night sleep
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Topic: night sleep
Posted By: ElfsMum
Subject: night sleep
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 2:20pm
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when did your little one sleep through the night..by sleep through non e of this 'plunket says 5 hours' crap:) I mean 8 hours... I'm getting really really really exhausted so just wondered when there is hope..i know they are all different i just wondered in general.. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 2:42pm
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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. |
Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 2:45pm
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Harry did it at about 12 weeks old I think.. or maybe like 14 weeks? I can't remember. And slept between 8 and 13 hours a night. But as you know, now he's not anymore lol. So even when they start doing it unfortunately doesn't mean it's going to last!! ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 2:50pm
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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. |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 2:55pm
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both my boys slept thru from about 4 mths...but toby went back to night waking a month or two after and still wakes in the night occasionally. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 3:21pm
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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! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: lucky3rdtime
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 3:55pm
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Hey foxxxy in the weekend I do the middle of the night feed and then DH does the first one in the morning, Gabs only tends to wake once during the night, so if she goes down at 10.30pm I will feed her when she wakes (which is anytime between about 2.30 and 5am) and then DH will do the next feed (between 6.30am and 10am), that way we both get reasonable amounts of sleep in the weekend, do you think that could work for you.
I can go back to sleep if Gabs wakes me up though, I don't find that a problem and having the knowledge that DH is getting up for the morning feed I seem to manage not to hear her in the morning in the weekends. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: lucky3rdtime
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 3:56pm
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PS I must agree with you 5 hours is hardly what I would call sleeping through the night either!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 4:02pm
yeah i wish:) he is a very deep sleeper..i used to be too..:) and even if he has the monitor at other end of the house i still hear him(and wake up and get to him way before DH even stirs,he says he will wake up but he doesnt)..and i try to go back to sleep but then when he puts him back he lets him grizzle to sleep(which i dont do at night) and it keeps me awake:( i can go back to sleep easily enough most of the time..but i guess i feel guilty too as he's so tired the next day..stupid me i should feel guilty..i would prefer he does middle of the night as Ethan tends to wake sortof 1230 and 4 ish or 2 and 6.. so what am i saying./.maybe that i need to teach DH to wake up :) and stop looking so tired when he does do a feed..:) DH also thinks he should have a sleep in which is fine but doesnt seem keen on one day sleeping in for each of us..as i said i think the main problem is i dont feel rested as im getting up replacing dummy or waking up DH ..if he could just hear him adn get up that would be great:)! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
lucky3rdtime wrote:Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 4:04pm
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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.. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 4:08pm
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maybe i should book in with the family centre.. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 4:19pm
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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.  ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 4:39pm
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If you are having to get up in the middle of the night to replace his dummy, perhaps you should try weaning him from it so at least that's one thing you don't have to deal with.
DH didn't always wake to Daniel either but I made a deal with him that on the night he was taking over from me, if he didn't get up immediately I was allowed to give him a kick so he knew to get up and make a bottle. |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 5:27pm
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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! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 7:47pm
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Once I got serious about T learning to self settle he started consistently sleeping through the night from 11 weeks. the self settling thing seems to be the key, he has a snuggly thing (kaloo rabbit) and if he wakes I think he just sucks that and goes back to sleep. He has woken a couple of times when sick but other than that is still sleeping through ffrom 7-7. does he sleep well during the day? I am a big believer in day time and a night time bed routine ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 8:26pm
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------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 8:34pm
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Maya was 7 weeks, the gremlins were 15 weeks, but with them, they went from waking and screaming for hours during the night to suddenly sleeping from 10.30pm till 7am.
I swore by dream feeds with all of my girls, and probably will with this one too altho I know some people have found they don't work for some babies. I found the dummy more nuisance than good, one night I got up 20+ times in one hour to put them back in so I gave up. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 8:35pm
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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! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 9:49pm
he's always been a good sleeper...well mostly.. though he sleeps no better at night if he has good day sleeps than if he doesnt.. i want to start routine:) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 9:51pm
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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! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: Rackhell
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 10:26pm
Cath slept through from 5 months, (she's just over 9 months now), from 6-7 to 6-7. Mind you she's only just got her first tooth today and it could all go pear shaped  in the next couple of days.
I BF (didn't do EBM) so DH never had to get up at night, I should have done that and a formula feed much sooner. Caths daytime sleep is a bit strange. Wakes at 6ish, goes down at 10ish, wakes 2 hours later (without fail), awake until 6ish. Crashes for night. Won't go to sleep during afternoon no matter how much we try. |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 8:43am
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Spencer slept through for the first time just after 4 months, by sleeping through I mean about 7pm -5am.
Then at 5 months he started waking twice a night again, that went on for a week or two and then he started sleeping 7pm-6am and slowly over the months it became more like 7pm-7.30am. Now he is waking at night again normally around 3am, dunno what it is all about, he was ill so his routine got messed up and then another tooth came through and the last couple of days his checks have been on fire but he isn't grizzly with it and goes to bed just fine. So basically I dunno, If you had asked three weeks ago I would have said he has been sleeping through fine for months but now its a different story. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 8:48am
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Hannah was 10 weeks and never woke in the night again unless she was cold or sick etc which was very rarely.
Last week Greer slept 13 hours, then had jabs the next day and I think hit her 12 week growth spurt and was feeding every few hours again. But last night she did 7pm til 6.30am with a quick dream feed at 10. So 8.5 hours. She is 12 weeks now. Hopefully she continues with that! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 8:49am
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*sigh* sounds nice aimee:) he did 7-10.30 , 11-430 and 5-730 last night. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 8:52am
Thats similar to how things have been here. I was waking her about 10pm, then she would wake between 2 and 4, then about 6.30 for the day. At least she was up and down again within 10 mins so not too disruptive. But we have had Hannah up in the night a bit as well and she takes way longer to get back to sleep - getting disturbed by Greer and a bit off colour herself.  ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 8:54am
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at least DH has agreed to do one whole weekend night so that's something:) even if its fortnightly(due to bowls etc) that would be great..! yeah feeding doesnt take long but sometimes he needs dummy replacement..(though not last night) does Greer have one.. ohh they talking about babies and daytime and influence on nighttime on breakfast in a minute:) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 8:56am
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stupid thing says I'm spamming!!!
i left him 10 mins that time..when i went to replace dummy(hes been grizzling whole time) he laughed at me:( ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 8:59am
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*listens carefully to baby whisperer* he sleeps great during the day so boooo to her! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 11:19am
No we have never co-slept in the real sense. At one stage though Jack seemed to wake every hour or so, so he often slept most of the night in our bed as it was easier for me and I didn't seem to get so tired as I didn't really wake up fully each time. Since Jack started crawling I stopped completely as I was worried about leaving him in our bed in the morning if I woke before him. Just recently he has been waking anywhere from 4am-5.30am and takes ages to go back to sleep so I have brought him into our bed a bit recently. I think alot of Jack's waking in the night is related to his teething. He got his first tooth at 5mths and he is now cutting 4 teeth to take his total up to 14 teeth. He doesn't cry with it, just doesn't want to sleep, just wants to cuddle. Plus he seems to have alot of wind, although this is reducing, which I think also relates to his teething. I am dying for a full nights sleep and the silly thing is we are talking about TTC #2 early next year so even once I start getting a full night's sleep it likely won't last long! ------------- Lindsey
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 07 May 2008 at 3:34pm
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lol good luck yes we are talking bout ttcing in jan..but we will see how it goes by then.. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |