When did your baby sleep through?
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Topic: When did your baby sleep through?
Posted By: busymum
Subject: When did your baby sleep through?
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 7:28pm
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and did you do anything to assist the change? -------------  |
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 8:11pm
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James started sleeping through around 8wks, we didn't do anything to try and get him to sleep through. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 8:16pm
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Maya slept thru from 7 weeks, I did nothing other than give her the dream feed that Plunket suggested, she was just a good sleeper from the start.
The gremlins went from waking every 2 hours screaming to very suddenly sleeping thru at (I think) about 3 1/2 months. Was right after we got all of their health issues sorted. The only thing I did differently was put an extra scoop of formula in their dream feed, but I don't think it was that that made the difference coz I made up the extra 30ml of water over their daytime bottles, and when I stopped adding an extra scoop to that feed a few weeks later they still slept thru. ------------- 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: daikini
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 8:30pm
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Kiya was "taught" to sleep through at 6mths by the nurses at MotherCraft (she'd been doing it on and off from 6 weeks, but then we developed the bad habit of her sleeping in my bed on me)
Josiah started sleeping through at 15mths, I started offering him cold water instead of a warm bottle of milk at 3am when he began mucking around at that feed (so didn't need it anymore) and he decided that wasn't worth waking for. Xavier isn't sleeping through yet, he's feeding at least twice a night. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 8:33pm
Jake still wakes once, at least, and charl can go all night, but usually wakes once (after dream feed) but last night it was 3 times!!!!!!! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 8:37pm
Annie, you need to train Jake like I (without intending to) trained Josiah! From the moment Xavier was born, Nat started waking up to Josiah and I stopped. Now, the few times Josiah does get up in the night, he goes around to Daddy's side of the bed! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
fattartsrock wrote:Posted By: Redbedrock
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 8:41pm
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Still waiting, oh no we had a full night's sleep in May but she had a kidney infection and had been up screaming all night the previous 4 nights, she was as knackered as we were. ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 8:57pm
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Rhiannon has been sleep through since about 8wks....only wakes if she is in pain (teething) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 9:29pm
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Andrew was about 6 weeks and Josh was about a month. Did nothing for Andrew as he was on formula, but Josh we give hima bottle of EBM and I think that helps. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: shelleybean
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 9:55pm
Lily has been a super duper sleeper and slept right through at 4 1/2 weeks, and now she sleeps 12 hours a night, she is a dream child and loves her sleep like her Mummy.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 10:03pm
| Ashlee started sleeping through at about 9 weeks. We just stopped waking her for her 10pm bottle as it was getting harder and harder to wake her for it and she hasn't woken up in the night for a bottle since! Her nighttime routine was well established by that stage and I think that played a huge part in her sleeping through. |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 10:08pm
Hannah and Briona both were waking once at 6mos and didn't stop that until they were weaned at 11mos  Krystiana was sleeping through at 6-8 weeks but hasn't done it once since 3 1/2 mos, just before we introduced solids. She usually still wakes twice a night, although one of those is after 5am so not tooooo bad. I just wish she'd sleep through again! and wonder if she's getting enough solids? ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 10:38pm
| I can only remember that we were still doing a dreamfeed around 9:30/10pm when Erin was about 4months, don't think we dropped it for another couple months, but for all intents and purposes she has slept through since maybe 8 wks?? |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 10:39pm
I'm not too gung-ho strict on our 'routine' but Erin really seemed to thrive on having things relatively organised, was just thinking about what we may have done to 'assist' her sleeping through... but brain is too fuzzy 
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Posted By: AndysMummy
Date Posted: 26 June 2007 at 10:49pm
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I'm still waiting for the 18 hours sleep that all the books I read during pregnancy promised me!
Remember that in all the sleep studies etc 5 hours is considered sleeping though the night! (No to me it isn't!) We haven't even got to that yet!  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 1:45am
I didn't know that! Gina sleeps for 5 hour stretches no probs but does wake up once. It's because she normally goes down at around 8-9pm so ends up waking up at around 1-2am for a feed and then sleeps again thru to the morning. I don't actaully mind it as I need to get up anyways - boobs hurt too much from the milk (but refuse to leak it out on their own! )------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 9:33am
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I consider 8 hours to be sleeping through the night... or at least it is for me
Laura do you think co-sleeping keeps Andy awake more often in the night? Just a thought, I've never done the co-sleeping thing. ------------- |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 9:41am
| Isla has just started sleeping 8 hrs without waking in the last 2 weeks, probably about 50% of the time. She still wakes for a feed around 10-10.30pm, then sleeps til 6.30-7am. |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 10:00am
I firmly believe that "sleeping through" is something people are very vague about when they say their baby does it (no offense to you ladies  )
I'm pretty sure (my lack of memory is a beautiful thing here) that Hannah slept through when she was about 6 weeks old. I know for a fact that this didn't continue (though did go on and off) - the whole non-sleep thing peaked when she was about 2 years old when she would wake up about 5 times a night!!! ARGH!! Anyway, just wanted to say take "sleeping through" in the loosest of terms... it's the only way you stay sane if you have a "normal" sleeper! 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 10:54am
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We didn't do a dreamfeed when Elle was younger as she'd wake fully and then be restless for the rest of the night. At 3mths she'd sleep 7pm to 1am then to 5am then to 7am. Then at 4mths she did 7pm to 3am to 6.30am. At about 5mths she did 7pm to 5am to 7am. Then she started going backwards and waking anywhere between 1 and 4.
