Let me know if you bf or ff and how many hours your LO averages at night.
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Right now LO is sleeping about 9 hours at night and is EBF. Mama's in my support group are surprised by this ( I don't think they believe me). I know that there are others on this board who have LO STTN. Not one mother in the group has an EBF baby STTN.
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I have a question for all you ladies: Do these hours mean you go that amount of time without going in at all?
E sleeps from 3-5 hours at a time (usually closer to 3) before needing to eat (EBF) but I go in there a few extra times a night just to put her paci back in. Do you ladies getting 8-9 hours just get to really sleep that long?! I'm a walking zombie. Four months of no sleep is catching up.
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7-8 hours, up for a bottle, down for another 3-4 hours.
FF fed.
I don't go in there at all once my LO is asleep. Once she is out for the night, she is out. I go in her room several times just to check on her but before I go to bed I turn on the monitor.
DS is EBF he usually sleeps 8 hours sometimes 7 sometimes 11. He goes down at 6:30 usually wakes at 2:30/3:00 sometimes as early as 1:30 and sometimes as late as 5:30.
I really think it has a lot to do with weight not so much what they eat. DS weighs 15+ lbs. and as he gains he sleeps longer stretches.
I don't usually have to go in. Ocassionally maybe 1 or 2 times a week he might wake early and need a paci but it isn't a regular thing.
My DD was just like your LO she needed a paci every time she woke even a little bit. We ended up doing some sleep training around 6 months and it wasn't as bad after that.
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EBF. 11 hours (usually 8pm-7am). She's been doing this since about 5 weeks (when she started with 7 hour stretches and built up from there).
I don't go in her room once she's down. But, we don't use a paci, either. So, yes, I'm sleeping from 11-7 uninterrupted every night.
We were doing a solid 8-9 hours, 7 on bad nights until he hit his three month growth spurt a few weeks ago. Then he was good again for a week and has now started teething!
The last week he has been down for 5-6 hours, then back down for another four. I am hoping he starts sleeping well again after teething is done. He isn't a great napper, so he's got to be tired!
ETA: EBF!
5-6 hours then 2-3 hours, BF w/ some supplementation
although last night she slept for 8 hours straight. Random fluke!
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FF, about 8oz every time and sleeps anywhere from 9-12 hours a night.
Aww - hopefully he is just going through his 3 month growth spurt and he settles down for you soon.
Wow. DD has *never* STTN (well, she did once but she was sick with a kidney infection at the time, so I don't count that). She goes from 8pm till midnight/1am. Wskes up, I feed her (ebf) she immediately goes to sleep, wakes up again between 3-4am, feeds again, and then wakes up between 5-6am at which point I bring her to bed with me until we get up at 7am.
The good thing is that she always immediately goes back to sleep as soon as she eats. But I would love a night of uninterrupted sleep!!! She still sleeps in the co-sleeper next to our bed ... I wonder if she would sleep better in her room??
I am sorry! Jack sleeps through from 9:00- 7:45 with a quick snack between 3 and 5. He doesn't wake all the way up for it and it usually takes all of 5 minutes so I count it as sttn. He doesn't use a paci and he sleeps in the p&p right next to me so I don't have to go far. I attribute a couple of things to his good sleeping.
1. I top him off right before bed.
2. He is sleeping close to us.
3. We have never been worried about being quiet so that he can sleep so nothing wakes him! Our lives are fairly noisy.
4. He takes good long naps during the day, I am a firm believer in sleep begets sleep.
I know that I am VERY lucky with this but I have to say, even though he is a good sleeper I am not. I am up with every little sound, movement from Jack, the dogs and DH.
No sleep is tough on the body and the mind. Do you nap during the day with her?