First of all- I'm talking STTN as in down to sleep between 7-10p and up between 7-10a.
If your LO falls into this category, did you do anything special that you think contributes to your success or was LO just ready so it happened? The post about moms BFing in the MOTN made me wonder if I should be offering the pacifier more vs nursing. If DD has gone 4+ hours, I assume she's hungry so I feed her. She's also petite at just 12lbs or so so I'm apprehensive about withholding any calories. That said. I'm quite tired these days. She sleeps 8p-8a but she's typically up between 12-1 and again 5-6. I don't go to bed until 11 or so so that's part of my problem but it'd be great if she could drop one of these feeds. It used to be just 1 but it's been 2 pretty consistently since thanksgiving.
Re: LOs that STTN
We let him fuss himself to sleep (If needed) from very early on. He's been a great sleeper. Up 2x's a night from weeks 2-6, 1x a night from weeks 7-10. From 10 on he's slept from the 9 o'clock hour to the 7 o'clock hour.
ETA: My pedi actually told us if we followed his advice we'd have a great sleeper and other parents would hate us because our baby would be an "easy" sleeper. And he is a good sleeper.
Around 2 months we started putting her in her room. The first week it was the crib but found she slept more soundly in her swing. She woke for a MOTN feed for maybe a few weeks then just one night she stopped. I want to say it was a slowish regression on how often she woke. Then recently she found her thumb and has been soothing with it. If she wakes at night she generally finds her thumb and is back to sleep in a few minutes(we still grab her if she fusses though)
I do wonder if it's my fault she sleeps through the night. She used to wake around 3 am to eat and i wonder if one night I slept through her cries...i don't think that's how it happened but I also can't be sure.
The changes we made was taking her out of the zippadee zip and putting her in a fleece sleep sack (with arms but hands out). She instantly slept longer and with arms above her head/hands to touch things. We tried the sac a few days with cotton pjs under and she slept better but still had a wake up motn. My husband put her in fleece pjs with the fleece sac and she sstn! I now think she might have been waking up cold?!
Anyways we're leaving today for two weeks of traveling now so I'm sure all bets are off.
I might just need to get over it and hope she sorts herself out soon. @Elaina22 our 4 month appointment is Tuesday. I'm hoping we're in the 30th percentile or higher for weight! Fingers crossed emoji.
For both of mine I did nothing to influence dropping nighttime feedings. I did not force X amount of formula during the day in hopes it would make them sleep better.
We have the same schedule, we don't force a schedule but its a fairly regular routine
He naps anywhere from 3-5x/day. We followed his lead for this schedule and now try to just stick to it. He is on the long and lean side, we have our 4 month appt tomorrow.