screaming bc he's overtired. Nightly routine is bath (every other day), new clean clothes, book and nursing.

He sleeps from between 7-8p and until 2-4am, and then from an hr after he wakes up until 7-8am.

So, 7hrs straight, even though I don't go to bed with him right at 7p. I have been getting 7hrs of sleep each night, though (even w/ the 1 wake up)

Twinkz · May 2011

During the day I am lucky to get 2 hours but at night DS sleeps between 2-6 hours. So we're still without a routine. Things are improving some since we starting having him sleep in his carseat and my breastmilk is returning to normal (I had mastitis and he HATED eating during and after because of the flavor)

Our routine involves 1oz out of a bottle mixed with his probiotic given by DH, then I nurse him until he's full. Then he gets swaddled, put in his carseat, and the sleep sheep turned onto rain. Some nights I read to him some nights we don't - if he's really refusing sleep and fussy I'll read for certain, otherwise it's hit or miss.

ETA: He's 6 weeks old and we start getting him ready around 7:45pm

MrsChelseaP09 · May 2011

Ginafawny:
During the day I am lucky to get 3 hours out of her but at night she sleeps between 5-7 hours. During the day we have no routine. At night we do and you can tell that it helps a lot and she gets so fussy if we dont stick to it. At 7:30pm we take a walk around the block, 8pm bottle, 8:30 bath, after her bath I rock her and we read a story until 9pm and then she goes to bed (sleepy) in her crib where she will fall alseep on her own. I love my kindle for reading to her because it is so easy to hold and lightweight. Right now we are reading Alice in Wonderland, the old version, and we read about a chapter a night.

This is my DD. She starts getting fussy around 6pm and we will nurse and rock while listening to her lullaby CD and then she goes to bed. I have been trying to keep her up later, if she goes to bed at 10pm, I normally get to sleep in until 6-7am. Luckily if she goes to bed at 6-7pm, she wakes around 4am and then goes back to sleep for a few hrs

hispenguin · May 2011

DD is sleeping between 8-10 hours at night. Last night she went to sleep at 10:30pm, got up at 6 to eat, went back to sleep and then slept until around 9:30.

mrsjanks · May 2011

He's 12 weeks old... naps are an hour if we're lucky.

If we get 6 hours at night, we're lucky. This kid loves to eat.

laura&ry · May 2011

vintagemommy:
She will be 10 weeks on Thursday and sleeps from 7-9 hours at night. She started at 7 weeks with 6-7 hours and 8 weeks at 7-8 hours. I am one happy Mommy, but I still get up at 2am to pump :-(

Ditto this, basically.

myst33 · May 2011

He usually goes to bed around 10 and wakes up at around 1 or 2am to eat. I think I'm one of the only ones whose pedi still wants us to wake him up to eat. Since I bf and ff and he has to stay upright for at least 30 mins after, it takes between an hour and 1.5 hrs. Then, he's usually up at 4ish with 20 mins of sleep here and there. It's really draining. During the day, he'll sleep about 2hrs, although sometimes these 2 hour naps are back to back with only feeding between. Then he'll have days like yesterday when he really didn't nap at all.

lmg423 · May 2011

We start around 8 usually and hope to have her down by 9. She will wake up between 3 - 6 and then sleep again til 7 - 9. I feel really lucky to have such a good sleeper. I was worried at first that she slept too much.

She kind of came this way. At first, we didn't have much of a routine at first and would just take her up to bed with us around 10-11. There were a few nights with crying until 1 and hten waking again at 3. But that lasted only a few nights.

anna2029 · May 2011

LO is 11 weeks and sleeps 2-3 hours at a time.

StellarStina26 · May 2011

DD is 10 weeks. She has about 2 or 3 naps during the day. Naps differ each day.. sometimes they are 1 hour and sometimes they are 2-3 hours. These are sometimes in her carseat, swing, or next to me on the bed.

We settle for nighttime around 11pm and she is asleep by midnight. She wakes-sorta about 5 or 6am and I just latch her and she feeds and falls back asleep. She then sleeps until 8 or 9am. We bedshare, so she is right there next to me all night. Works best for us.

skio · May 2011

I think it was my crib post that made you ask this.

DD sleeps 7-10 hours at night and is 9 weeks old. I started a nighttime routine with her at 2w, which is bath, lotion massage, sing & swaddle, nurse, rock to sleep, bed. I don't think any one particular part is the key, I think its just the regularity that soothes her. I also keep the lights and my voice low during the whole routine, and her sleep sheep goes on to rain sound when I put her down. It took her a good week to recognize the routine, but she was sleeping 5-6 hours regularly by 4w.

JessesGirl&MackenziesMom · May 2011

Our baby went from 3 hours to 5 hours the very first night we started using the Johnson's bedtime bubble bath. The commercials claim it is clinically proven to help infant's nighttime sleep.

She is up to 6-8 hours now. There is no way I can go 8 hours without pumping, even with tylenol. I'm working on reducing the amount I pump in the night slowly. Ugh my boobs are tingling just thinking about it. I probably sleep 5 hours- after she goes to bed I wash her clothes & bottles and clean up from dinner, so I'm not going to bed when she is.

RayRay007 · May 2011

3-5 wks about 6 hours.

5-7 wks about 8 hours.

Week 7- growth spurt! 4 hours max.

Since - 9-10 hours, and then back down for a couple more hours.

She naps about an hour at time, 4 times a day.

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