[NicaG]

With night wakings, how much sleep do you get each night (estimate)?

 

[Chloe'sMama]

I would say around 8 hours, but that is broken up by nursing around 4-10 times....

 

[NicaG]

I try to go to bed around 11, but then dd usually wakes up 2-3 times in the night for about 20 minutes each time. And then I'm up around 6:30. We don't cosleep but sometimes I bring dd into the bed first thing in the morning so I can snooze a few more minutes. I am starting to think I need more sleep...

 

[Funny Face]

I chose 6 hours but that's a rough guess. He is 4 months old and the longest he's ever slept was 3 hours. Usually he gets up about ever hour and a half and I have no idea how long I am actually awake each time.

I feel like I get NO sleep. I'm almost angry when I wake up lately I'm so sleep deprived.

It doesn't help that he's teething.

 

[~Charlie's~Angel~]

I have to be up by 530am at the latest, so if I go to bed at 10, like last night, I might get 7 hours of very broken sleep.

Weekends are a little better. DS2 tends to sleep better between the hours of 3 and 7. Not sure why?

 

[bezark]

DS is 2 weeks old, and I'm averaging about 5 hours of very broken sleep per night. He wakes up every hour or 2 to eat, and that usually keeps me up for an hour each time.
I get up for the day when I'm just tired of being woken up.

 

[Dreamy]

Oops, I voted 7 hours, but I think it's closer to 8.

I usually go to bed with my almost 12-month-old DS anywhere from 9-10PM (he sleeps next to me on the couch prior to this), he wakes up a few times during the night (I'd say I'm awake a total of 15 minutes if you add up these wakings, I latch him on and go back to sleep right away), and get up at 6AM.

 

[rightkindofme]

My daughter is happiest if we are in bed for 12 hours and that means I get as much or as little sleep as I make myself get. She wakes up periodically but I sleep through most of her nursing.

I'm honestly getting more sleep than I have ever consistently gotten in my life.

:

 

[Mal85]

I voted 6, that's rough average/estimation... I'd say we average 6-7 hours most nights... sometimes less, sometimes more on the weekends. I go to bed around 10 and on a good night am woken twice during the night to feed her. She doesn't usually eat more than twice before we get out of bed at 7-7:30, but sometimes doesn't go back to sleep after eating. Last night, she ate and laid back down at 10:30. She woke up at 2:30 to eat and went back to sleep, but woke again an hour later just to be awake. We were up until a little after 5 when she finally nursed back to sleep, then she slept until 7:45. That was a good-ish night.

 

[sapphire_chan]

I get so much sleep I end up with headaches sometimes.

 

[sapphire_chan]

Quote:

Originally Posted by rightkindofme I'm honestly getting more sleep than I have ever consistently gotten in my life. :

:
Well, aside from illness and the first trimester of pregnancy which happened, thank goodness, during my vacation.

 

[sapphire_chan]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bezark DS is 2 weeks old, and I'm averaging about 5 hours of very broken sleep per night. He wakes up every hour or 2 to eat, and that usually keeps me up for an hour each time. I get up for the day when I'm just tired of being woken up.

2 weeks was about when side-laying nursing really started to work for us. Now that it's warmer, try sleeping with out a shirt, it'll help.

 

[battymama]

double post

 

[battymama]

12 hours

: with maybe 3 or 4 wakings. i dont really know i sleep through most of them. i get about 4 hours with her in the side car before she comes in most nights.

 

[FondestBianca]

heres the weird thing about my sleep...

ds sleeps completely through the night without nursing. he goes to bed at the same time every night (10pm-10:30pm) and wakes generally around the 9th, 10th, or 11th hour of sleep to nurse for about 20 minutes to a half hour then goes back to sleep for another hour or two. So he gets about 12 hours of night time sleep with only one interuption for feeding. HOWEVER, somehow, I only manage about 6 hours. Unfortunatly, I require AT LEAST 8 solid hours to function at max... therefor I pretty much never function at max.

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[Liquesce]

I bring toys and cereal to feed/play with my daughter in bed all the while before she goes down for her first nap (usually about an hour after waking). I really can not take more consistent sleep deprivation for a while ... this system lets me stay in bed a good 10 hours or so, at least 8 of which is sleep.

 

[RGsMom]

I would love to be in even the 6 hour category! I'm getting about 4-5. If Noah decides to sleep longer in the morning, it seems RG is up earlier or vice versa... and no time for naps during the day with a toddler now!

 

[calpurnia]

i get about 4-5 broken hours at the moment. it sucks. i can't nap with her during the day because i am a month away from my finals & that's the only time i have to revise.

 

[fruitfulmomma]

I voted for 8. I try to be asleep by 10 and wake up around 7:00. I pretty much nurse in my sleep so any wake ups are only for a few minutes at a time.

 

[Megan73]

I voted for eight - but only because I make a real point of going to bed really, crazy early so I'm not exhausted.
I start nursing the babe down at 7, he's in his crib at the foot of our bed by 8, I'm in bed by 9 and we both get up about 5:30-6.
He wakes a few times in the night - although he must be the only baby in the world who doesn't seem that into night nursing (he will if I insist but it wakes him up

) and he's usually back to sleep with a quick cuddle.