If you EBF your LO

2poodles2Love · December 2012

How are they sleeping at night? How often do they wake? How old is LO?

DS is 3 months old and usually bf twice in the night. He eats around 12 and then 3am and then sleeps until 730 or 8. Jw when the stretches will get longer.

Par13 · December 2012

My LO is 14 weeks and is on the same schedule as yours. Waking at 12, 3:30, then around 8 for the day. It's getting exhausting, so I'm hoping for some longer stretches soon.

TAGSL710 · December 2012

He's down at 9/930 up around 12/1230 then usually every hour hour and a half from then until 530/6. It is very hard.

Bighair12 · December 2012

Ellie is 4 months tomorrow. She goes down between 7 and 8. She gets up some where between 1 and 2 and I am up for the day at 5 and some times she is up then or I have to wake her.

bal05 · December 2012

She goes down between 78, eats once around 2:30 and 5 and is up for the day around 7...that was on maternity leave...I'll have to tweak it a bit when I go back to work.

2poodles2Love · December 2012

LoisLane23:
Nora is 4 months and sleeps 8p7a.

Jealous! What's the secret?

jenn9812 · December 2012

Well, we used to get a long stretch, 7 to 8 hours, but now we are back to two shorter stretches of anywhere from 2 to 4 hours. Its frustrating, but I'm hoping to get some consistency soon. LO goes to bed around 8.

jbBeans · December 2012

Linden is just about 3 months. She sleeps from something like 10:30 to 6--I'll feed her from one side and then she sleeps about another 3 hrs, although lately she's been skipping that 6am feeding.

I don't have a magic sleep dust answer either, other than that I learned pretty early on that she'll go back to sleep after minor fussing, so I stopped getting her up to feed at those points, like Lois said. Also, clusterfeeding/constant boob in the evening seems to be the price I pay for STTN.

linzeek44 · December 2012

We used to get 8:303, then 47.

Recently, it's been up at 11, 2, 4, 6, and 8. I think it is a combination of growth spurt plus weird routines with traveling.

swgal · December 2012

She sleeps 10 to 8 with no wake ups at almost 4 months. At 3 months I think she was waking up once. I feed on demand and that is often every 2 hours during the day and never more than 3 hour stretches.

Jams1002 · December 2012

We cluster feed in the evening, down at 8, up at 5 and then down again until 830.

Jeberg · December 2012

Alivia is 3 months and goes down around 9:30 and sleeps until 5am ish and then goes back to sleep for another couple of hours. She just started doing this last week. She has even thrown a couple of 9 hour stretches in there. Before she started this though she went through a couple of really bad phases where she was up every hour to two hours at night.

FWIW DS was up every 3 hours and didn't STTN until he was 8 months old. Every child is different. He will get there!

JulesDiane · December 2012

Brynn is 3 months as of the 18th. She is EBF and usually sleeps from about 9pm 8am. She has been sleeping through the night since about 6 weeks. One thing that I think really helps is that we still swaddle her. I dread when we have to lose the swaddle.

Bookelly · December 2012

ambekirt:
Ellie is 4 months tomorrow. She goes down between 7 and 8. She gets up some where between 1 and 2 and I am up for the day at 5 and some times she is up then or I have to wake her.

This, almost exactly.

melody921 · December 2012

DD is almost14 weeks, and she sleeps from 7:30 until 6:30 most days. She started sleeping through the night (9:30 to 6:30) around 9 weeks.

MrsKipper · December 2012

Nola is 4 months old. She usually goes down for the night around 11 or 12 and sleeps until about 8 or 9. She's been doing this since maybe 10 to 12 weeks. I can't exactly remember when she started STTN but it was before 3 months. She nurses about 6 times a day.

GR8TDANEMOM · December 2012

My lo is 16 weeks and he sleeps from 7or 8 to around 2 or 3 then goes back to sleep until 6. He has been doing this for months.

CdnFarmGirl08 · December 2012

DS will be three months old tomorrow and is down for the night at 7:30 and up at 1:30 and then 4 and then 7:30 for the day.

I tried keeping him up later, or feeding him later by dream feed or if we are out and he is still up at those times.

I'm waiting for the time when we will be down to one feed.

However, I guess he is fighting a pretty bad cold, so that probably doens't help.

cmumama · December 2012

My LO isn't consistent. He is 3.5 months old. Last night he went down around 7 pm, up at 2 am (nursed on one side) and back up at 7 am. The night before he slept from 7:30 pm - 6 am, nursed and then back down until 9 am. Every night is different. I give him a bottle of pumped milk before bed.

MississippiCatfish · December 2012

Eddie is 12 weeks. He goes to bed around nine, wakes around 5 to eat, and then sleeps about 3 more hours. I do BF about every 2 hours and sometimes even more often in the evening before bed.

pumpkinhead4 · December 2012

I am glad I am not alone in the frequent waking! LO is down between 7-8, up around 11, 2:30, 4 or 5 and back down until 7-8. She used to sleep 6 hrs straight but no longer. Weird. Cluster feeding at night is a good idea, I am going to go back to doing that.

thebanich · December 2012

Finn is not very consistent. He usually eats at 8 and then 11 and wakes back up around 4 but sometimes he is up every 2 hours. Right now he wakes up every time he coughs and screams for 20 minutes.

mrsbhk22 · December 2012

My LO is 13w. She eats around 10 or 11 and then sleeps to 5ish. The. She wakes every 2 to 3 hrs until she's up for the day between 9 and 10.

DS1, my 5 lbs 'er, slept 12 hrs straight by 12 weeks.

DS2 didn't sleep through the night until he was 18 months old.

