BF babies and sleep

Out of curiosity guys, how long are your breastfed babies sleeping for at night? We're still on 2-3 hours here!

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I may get some hate for this but my little one who is 11 weeks old and is exclusively breastfed sleeps through the night but I purely think this is due to her being a terrible day time napper that she is shattered that she sleeps through. I’m fully expecting it all to change when the 4 month sleep regression hits.

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My baby is 10 weeks he has been fighting day naps last few days he will still wake up at least twice during the night to feed, last night he feel asleep at 19:40 and woke up at 12:30am to feed and then again at 4am.
Woke up for the day at 6am.
I BF and also try and pump when he’s asleep

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My boy is 8 weeks old and still wakes up every 2-3 hours in the night for a feed as well. It's exhausting 😫 I'm really hoping he sleeps longer stretches soon as I'm finding it hard to cope energy wise during the day

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She started doing 6hr (sometimes 7) for the first night stretch, then 3-4 hrs. This was after week 10

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We get a 5- 6 hour stretch at the start of the night but then it’s hourly after that. She hardly naps during the day though 🫠

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8 week old here, usually first stretch is 5-6 hours from 9/10pm to 3 ish then about 2-3 hours after that. She’s not a great napper during the day though, usually an hour or so at a time.
We recently transitioned to a sleeping bag though as she kept living the blanket off and waking herself up, I feel like this was a game changer although she was a decent sleeper at night before xx

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10 week old and past 2 nights is the first time I’ve had a 4 hour stretch then every 2/3 hours after that! It’s probably a fluke😅

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My 9 week old gave me my first 7 hour stretch last night and has slept 4-6 hours the last couple of nights; however, it seems he's finally just learning the difference between night and day because hes been cluster feeding all day instead and having longer wake periods.

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Interesting, so its seems like it really is all over the place.at this point!😂 those whose baby only nap for short times during the day, are they grumpy or does it not seem to do much mood wise?

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12 week old over here! Goes to bed around 7:30/8pm and sleeps until 3ish and then again until 7:30-8am. I on the other hand still seem to wake every 2 hours 🤣🤣

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My 9 week old has only recently started doing 3 hour stretches at night. I'm trying to up the feeds during the day, might try to shorten naps too

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10 week old here and she might do 4 hours on a random night , but mostly she does 2-3 hours

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9 weeks and maybe 4 hours in the night? the odd occasion maybe a bit longer but very rarely. luckily he will feed and go back to sleep fairly quick

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10 weeks and I’ll be honest I stopped looking at the clock cause I think it was making me realise how little sleep I was getting 🥲😂

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We're an average of 4-5 hours. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Our girl was increasing but her sleep went backwards after her vaccinations and we're slowly working back to where we were. Have you tried making bedtime later? Our baby sleeps best when she goes to bed between 9 and 10pm

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9 weeks old has been doing well for a while now. She would settle to sleep at about 9ish and only wake between 3-3:30 and then she started sleeping til 6-7. It's been pretty consistent but tonight she's still awake and seems fussy!

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My little girl will have her last feed anywhere between 10 & 11pm, she’ll then have anything from 4-6hr sleep in her next to me crib, But once she’s woken up getting her back down is tricky we can be up 2hrs. After her first feed the past couple of nights I’ve just kept her in bed with us and she seems to settle.

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12 weeks old and currently on 6-8 hours for the first stretch, then wakes for a feed, and then 1-2 hours for the second stretch!

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I’ve got the one that came with his travel system, but I’m fancying a new one — looking for something stylish but practical! I’d love to see what everyone else is using! 🤍

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My 16 month old is only waking twice a night but for both those time she is suckling on me for 40 minutes and then I can’t transfer her to the cot so I’m in there for nearly an hour and then have to end up getting my husband to come in when she’s asleep enough to pass her to him, within 10/15 minutes of being in there he gets her down

I know two wake ups isn’t bad but being in there for so long is killing me and then because I’m so awake after that it’s really hard to get back to sleep.

The only answer is to stop the nursing back to sleep but she cries so much I can’t handle it, a few minutes feels like a life time 😩 I feel so trapped and fed up this is so so hard. I can deal with multiple wakes if she goes back down easily but this is torture
I wouldn’t even mind co sleeping but our bed is way too high and our mattress is very soft so it’s not safe and whenever we’ve tried anyway she just gets wide awake and thinks it’s play time 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Anyone else’s little one just come alive at night time? I’m absolutely exhausted to the point I’m falling asleep during feeds. She sleeps most the day and then come evening she is wide awake, I don’t get her down until 1/2am every single night where she sleeps until 5:30am. From 6pm-1/2am it’s just constant feeds back to back and being very alert/fussy.

Any tips? Please tell me I’m not alone🤣🤣

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