night sleep

Both of mine still don't consistently. They started sleeping a LOT better once they hit 8 months tho.

Sorry probably not what you wanted to hear.

Daniel went through stages of sleeping through and not all the way up until about 6 months then he started getting through until 4am, but that was for a short feed then back in bed within 10 mins.

Can your DH help you out over the weekends or anything. Like he do one night of getting up for the feeds so you can get a solid nights sleep?

Or try cluster feeding in the evening. We did this with Daniel for a time, bottle at 6pm, bed 6:30pm, dream feed bottle at 8:30ish then another at 10:30ish. Helped him sleep a bit longer.

i know they regress sometimes..:( he as doing 6-7 hours for a while...

kebakat- yes but like lat weekend,...firstly no matter how loud Ethan is he never wakes DH so i have to wake up.. then oftne DH goes back to sleep..or ihave to force him to get up..soI'm awake.. then i can hear Ethan making nay noise..adn DH doesnt go into him unless he's really crying which is fine during the day but keeps me awake during the night..so i end up being more exhausted:( he did the 1230am feed one night and the 230 the next and then said ' i walked past you sleeping and thought hpmf she had 1.5 hours sleep more than me...' then he said to me 'i know how you feel when I'm asleep and you are feeding..it's tiring'..lol from doing one bottle two nights in a row...lol:) but i did appreciate him trying to help...

as as far as dram feeding i tried it once and he vomited everywhere at 4am too scared to try again..atm he is asleep by 730 then up anytime between 1030-2 then up at least once more...sometimes i have to ge tup twice to put dummy back in too..

rachandjack i dont mind...i know it might be a while.. i just want another baby not too far away but he's gotta be sleeping ALOT better before that!

PS I must agree with you 5 hours is hardly what I would call sleeping through the night either!!

thats what plunket call sleeping through the night..and maybe if it started at 1pm that would be fine but E's always starts at 730pm:) ..maybe its time for a routine..i was just reading on the sleep store website about dummies..i really dont want to get rid of it due to the SIDS thing though..

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Lol yeah I agree, 5 hours is so not sleeping through the night!!

Man I feel for you with the DH not waking up thing. What if he slept in Ethan's room on a mattress, shut the door, and had the monitor in there with him too (right next to his ear lol) and you slept in your lovely bed with the door shut.

arohanui I've just started sleeping back in there but even with all that (and theres no room for a mattress and heater..I'd still hear it..lol:) hehe but i will suggest it..Ethan has been crying in his ear and another time hes had the monitor loudest setting in his ear an not woken up:) he says he will if he needs to but apart form the first time he hasnt..
kebakat that might work..though when hes alseep is another story we are both awful wakers from sleep:) i want to wean him but i dont he is FF and his Dad smokes so its one of the few things going good from him in the prevention of SIDS!

Jack has never slept through the night, a few times he has slept about 6hrs but I could count those times on 1 hand! Although he seems to have been teething forever and he never sleeps well then! I think that I have just some how learnt to function with only 6hrs of broken sleep. My DH often doesn't wake when Jack does which generally doesn't bother me, he has to work and I have only ever bf Jack (no expressing) so DH often couldn't do anything anyway

PS. The best solution I found to exhaustion was napping during the day when they slept. I've never been very good at it, but when I had the gremlins I had to learn!

linzy- you co-sleep though dont you?

maya-yeah i think i better learn to do it too.. yes the dummy thing drives me mental. ! how did they go from screaming to not...dream feed?i may try it again it just after that first time!