How long is your 7 week old sleeping at night?

vonhva03 · January 2012

My 7 week old is a night owl. Once she does fall asleep, she usually sleeps 3-4 hours, then is up for a couple hours including eating time, then she goes back down for 2-3 hrs. No consistently yet. I'm exhausted!

crh1221 · January 2012

My daughter sleeps for about 6 hours, will wake up to eat and is up for maybe 30 min, then goes back down for 4 hours. This is a total rough schedule. The other night was a fluke and she slept for 8 straight hours.

Until just recently, I was unwrapping her from being swaddled, bringing her into our room, feeding her, then wrapping her back up and rocking her back to sleep in her room. Now, as soon as I hear her fussing a little over the monitor I drag myself out of bed, leave her swaddled, feed her in HER room, and she goes back to sleep almost immediately after she's finished eating and it has REALLY cut back her awake time. Very nice since I'm back to work already.

Folsom101610 · January 2012

Night before last she slept for 6.5 hours, changed, bottle and back down for 3 more hours. Last night she slept for 7 hours, changed, bottle and back down for 3.5 more hours. I have been bathing, swaddling and feeding her so that she will be in her PNP at 10pm, with the same routine the last two nights. She is in bed now, hoping she sleeps 8 hours tonight!

erinemcg · January 2012

5 hours, an hour feeding then 4 hours or so

junebug_07 · January 2012

My LO will be 8 weeks on Monday and her sleep habits have changed a lot just in the past few weeks. She went from a schedule identical to your LO's to sleeping for a slightly longer stretch (first 4.5 hours, then 5.5 hours about 2 weeks ago). Just this past week she dropped a nighttime feeding and started sleeping from 8 until about 4.

We are still swaddling at night and that makes all the difference for us-I knew it calmed her, but after a few nights a couple of weeks ago of trying just the wearable blanket without the swaddle and having her wake up every 2-3 hours again I realized that it really does help her stay asleep!

vonhva03 · January 2012

We have tried the swaddler but she doesn't like her arms pinned down. Maybe we should try again. She sleeps in a RNP, but after her feeding, she usually falls asleep on my chest while I sleep more. Lately, by the time she falls asleep its between 2-3 am. then sleeps till 6 or 7 or so, eats and is back down for 2 or 3 more hours. But if we go out, she sleeps like an angel in the car and stores....deep sleep. It's only at night. I don't know what to do

EveryNameIWantIsTaken · January 2012

She'll sleep anywhere from 3-6.5 hours her first stretch, wake for about 1-1.5 hours to eat and general not sleeping, back to sleep for another 3-4 hours, wake to eat again and sometimes may go back to sleep, sometimes is up for a long time. She's really not very consistent yet but with ds at this age he was up about 5 times a night so I feel like this is good.

sap05e · January 2012

My daughter was just starting to go 5-6 hour stretches at that point. I think waking to feed during the day helped. They learn to eat more and be awake during the day.

Cherryblossoms07 · January 2012

vonhva03:
My 7 week old is a night owl. Once she does fall asleep, she usually sleeps 3-4 hours, then is up for a couple hours including eating time, then she goes back down for 2-3 hrs. No consistently yet. I'm exhausted!

This sounds exactly like my son! I am right there with you in terms of exhaustion, especially since I have an early bird 2 year old also. According to my pedi the bright side to our crummy luck of having a terrible sleeper is that they usually hit their milestones a lot quicker. DS started rolling from front to back shortly after turning 1 month old.

MrsT2008 · January 2012

her first stretch is around 6-7 hours then she eats and normally right back to sleep for another 3-4 hours

elledizzy · January 2012

5-8 hours, then a bottle, then back for 2-3 more. He'll be 7 weeks on Tuesday.

mrsgabus · January 2012

At 7 weeks he was sleeping 4 hours at night then up to eat then back to bed for another 3.

Around 10 weeks He started giving me a few days a week from 10pm to 7am

crh1221 · January 2012

Pretty sure I jinxed myself by posting about how she sleeps, for she was up every 3 hours last night. Ha.

faBriezy · January 2012

She sleeps from about 8:30-2:30ish then eats, then sleeps another 3 hours, eats again and will snooze on and off until we get up at 7am. Keeping her swaddled and not changing diaper (unless I smell poop) in the middle of the night has cut down on awake time.

Tink112011 · January 2012

DS goes to bed by 11pm. He then sleeps for 4-5 hours, eats, and then sleeps 2-3 more hours. Even though he grunts/cries to be fed, he doesn't actually wake up. His eyes stay closed the entire time that he eats (BF) and he goes right back to sleep when I lay him down again.

soldierswife · January 2012

Initially she sleeps for about 4-5 hours and then up about 3 hours later.

jillmatheny · January 2012

Wow, now I'm depressed about this! DD will be 7 weeks in 2 days and I'm lucky if I get a 3 hour stretch. Normally she still wakes up every 1 1/2 to 2 hours to eat, so I'm up about 4 times each night to feed her. I'm sooo tired!

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