Sleeping advice/suggestions
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Topic: Sleeping advice/suggestions
Posted By: yummymummy
Subject: Sleeping advice/suggestions
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 6:30pm
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For a few weeks now, Emma has been extending her night sleep to the point where she's sleeping around 8-9 hours in 1 stretch! Yey!
The problem is, she goes down for her long sleep at around 7pm so ends up waking up at around 3am - hungry 
I have tried giving her a dream feed at around 10pm to get her sleeping thru but she refuses to drink and still wakes up at around 3am. I have also tried waking her up properly and feeding her, but she still refuses to eat
Has anyone had this problem before? Any ideas/suggestions how I can move her long sleep to be from 10pm? Or should I just let her be - would she get to the point where she's sleeping 12 hours from 6pm to 6am? TIA ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 6:37pm
| If shes hungry I'd just leave it as be and see if she extends it by herself. That's a pretty impressive stretch really for her! |
Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 7:48pm
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Yeah we had the same problem ... we did manage to dream feed her (and she slept through).
One night we didnt just to see if it made any difference and she just slept through anyway. So I think sleeping through "comes" to different bubs at different times. Issy has slept from 7pm till 5.30 - 6.30 am since about 4 months of age. ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: pekemoemum
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 7:50pm
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hugs.. but then as one of the others said, she could go through till say 4/5 and then want to be 'up' for the day... I would go with that feed for now you can always try the dreamfeed again at other times in case it 'works'??
I remember those wakeful nights... it's exhuasting eh!!! ------------- Gina, Reef 15/6/03, Tyde 12/2/07 http://www.pekemoe.co.nz - Peke Moe - Unique NZ Made Baby Sleeping bags for babies who get out of swaddle/wrap |
Posted By: LockieandLiam
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 8:57pm
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I'd just go with it for now. We seem to be getting through until 4am these days from 7pm, then he will do another 2 - 2 1/2 hours (thank goodness). It will happen in time its just a case of playing the waiting game. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 12:15am
Thanks ladies. I'll let her do as she wants and see what happens. I'm kind of used to the waking up now and tend to wake up around 2-3am anyways as I know that's when she wakes up too  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 8:23am
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When Harry was doing that, we kept his sleep at 7pmish as a 'nap', so treated it as a daytime sleep still. Then when he woke (or we would make noise outside his room), he'd have a bit of awake time then the bedtime routine - bath/shower, into pjs, feed, bed for the night. We found it worked well for us ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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