My baby is 12 weeks old and I'm in no rush, other than the fact I go back to work on Wednesday and will be sleep deprived, but he only sleeps 4 to 5 hour stretches at night. Do BF babies ever sleep 8ish hours at a time?
Mine is 10.5wks and he only sleeps 6 hours every now and then. Otherwise, he is still up 3-5 hours. My boobs hurt so much and there is so much leakage when he does go over the 5hour mark that I end up waking up anyway. So at this time, it's a mixed blessing.
I've learned that it really varies from baby to baby. With DS, I was convinced BF babies didn't STTN because he took freaking forever to do it. DD started sleeping 6 hour stretches early on, and has progressed to about 7 or 8 on average, and sometimes 9 or 10. I haven't done anything differently with them, they're just very different sleepers.
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Mine does 8 to 9 hours most nights. I'm up at 3am once a week or so.
This! But I won't lie to you... Due to 5 bouts of mastitis LO is too lazy to feed directly from the breast I had to start exclusively pumping so that 56 ounces around 8:00/10 puts her out for the night
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My dd is 11 weeks and usually sleeps between 610 hours a night before waking up to eat. My ds was also exclusively breastfed and was still waking every 3 hours at this time and once a night until 9 months old. Different babies for sure!
I pretty much hate all of you. Kidding. But I am jealous. My son won't sleep longer than 3-3.5 hour stretches. I think one night we got a 5.5 hour stretch it was GLORIOUS. But usually I am up with him at least 3 times a night. Oh well. STTN will happen at some point I guess.
BFP 1/24/2012 - DS Born 9/22/2012 (11 days early!)
Of course they do. It just really depends on the baby. Some are good sleepers and others just don't sleep as long. My little one will sleep well at night, but often cluster feeds in the evenings before bed.
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This is so depressing...my kid sometimes gets 5 hrs, but last night it was the old school 2.5-3. I felt better about myself when I figured most babies don't sleep so long until much later, but I have been proven wrong.
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Mine has a few times now. He goes to bed at 930 pm and wakes up at 530 am. Idk why though, I don't do anything different than the other ladies on thus broad. I feel really lucky.
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Re: XP: Do BF babies ever STTN?
I think right now it's a hit and miss kind of deal!!
I made rachelmichelle1 my bitch.
DS- Wesley- March 14, 2010
This! But I won't lie to you... Due to 5 bouts of mastitis LO is too lazy to feed directly from the breast I had to start exclusively pumping so that 56 ounces around 8:00/10 puts her out for the night
This! The 8 hour nights are nice, the 6 hour ones aren't so nice.
This.
DD1 was NOT a good sleeper so we did sleep training around 7 months