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Still not sleeping through the night?

chickpea03chickpea03
in March 2011 Moms

My almost 4 month old (the 20th) is still not sleeping through the night. We get one good stretch from about 7-11 or 12, but then it seems he wakes up every 2 hours after that to eat. We always try the pacifier first and sometimes can get another hour out of that, but most of the time he's actually hungry and just spits it out. 

He goes down for naps and bedtime great- no fussing, just falls right asleep most nights. Takes about 3 naps a day, roughly 1 hour each.

I got the book "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" and it seems more focused on babies having a hard time GOING to sleep (but I've just glanced through it so far). So my question is (and we'll ask his ped at his 4 month appt also) can we start some kind of sleep training to get him to sleep through the night, or is this still "normal" waking to eat and just keep feeding him? He goes down great, it's just the sleeping for longer stretches we haven't gotten to yet. This is my first, so I'm not sure what's just normal behavior and what we can actually work on. Any advice? TIA! 

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  • gullterregullterre
    Are you BF?  I am and Jamie still wakes up 2 times in the night.  I think it is totallt normal for babies to not STTN.  I think I read somewhere that only 50% of babies 6 months and under STTN.  A lot of my friends have babies that wake up a couple of times.
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  • lyzabethlyzabeth member
    we started sleep training at 9wks. i say go for it.
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  • lnickylnicky member
    I don't think it's abnormal. My lo has been sttn for awhile, but my friend's babe didn't sttn until she was 9 months old! We both ebf. Who knows why. I hope you get some longer stretches soon!
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  • Sarai28Sarai28
    Ds still wakes, but I only feed him once through the night.  He goes to bed around 9:30 and wakes at 2am almost on the dot each night- we just put his paci in his mouth and he's back to sleep.  Then up again at 4.  I wasn't feeding him at 4, but he was really restless until 5:30 or so, so I started feeding him again at the 4 o'clock wake-up.  Then he sleeps pretty soundly until 7:30.  Some nights he wakes a few more times, just for the paci.  I wish I knew what exactly woke him up, it's exhausting!  He is mostly bf, but has some formula- one being a bottle before bed.  We have our 4 month apt this week and I'm going to ask about cereal in the bottle, hoping that helps.  Good Luck!!
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  • sweetpea2718sweetpea2718
    i BF and we get one long stretch (8-2 or 3) if he gets up before that, we try the paci.  He chows down at the 3:00 wake up though! after that, it's pretty much every 2 hours til 7.  We do give cereal (not in a bottle... spoon fed) after his dinnertime feeding. 
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  • TwinkzTwinkz
    DS eats 2 to 4 times a night still, he's EBF
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  • gullterregullterre
    I know what you mean with the "exhausting" comment!  Sometimes when I wake up I feel like I am delirious.  I put him on the boob, lean back and close my eyes b/c they feel so heavy.  Luckily he usually goes back to sleep pretty quickly!
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  • chickpea03chickpea03
    This was SO helpful, thanks everyone! He is EBF, so I kind gathered from the info I've read that this was still common and really there wasn't much we could do. He does get cereal (spoon-fed) and I was hoping that would help, but not yet. Oh well, just didn't win the lottery with a "sleep through the nighter" :)
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  • DucatiLeahDucatiLeah
    I have to remind myself that sttn is defined as sleeping for at least 5 hours. I also EBF and the best I ever get is from 10 pm - 4 am, then she's up for the day at 6:30. It's not awesome, but it works and she goes back to sleep well so it isn't too painful. I stopped doing middle-of-the-night diaper changes when she stopped pooping overnight and that helped a ton.
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  • tistampsuptistampsup member

    Is he strictly BF or FF? 
    We started introducing cereal about 3/3.5 months right before bed.  It helped a lot!  I know...studies say different, but I'm telling you....it really helped stretch his sleep during the night.  We were up every 2-3 freaking hours.  Now that he actually sleeps a bit better, he's so much more happier and playful during the day.

     

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  • heyleeheylee member
    My babies STTN much more now since starting solids. Their Dr said they need more calories during the day.
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  • SCtoDCSCtoDC

    imagelyzabeth:
    we started sleep training at 9wks. i say go for it.

    He slept through the night on his own once at 7 weeks, we started sleep training from there and never looked back.  He's slept through the night all but 2 times since then, and those two times we just put the paci back in and everyone went back to sleep.

    My pediatrician said that once they weigh 10lbs, they have enough fat stores to make it through the night.  Go for it!

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