anyone have a breastfed baby who...

jnicolen · May 2011

sleeps 12 hours at night without/before a feed?

if so...did it happen "overnight" ie: one day LO was waking in the middle of the night for a feed and the next day he/she wasn't?

or

did LO gradually move the night feed until he/she didn't need it till morning?

belizeitornot · May 2011

not 12 hours, but we usually get 9 minimum. she hasn't woken for a middle of the night feed since the pedi said we could stop waking her... so, at like 3 weeks old? it wasn't gradual that i can recall- or if it was only over a few days.

we usually feed her right before bed and right when she gets up.

curlydoglover · May 2011

He has occasionally gone 12 hours but that's rare. Normally it's 9-10 hours.

He just completely dropped the night feed one day. He'll occasionally pick it back up (growth spurt, etc.) but it's not like it moved or got later and later. It just disappeared.

enjoylife · May 2011

curlydoglover:
He has occasionally gone 12 hours but that's rare. Normally it's 9-10 hours.
He just completely dropped the night feed one day. He'll occasionally pick it back up (growth spurt, etc.) but it's not like it moved or got later and later. It just disappeared.

This is us too.

OhSewCrafty · May 2011

Charlie is BF and sleeps from 8pm to 4am, eats quick, then sleeps until about 8am. So, not exactly 12 hours, but close enough for me.

It sort of happened over night. He found and fell in love with his thumb and started sleeping on his belly all within a few days, then suddenly started sleeping longer an better.

I'm assuming his 4am feeding will get closer and closer to the morning since it has been for the past few months. It used to be 1ish, then 3ish, and now 4/5ish.

larrysdarling · May 2011

Yep. Bedtime= 8, wakeup=6. She's always been a good sleeper. She was doing a 3 am feeding for a long time but dropped it a few weeks ago. This seems to have coincided with learning to self soothe by hand/thumb sucking and rolling by herself onto her tummy to sleep.

Sonadora · May 2011

Ha. No. I wish.

On a great, great, great night, LO gets 10 hours of sleep total in one night. Lately it's been closer to 7-8 total.

RSClementine · May 2011

Yes, we have been getting 12 hours a night for about a month and a half. He used to wake up 2x a night. At one of those feedings, he started eating very little, only for a minute or two. So one night, we didn't go in to get him when he woke up for that feed. He cried about 10-15 minutes, and fell back to sleep. The next night, he slept right through that feed.

One week later we cut out the other feeding the same way. It took another 2 weeks until he reliably slept through the night. He would wake up at 4 or 5 am sometimes.

Before we cut out the feedings, he was giving us at least 6 hours a night, and about once a week would sleep 10-12 hours, so we knew that he could absolutely do it. He found his thumb, and this helped immensely with self soothing.

Now he eats at 6:30pm, in bed by 7pm, and wakes up between 6-7am.

Cheekers2010 · May 2011

enjoylife:
curlydoglover:
He has occasionally gone 12 hours but that's rare. Normally it's 9-10 hours.
He just completely dropped the night feed one day. He'll occasionally pick it back up (growth spurt, etc.) but it's not like it moved or got later and later. It just disappeared.
This is us too.

Yep, us too

utlawgirl · May 2011

OhSewCrafty:
Charlie is BF and sleeps from 8pm to 4am, eats quick, then sleeps until about 8am. So, not exactly 12 hours, but close enough for me.
It sort of happened over night. He found and fell in love with his thumb and started sleeping on his belly all within a few days, then suddenly started sleeping longer an better.
I'm assuming his 4am feeding will get closer and closer to the morning since it has been for the past few months. It used to be 1ish, then 3ish, and now 4/5ish.

This is pretty much us, except Nora goes to bed around 6-6:15 these days. She's up at around 4 for a quick feed, and then back down until 6 or 7 am. The feed has gradually been moving later (this morning was 5:15!) so I'm hoping she's phasing it out... We shall see. FWIW, she used to go 11-12 hours straight, and then suddenly started waking once around 3.5 months.

watermellens · May 2011

It happened gradually for us starting at one week old (5 hours and gradually got to be more)...he rarely goes 11-12 hours but it might have happened once or twice. Usually it's bed at 730/800, eat around 4/5 am and back down until 7/730 am

LaLaaaa · May 2011

In my wildest wet dreams. If I'm lucky she'll go from 8-4, wake up to eat briefly and then go back to sleep until 7 or 8.

JoJoMama730 · May 2011

curlydoglover:

He has occasionally gone 12 hours but that's rare. Normally it's 9-10 hours.

He just completely dropped the night feed one day. He'll occasionally pick it back up (growth spurt, etc.) but it's not like it moved or got later and later. It just disappeared.

This just blows my mind! (in a good way though) I absolutely cannot wait until we get more than a 4-5 hour stretch.

theuntaggablek · June 2011

You could retitle this thread something like, "how to make exhausted breastfeeding moms who aren't sleeping much more than 3 hour stretches insanely jealous!"

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