So DD is somewhere in the middle of her brothers. I'll take it. It's frustrating through if you want more sleep.

alice2Bcheshire · December 2012

The littles are 15w and are fed on demand. They eat no less frequently than every three hours during the day, and bedtime is around 7-7:30. DS2 will usually nurse three times before waking for the day around 8, and DD will usually nurse twice during that same period. Sometimes they wake at the same time, but I actually prefer if they don't since we bedshare and I nurse laying down for the MOTN feedings whenever I can.

DS1 woke for at least one MOTN feeding until he was 14 months, no matter how often he ate during the day. Some kiddos just need the extra calories.

jussagirl02 · December 2012

LoisLane23:
Nora also clusterfeeds right before bed, so she's on the boob at 5, 6, and 7:30 or 8.

This is us exactly too. I feed every 2 to 3 hours during the day, clusterfeed similar to the schedule above, put her down around 8 and wake her at 6:15.

VineyardMel · December 2012

DD is 14 wks. I feed her every 2-2.5 hours during the day. She has several naps during the evening but she won't go down for more than an hour until around 10p and then still wakes every 3-ish hours to eat (often taking about an hour to eat). She was sleeping longer stretches (around 5hrs) but that stopped at around 11wks and I can't seem to get her to sleep longer again. Putting her paci in and patting her when she starts to stir might buy me an extra 1/2 hour, but that's it. I'm trying to accept that she has no plans to STTN anytime soon and I'm just going to have to figure out how to go back to work next week and function well on very little sleep.

ifwisheswerefishes · December 2012

LoisLane23:
Nora also clusterfeeds right before bed, so she's on the boob at 5, 6, and 7:30 or 8.

This is kinda what Marian does too, except add a 10pm dreamfeed in there occasionally. And then she's down until DH leaves for work around 5am, which wakes her up. I nurse her back down within fifteen minutes, and we usually get until 7-10am.

ELCJet · December 2012

DD is 14 weeks.....she either wakes 2 or 3 times at night. On good nights, she wakes between 1 and 2, and again between 3:30 and 5am. She is up for good around 6:30am.

On bad nights, she is up at 11, 3, and 5....and still up for good at 6:30am. She's always ravenous when she wakes up.

diskogurl · December 2012

ds is 3.5 months and eats a 5 oz bottle of pumped BM at 9 and then wakes up at 6:30 to eat, goes back down till 9:30 to eat again. He used to sleep 12 hours before eating but I still consider myself very lucky.

bosha711 · December 2012

dd goes down about 8:30, sleeps till 4:30-6:30ish, nurses, then wakes approx 7:30 for the day. she's been doing this for a month or so.

ds would sleep 9-3am, nurse, sleep till 6, nurse again & then wake for the day at about 8. He did that for the longest time!

2poodles2Love · December 2012

Thx for all the replies!

acassidy · December 2012

These posts make me want to cry!

My LO goes down between 11-12 and sleeps until 2-3. Then he's up every 1-2 hours until 9. He also feeds every 2 hours during the day!

He hates the RNP, the cosleeper, pacis, swaddling, naps, and apparently sleep.

I am dreading going back to work next month.

emasters · December 2012

Hunter has been falling asleep very consistently around 9:30 or 10 every night since about 6 weeks old. He still gets up a couple times, but I have never let him fuss to see if he falls back to sleep, mostly because MH taps me to get up at the first noise he makes (he's a very light sleeper and likes his sleep...). If I'm lucky he will sleep 6-7 hours in his RnP. 5 hours is the norm, so he gets up around 3:00, then maybe one more time before I get up for work around 5:30 or 6:00. We bed share after the first feeding, so we both fall right back to sleep. He will sometimes sleep until close to 8, so MH has to wake him up to get him ready and take him to my mom's.

pawstech09 · December 2012

DS is about 3.5 months old now, he usually eats around 9 and/or 11, sometimes again at 1, but usually at 3 and then it's every 2 hours after that at 5 and 7 and then for the rest of the day. He doesn't sleep very long stretches at all.

abbs815 · December 2012

Tenly is 3.5 months old. I feed her on both sides before bed which is about 9 and she will sleep until about 8. If I do hear her fussing I repacifier her before I pick her up to feed her to see if she will go back to sleep. We also swaddle which I swear helps her know that it's time to let Mommy sleep :-) She is also still sleeping in the RnP next to me, I'm going to move her to her crib next week...hopefully!

BabySeaTurtles · December 2012

2poodles2Love:
How are they sleeping at night? How often do they wake? How old is LO? DS is 3 months old and usually bf twice in the night. He eats around 12 and then 3am and then sleeps until 730 or 8. Jw when the stretches will get longer.

Mine is about the same schedule as yours but I have noticed that on the cooler nights he will skip the midnight feeding. For some reason being cooler helps him sleep deeper.

Tampasomedaybride · December 2012

He nurses and gets a supplement bottle of donor milk around 7:30-45 and then we swaddle and nurse to sleep around 8. He typically sleeps until 3-4 am and then nurses in bed until I get up around 8.

Flamingemu · December 2012

L will be 4 months next week. She is down for the night around 8:30. I dream feed when I go to bed and she sleeps until about 4 (sometimes 5 or 6). She goes right back down and is up for the day around 7:30.

eliza261 · December 2012

ds is 3.5 months old.. he gets about 2-3 oz of bmilk before nursing down till about 10.. then usually up around 7am..

Nita2603 · December 2012

3.5 months and on good nights he wakes twice. On bad ones he wakes every two hours at least. It seems like we just shifted to a goodgoodbad three day rhythm. But that started two weeks ago. Before that we only had bad nights.

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