Sleep schedule - how can we improve?
Hi mums, my LO is 7 weeks old. We’re finding night time wakes exhausting. This is our first so we don’t know what’s considered “good” in terms of nighttime sleep.
Between 10pm to 6am we have around three nighttime wakes where he’s up for around 30 mins to an hour. His longest sleep stretch is from when he goes down which is 3 hrs, and then he’s waking every 2.5 hours after that. Any advice on how we can lengthen the 2.5 hours? I’m hoping to get him to the 4/5 hour mark. He’s been in this pattern for the last three weeks and it’s not improving.
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Unfortunately this is very normal, it can take months, sometimes years for babies to establish a full sleeping routine.
Best advice I can give is attempt a bedtime routine: bath, book, cuddles, milk, whatever works best for you.
There’s no guarantee it will work, there’s something about baby biology that keeps them waking up, and constant wake ups can also help reduce the risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). But I completely understand that you’re exhausted, but you got this ❤️
Hey this is unfortunately fairly normal and quite good to go three hour stretches. My daughter was the same, all I can say is it does get easier we found around 12 weeks she dropped one of her wake sup to then have two night ones wakes up then by the time she hit nine months we had sometimes none. They’re learning the skill of sleep and aren’t able to connect their sleep cycles like we can yet xx
This is very good sleep for their age. My first son didn’t sleep through until he was 2 and woke 1-2 hourly until then for perspective. My 9 week old averages 5 wakes a night between 10 and 7.
Frequent waking is protective of SIDS and is biologically normal albeit hard when you’re used to full nights x
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