At 7.5 mths we introduced a dreamfeed. She was still breastfed but if I picked her up she woke so I did the dreamfeed with a bottle and simply propped her up in bed. She slept through from that point. I droped the dreamfeed 2 weeks later and she has slept through every night since. I personally think sleeping through is a rhythym and some babies take longer than others to learn it. In our case, the dreamfeed ensured she was full enough to transition throgh the light sleep phases during the early hours without waking. Once her body was in the rhythm of it the dreamfeed was no longer needed. (Edited as should've typed didn't rather than did in the first sentence! Whoops) That is what worked for us but all babies are different. HTH ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Millie1976
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 11:38am
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From memory I think Ollie started sleeping through from around 10 weeks of age. He had times when he would wake maybe once for a feed but that stopped ages ago. Not sure what it is going to be like when he gets his teeth though - not looking forward to that! ------------- Sebastien 2 years old Olivier 3 3/4 years old |
Posted By: emmaohara
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 2:17pm
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Ben didn't sleep through until he was about 9 1/2 months old, he would wake 3-4 times a night and then suddenly we moved him into a new room and he slept 12 hours, what the!!.
However he usually wakes up now once a night for a cuddle and goes back to sleep, can't blame him really I like my cuddles too!! and if theres teething , sickness etc...... all babies are different though but I heard when they go to school they are usually so knackered that they crash and burn , so I'll hang in there for that!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 4:23pm
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Jake and Taine slept for the first time at about 3 weeks each. i remember waking up and going "OMG he's died" and freaking out and poking.'..baby screamed.
Anyway, both started sleeping more regulary through the night from 6 months. at about 1 year started to wake up again, but both are fine now..(touch wood) |
Posted By: Kelpa
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 8:14pm
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Paige slept through the night from 6 weeks.....From 7 - 6. Blake however had to go to Naughty Babies school to sort him out and has been sleeping solidly at night since just before 9 months. Prior to that has was waking a couple of times for feeds...(which I learnt he soooooo did not need and was just a nice bad habit "Mummy" had encouraged him to develop)...
P.s...I read today from my Notes from Mothercraft Unit that for babies under 6 months...sleeping through the night is classed as a 5-6 hour stretch! Babies from 6 months who are having three solids a day and between 600 to 800ml of milk are capable of sleeping 12 hours solid!! And that if they are waking it is generally a "habit". Interesting aye! -------------  
 
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Posted By: Kelpa
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 8:26pm
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Oh and forgot to put all this...Very much a routine and works well for us. Paige was very similar however she just kind of got into this it herself.
MCU nurses increased Blakes solids to "heaps" (twice as much as I was giving him)..Reduced his b/feeds to 3 feeds a day given after his solids & finger foods and all done and dusted within an hour. He was not given afternoon or morning tea either as this can make them not eat their "important filling" solids. I offer him water during feeds and sleeps. They made sure he was having 2-2 1/2 hours up then straight back down. He is never up longer than 3 hours before getting put back down(so two sleeps a day - still having those). Oh and they let him wake and SELF SETTLE in the night for the first two nights..third night he just slept like a dream YAY (I WOKE UP) While I was there there were 4 other older babies who were all pretty much having the same issues..they were all sleeping through the night by the end of the week and giving their Mums at least 3 hours break during the day!!! -------------
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Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 28 June 2007 at 7:14pm
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Ashlyn was going for bout9-11 hrs at bout 1 1/2 weeks
Anastasia still wakes 4/7 nights a week for a bottle ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |
Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 28 June 2007 at 10:12pm
Mine started sleeping through (10 - 12 hours) at about four months old. Then she stopped at six months (those two months of good sleep were bliss!) and it isn't until recently (she's now over nine months) that she's started sleeping through again. The first time we didn't do anything, just assumed she'd do it when she was ready. This time, because we knew she could do it, we let her go for a while but when she started waking five or six times a night  I did a dream feed at 10pm and instituted more of a routine in her day (never had one before, and it had worked for us until now) after about a week of that she seemed to settle a bit and has slept through for the past four nights. Fingers crossed it continues for a wee while! I fully expect her to start waking again though, following advice from other friends with kids.
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 28 June 2007 at 10:35pm
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Gabriella started 8 hours at 8 weeks...and has been doing 10 - 12 hours sleeps no wake ups for a month plus now....except for two night when we think she woke due to temp in room...last night she slept 12.5 hours from 6 30pm....she has adjusted her bedtime to that...
we just took note of the tired signs, and also found altho she doesnt like to swaddle she does like to be warm and also loves a bath before bed at least 3-4 times a week....I do however get very little sleep from her during the day - but im prepared to take that for a 12 hour night sleeper!!! |
Posted By: LockieandLiam
Date Posted: 29 June 2007 at 7:54pm
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It took my little man 9 1/2 months to sleep through, he had done it once or twice before that around the 6 months mark. Very strange how it all happened though. We went away to Wellington for Christmas and we were sleeping in the same room as him and he decided that 12 or 1am was a great time to wake for a feed instead of the the 4am we were getting at home. Well anyway the night we got home he woke again at that time and hubby went in gave him a cuddle and back to sleep he went and ever since then he has slept through. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 3:32pm
| I'm still waiting. Jack might go a week of sleeping thru but then goes back to waking. He never slept thru at all until about 9 months. I'm hoping Caprece it better. |
Posted By: Spudling
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 5:29pm
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Cailin was about 6 weeks old and Jeremy has had more 7 hours plus night sleeps than not for the past 2 or so weeks (he's 7 weeks old) and last night he slept from 10pm until 7am ..WAHHHHHHOOOOOOO
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 6:37pm
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I'm still waiting too!! If you consider sleeping through dropping the dream feed then I think we did that around 6 months or so. But we are usually having to resettle a couple of times before we go to bed and then once we go to bed we normally need to get up at least once. More if she is sick or teething. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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