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lilfatty 
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 11:32am |
When talking about sleeping through the night I have heard people on these forums say things like ....
or variations of the above statements
What Im confuddled about is ... I always thought Issy woke twice during the night (always twice like clockwork) because she is hungry (and she does drink milk when offered the boob) .. but do you try the above things first? Then if that doesnt work feed?
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 11:36am |
Good question, I want to know too!
I'm always to scared to try re-wrapping or giving the dummy back, because I know if I give her a quick feed she will go back to sleep pretty quick, and I can't be bothered with tantrums at that time of night  but I really want to know if it will work, because I've heard that after a while of doing it, they will stop waking at that time and sleep through?
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 11:38am |
Totally off subject ... but i love that new profile pic Janey
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 11:43am |
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hehe thanks
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 11:47am |
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Hrmmmm... at that early age I'd still probably feed through the night. I'm not sure what I'd consider the 'cut off' point but I think a 2month old isn't exactly waking for fun!
Although you could try resettling before feeding - totally up to you!
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 11:47am |
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Oops - 3 months!
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 11:57am |
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Kylah only just started sleeping through at 3 months, Shell in our August mums thread, wrote out a paraghraph of a book she was ready and it went something along the lines of "if your baby is over 10lb then they can sleep through or something like that, and instead of trying a feed first try the dummy first'
I dont that the first night, she went back to sleep and woke in the morning, the 2nd night she slept through and has ever since. Apart from the odd bad day..
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 12:05pm |
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lilfatty, Lauren started sleeping through from 8 weeks and this is how I got her to sleep through on advice from Plunket I might add! When she woke I would offer the dummy first, then she would resettled and went back to sleep straight away. If she woke within an hour of the resettling I would feed her then pop her back to bed, as obviously that indicated to me she may have woken from hunger.
Each night I stretched her out an extra hour longer ie: if she woke at 1am, I would resettler her, then she may wake at 2am, so I would feed her. I would do this for a couple of nights and then hopefully she will automatically stretch herself to 2am, then resettle her, she may then wake at 3am, so then feed and so on. Do you know what I am trying to say, its a bit hard to explain!
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 12:07pm |
Makes sense, peachy... Chloe wakes at around 4 or 5am now, so maybe if I pop the dummy back in then she will sleep til a more decent hour 
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 12:07pm |
 peachy wrote:
lilfatty,. Do you know what I am trying to say, its a bit hard to explain! |
Yes makes perfect sense
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 12:12pm |
Oh thats good, hope it helps you both!
Oh and when I say she was sleeping through by 8 weeks, she was sleeping 9pm till 5am. Now she sleeps 6:30pm till around 5 or 6am, except when she teething 
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 12:53pm |
Sleeping thru is a total myth in our household  (I live in hope.................
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 12:56pm |
Hmmm that's interesting.
Hannah woke at 1:20 this morning and I couldn't be fagged feeding her (which I feel TERRIBLE now that I think about it), so I re-wrapped her and put her dummy in. ONLY because she normally sleeps through until 4/5. And if I DO feed her at 1:30/2 (as I have done in the past, without even realising she may be awake be cause something other than hunger woke her) she STILL wakes at 4/5 for a feed. So, after last night, I would recommend trying to re-settle.
I like peachy's advice 
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 1:21pm |
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We dreamfeed at 10.30, and Jack sleeps through till about 7.30-8ish. I have heard him a couple of times but just wait for him to stop talking and go back to sleep. He did start waking for feeds a couple of weeks ago and now has to have 2 feeds of baby rice a day to get him to sleep at night (hungry boy!) and unless he's having a really bad day with teething, he sleeps through.
Do you have the baby in your room? Is she actually crying or just making noises? Cos you know that if she's just making noises it could be part of her active sleep cycle? They have active and inactive parts. We had to move Jack out at 6 weeks as he makes so much noise when sleeping I thought I needed to feed him constantly but he was just dreaming or talking to his 'friends'
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 1:29pm |
Issy is in our room but I only get up if she cries as she i a noisy sleeper
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 1:43pm |
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When Hannah was about 9 weeks old she was only feeding once in the night and she was beginning to only have a tiny feed at 7am. So I figured she obviously didnt NEED her middle of the night feed and gave her some water first - she soon stopped waking for the water and began having a proper feed at a more sociable hour.
Greer is 10 weeks now and quite a bit smaller than Hannah was, and putting on weight a lot slower so I'm not pushing it yet. I get her up for a quick feed when I go to bed, then she wakes about 3am then 7am. She is starting to take smaller feeds at 7 so may try either water or Peachey's idea, but at the moment its so easy and quick just to feed and straight back to sleep, rather than getting up a few times to resettle!
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 2:35pm |
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I stopped night feeding at about 10 weeks she would sleep right through on and off from 6 weeks but after she was 10 weeks we got really tough and didnt offer milk unless we could see she was obviously hungry which wasnt often. I would pick her up, change her nappy, re-wrap and put her back in bed just rocking the bassinet a bit. After a few times doing that she was fine and hasnt woken for feeds since. Sometimes I woulod just let her grizzle a bit and she would just doze off. We have had a particularly easy baby I guess but plunket told me I needed to get it sorted while she was very young because the habit is harder to break the older they get and I guess it worked
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 2:45pm |
sparkle wrote:
Sleeping thru is a total myth in our household (I live in hope................. |
yip we're the same....sleeping through whats that????
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 2:47pm |
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me personaly at 2 mths i would prob feed them, when they got a bit older perhaps then i would try the resettling thing first... or try to resettle only if the time they awoke wasnt when they normally would or an hour or so after a feed so i would know it was due to something else.
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Posted: 23 April 2008 at 2:50pm |
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I agree. For us resettling was easier, because if we fed her she would take ages to bring up wind and AGGGGES 2 go back to sleep but just by changing rewrapping and putting back in bed the process was only about 10mins tops. Do what works but yeah 2 months is young
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