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STM+'s who didn't sleep train

musicalmama5musicalmama5 member
in February 2013 Moms
I have a question for you. Especially if you bedshare and nurse to sleep. How long before your LO's started sleeping through the night? I just want to know what I'm looking at here... Some friends IRL said about a year. I think I can handle that.

I'm actually quite happy with DS's sleep recently. He's goes down in his crib around 7:30, usually wakes around 9 at which point I nurse him and put him back in his crib. Then I get myself ready for bed and the next time he wakes up he comes into bed with me and stays there the rest of the night. For the past 4 nights, once he's in bed with me, he only wakes to nurse ONCE. Then we're up for the day around 7. The only part I'm not thrilled with is that DH is on the couch. :( I miss snuggling him. 

Anyway, just curious what to expect!
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Re: STM+'s who didn't sleep train

  • holly321holly321 member
    Dd was about 20 months before it was a 4/5 times things. She had the ability to sttn but didn't. She still wakes usually at least once a week. But I would just get her and put her in our bed. I don't mo d this, because I get back to sleep quicker that way.
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  • wifeofadamwifeofadam member
    Not until I night weaned, which is usually when I get pregnant with the next one.  They start sleeping better (only waking once or twice) once they have been on solids for a bit, close to the year mark.  But completely through the night doesn't happen until they know that they are no longer allowed to have milk through the night.
        
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  • musicalmama5musicalmama5 member
    OK that sounds like about what I was expecting. I actually feel like he's on a good track, since he only wakes once or twice to nurse once he's in bed with me (although this is a fairly new phenomenon). Sometimes he stirs, flails his arm around until it touches me, rolls back over, and falls back asleep. <3 So cute. He just needs to know I'm there. When he's in his crib, he wakes up every hour or two. So bedsharing is definitely the way to go for us. We might just have to get a bigger bed so daddy can come enjoy the snuggles too!
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  • ally2011ally2011 member
    Not to be nosey, but are you sure that is ok with your husband? I can't imagine having to sleep on a couch every night, I would be exhausted. If you want to keep bedsharing, I would definitely get a bigger bed, or put a bed in the nursery.

    We are so thankful that our second daughter, Lillian Elizabeth "Lily", was born healthy and happy on February 11, 2013.  We love her to pieces.  

    We lost our first daughter, Hannah Grace on May 4, 2011.  She was buried on May 14 during a beautiful service at my home church. We are grateful that if she could not be here with us, that she is healed and whole with the Lord. We look forward to the day when we will get to meet her. We love her so much.


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  • ally2011ally2011 member
    Not to be nosey, but are you sure that is ok with your husband? I can't imagine having to sleep on a couch every night, I would be exhausted. If you want to keep bedsharing, I would definitely get a bigger bed, or put a bed in the nursery.

    We are so thankful that our second daughter, Lillian Elizabeth "Lily", was born healthy and happy on February 11, 2013.  We love her to pieces.  

    We lost our first daughter, Hannah Grace on May 4, 2011.  She was buried on May 14 during a beautiful service at my home church. We are grateful that if she could not be here with us, that she is healed and whole with the Lord. We look forward to the day when we will get to meet her. We love her so much.


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  • musicalmama5musicalmama5 member
    ally2011 said:
    Not to be nosey, but are you sure that is ok with your husband? I can't imagine having to sleep on a couch every night, I would be exhausted. If you want to keep bedsharing, I would definitely get a bigger bed, or put a bed in the nursery.
    He said he's fine with it. But since I originally posted this, he has started sleeping in the bed with us again. I think we're all just getting used to it. At this point, DS sleeps snuggled up to me, so DH has lots of space still. It was just a matter of getting the hang of it, I think.
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  • tamarar5tamarar5 member
    In by no means a good person to post advice on sleep, did didn't sttn until she was four and a half YEARS old. Ds sttn from 8 weeks until he was five months but then stopped. Now he is still up two or three times a night. But that is usually because my daughter wakes him. I'm hoping he will get back to sttn around a year when we really start to do solid.
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  • musicalmama5musicalmama5 member
    TamaraR4 said:
    In by no means a good person to post advice on sleep, did didn't sttn until she was four and a half YEARS old. Ds sttn from 8 weeks until he was five months but then stopped. Now he is still up two or three times a night. But that is usually because my daughter wakes him. I'm hoping he will get back to sttn around a year when we really start to do solid.

    I guess this just goes to show that every kid is different!
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