Slept Through the Night!

[Baby_Cakes]

Last night we had a breakthrough! Nora technically slept through the night! She slept from 1 am-9:30 am! She's been sleeping from 1-6 or so for the past week, but usually woke up to eat at 6. Today, she did not! She slept right through!

Anybody else's babies hit this milestone yet? Nora's 8 weeks old! I thought this wouldn't happen for awhile and I just hope it keeps up! :

[mamanurse]

That's awesome Carrie! We are still far from that, but I'm so happy for you both. Dd1 started sleeping stretches like that around the same time. A bunch of Debbie Downers said it wouldn't last, but they were wrong. She was sleeping 12 hour stretches by 3 months and it never stopped.

[Fly Girl]

Madeline has been sleeping from about 10:30pm to 6:30am for the last 2 weeks. Yay for sleeping through the night!

[Amber Lion]

Ha, I'm sitting here completely stoked b/c she slept from 10:30 to 3:00! Yeah for you... I hope we're moving in that direction!

[Baby_Cakes]

Maegen, I want your LO's schedule. I'd rather go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6 than keep staying up till 1 am!

[TaraRae82]

That's fantastic that you had such a great night! :

Ally sleeps really well once she gets to sleep. She'll sleep from 11-3 or sometimes 5. And even then, since we cosleep, I can feel her stir and just give her a breast and she never really wakes up...just suckles herself back to sleep. She does nurse a lot after the 5am hour but again, she suckles herself back to sleep when we nurse side-lying. She slept until 11:30am yesterday!

[jlbaby]

carrie, that's awesome! i hope she keeps it up too! (DS didn't sleep through the night until very close to his 2nd bday - i hope you have a good sleeper on your hands!)

DD has slept 7:30p-2a as her longest stretch - it was awesome. she still wakes about every 3 hours, but cosleeping affords me SO much more sleep than if we didn't. whew.

[Faerieshadow]

Awesome!! I am jealous. Elina will sleep 2 full hours between nursing, and that's pretty much the most I've gotten from her.

[Changed]

We're getting farther stretches all the time now. Last night was 8, 12, 4 and 6. Congrats to you though Carrie! Sleep makes everything easier to deal with.

[Fly Girl]

Originally Posted by Baby_Cakes

Maegen, I want your LO's schedule. I'd rather go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6 than keep staying up till 1 am!

Yeah, I don't know how or why but one night she went to sleep at 10pm and didn't wake up until 6am. It freaked me out a little the first night but she's kept it up since then. And I of course am loving it.

[neveryoumindthere]

HOW?
Please someone tell me your routine or whatever..ds is waking every 1-2 hours and still he's unhappy

[TaraRae82]

nak

neveryoumindthere, i don't think there's a right or wrong way to get your lo to sleep all night. i think some babies just do and others just don't. i have heard several recommendations for a book called, the happiest baby on the block. don't know if it would help but it sounds like it applies to this problem. gl and i hope things improve.

[Baby_Cakes]

Yeah, I didn't actually do anything. This is really new for us. I'm still thinking she's going to be up till 3 and wake every hour tonight like she used to.

The only thing we actively do is try to keep her awake or only let her sleep for 15 minutes at a time after 7 or 8 pm (depending on when she napped last). This way I can nurse her down at 10:30 or 11 and hope she sleeps. It hasn't happened yet. She still stays up till 1 regardless. We're going to try to move her downtime up a bit, b/c staying up till 1 is tough.

[mamanurse]

Originally Posted by TaraRae82

nak

neveryoumindthere, i don't think there's a right or wrong way to get your lo to sleep all night. i think some babies just do and others just don't. i have heard several recommendations for a book called, the happiest baby on the block. don't know if it would help but it sounds like it applies to this problem. gl and i hope things improve.

We love that book and mix in its principles with our other ways. The 5 s's are key imo.

[Fly Girl]

I've heard another good book is The No Cry Sleep Solution although its not really supposed to be for infants. I haven't read it though so I'm not sure of its philosophy. I am feeding her every 2-3 hours during the day, whenever she is hungry and then we have an awake period and then she naps for awhile. We do this all day long until around 10pm when she nurses, then I change her diaper and rock her for a little until she is falling asleep and I put her in her co-sleeper and she goes down for the night.

She's always been a good sleeper though. We had to wake her up at night the first week to nurse. At our first visit at the pediatrician's office she had regained her birth weight and so she said we could just let her sleep as long as she wants during the night and she immediately started sleeping 4-5 hours at a time. So I don't really think its anything that we are doing. She started sleeping 7-8 hours after a day of marathon nursing which I think was her 6 week growth spurt.

[janasmama]

Annie has been a good sleeper. I don't know when she wakes up b/c I don't keep a clock in the room. I did that with my first two and it was torture. I know she wakes up 2 times and one of the times is around 5am which she usually takes awhile to get back to sleep but she isn't really fussy or anything, just awake.

[Cindy-Lou]

DD usually sleeps for 5-6 hours straight at night, somewhere between 10pm-5am. I still have to get up with DS though, who gets up between 6-6:30am. DS was sleeping long stretches like that at that age and then at 6 months, he started waking up to nurse every 2-3 hours. He was 20 months when he finally stopped waking up during the night.

[jlbaby]

Originally Posted by neveryoumindthere

HOW?
Please someone tell me your routine or whatever..ds is waking every 1-2 hours and still he's unhappy

this sounds like my DS as an infant. what is your sleeping routine? i tried for 3 months to put him down in the pack 'n play next to me, and he would wake constantly. i didn't discover co-sleeping until he was 3 months old, as i was about to head back to work (and completely exhausted). it finally afforded us much needed sleep, but DS continued to be wakeful even while co-sleeping for 2+ years. he was just a horrible sleeper. i sure hope things turn around for your LO.

i read NCSS and liked it - thought it had some really good tips. i do want to get harvey karp's "happiest baby on the block", a friend of mine got great info for her fussy baby. it also has a ton of positive reviews on Amazon.

[mommysaurus]

That's awesome! G man was sleeping from 9 ish p.m. to 1 ish, then waking every 2 hrs. This weekend he would wake at 1ish and I'd scoot close to latch him on but he would just fall back to sleep without nursing. He'd wake again at 3 ish and do the same thing. He finally woke to latch at 5 ish. I dont mind that he is sleeping but I really dont want AF to return....argh! My 4th baby was sleeping 5hrs at 2 weeks old and AF came back at 8 weeks....ugh! My babies after that AF came back at 9/10 months and they didnt go more than 2 hrs at night.

[audsma]

I thought DS was waking every 2-3 hours, but then I realized it was at least 4.5 hrs between feeds. Last night he only ate once, so once we can get a dipe to last, we'll really be all nighters instead of being the medical def. of thru the nite of 5 hrs.