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What does STTN mean for you?
My LOs are two months. I think the nights have gotten better, but mainly because I've gotten used to it, not that they are necessarily sleeping longer. Some recent posts have made it seem like their LOs are STTN and I just wonder what exactly that means to everybody?
We all go to "bed" around 10 after I feed them. But they usually wake up between 1-2, then 4-5 and finally 7-8 am. I have a feeling DD would sleep longer than DS, and sometimes I wake her to feed and sometimes I don't. When I don't, she might wait for the next feeding or she might wake up 30 minutes after DS is back to sleep. We co-sleep, swaddle and do white noise and they are EBF.
I know they say consistency is so important. but how can you be consistent when you don't know what works best and you're still trying to find your way?! Running a little ragged and ready for them to sleep longer.
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Re: What does STTN mean for you?
To me STTN is putting them to bed at 8 and them not waking for a feeding until 6, 7, or 8 am.
That being said, my boys STTN at 12 weeks- and you are right routine is a huge help. Also I EPed for my boys- with a supplement of Neosure during the day since they were preemies.
We started having some kind of routine at 8 weeks- pjs, diaper, bottle, bed in their cribs with white noise machine at 8 pm. They started by waking usually at 2 or 3- if one was up both got up. The time they woke in the middle of the night started going longer- I remember it being around 5am- around the time my DH woke for work- I was thrilled! Then one night they didn't wake until 7 am- and there has been no turning back!
unfortunately my LOs didnt STTN (meaning go to sleep at 8 and not wake till 5 or later) until they were over a year.
They sometimes had longer stretches of sleep before then and sometimes not. It wasn't uncommon for them to be up 3 or 4 times a night each to eat and hten go back to sleep.
For me what made a difference was going to bed around 8pm or earlier (basically right after they went to sleep), which gave us more hours to try to get some sleep. Otherwise we never woke a sleeping baby (they didnt do well being woke to eat),
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Agreed!! The 6 hrs is nonsense, especially if it's something like 7-1 or 8-2. That's "sleeping a nice long stretch" but in no way can it be considered "sleeping through the night." Some professions are silly.
I don't think it has to be 12 hrs but if they're sleeping 11-7 or something where the parents can actually get a decent night's sleep, that counts!
When my boys started STTN at 4.5m, it was from about 8:30 or 9 till around 7 a.m. Then at 8m when we dropped the third nap, we moved bedtime to 7ish and then they slept 7-7. Ah, those were the days.
I consider it 10-12 hours with no wake-ups.
Ours started a stretch from 9pm - 5am at about 12 weeks. Before that it was about 9pm - 3:00am, and eventually the wake up time got longer.
Now, at 7 months we have one that will sleep 7pm-6am (or longer) and one that likes to wake up at 4:00am (see my post below). Not terrible, but I know he can sleep longer and is big enough to do so.
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I agree with this. The girls go to bed around 6:30-7, and when they were getting up at 3-4am that certainly didn't seem like STTN even though it was an 8 or 9 hour stretch. They get up around 6 now, so they get 10-11 hours of sleep a night (and usually sleep for 3-3.5 hours split among 2 naps during the day).
Thanks for all your replies! It is interesting to see all the different scenarios. I expected that with EBF we would not be able to sleep for longer stretches for some time...but like PP said soon enough we will be introducing cereal and maybe that will help.
My goal is to BF them for one year. But as of now, just taking it one day at a time. We are also planning an international move next week, so I haven't been pushing a schedule because I know everything will be up in the air once we move.
At first it meant sleeping more than two hours at a time. Then, it was sleeping in five hour blocks-Heaven. Now, it's a solid 7 p to 7 a for Landry and Hudson.
It's evolving. Honestly, the real relief came when I was able to get five solid hours of sleep.
ETA-you're in the thick of it now. It's all trial and error. You're going to hate me for saying this but, give it another four months and you will be golden.
Once you guys hit about 5/6 months you will be putting them down between 9 and ten and they won't wake until 4 or 5-hang in there.
To me, STTN means I get a decent night's sleep. Like 10-6. Since we put the boys down around 7, I suppose I want them to sleep from 7 to 6. I'll be honest, this rarely happens. But I think I have possibly the worst sleepers on the planet.
My feeling is that all babies are different. People will be quick to tell you their method for sleep. It might work for you, it might not. I personally tried everything in the book (multiple books, actually) and the only thing that helped was the boys getting older. I'm not saying this to be discouraging, but rather to encourage you that if your LOs don't sleep like you want them to, it's not necessarily because you are doing anything "wrong."
This, the boys go down around 7, need nippie replacement a few times a night, then one needs patting around 3 or 4, then up at 5 for bottles then back down in fitfull sleep for a couple hours.
DD slept from 7-7 from about 4 months, took 4 hour naps in the afternoon, she would wake up at 6 sometimes and happily go back to sleep at 7. She finally quit her 3 hour afternoon naps when she was 5!
We do pretty much the same thing with the boys that we did with her, routines and stuff. But they are totally different kids. The only difference is DH. He wasn't around when I had DD (he worked in the Gulf for months at a time), and he has the babies from 3 am on. At some point I need to bite the bullet and trade shifts for a week to see if I can train them but I also get up with DD at 5:40 and pump so it's complicated.