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How long does your baby sleep?

My little one still wakes up every 2-4 hours throughout the night to eat! I keep hearing about these moms who’s babies sleep 8-10 hours without eating and I’m so confused!
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Every baby is different! Don’t worry mama, your little will be on a schedule for themselves soon enough. For the time being just enjoy the way your baby is growing!

Mine just started 8 hour stretches 3 days ago.. :) before she was up every 2 hours as well!

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Hi Hannah! How old is your little one?

She is 9 weeks!

I’m on the same page as you 😴 every 2-4 here as well

My daughter is almost 3 months old and started sleeping longer stretches throughout the night (between 5-8 hours). I find that swaddling with arms down has helped keep her startle reflex from waking her up, and sending her to bed with a pacifier. She also eats right before bed and passes out most nights. Every now and then she’ll have a bad night waking up every couple hours and it’s dreadful!

Hiya! My little girl luckily sleeps all the way through from about 6 weeks old. She’s now 3 months. I didn’t really do anything different to be honest. But for the first 6 weeks she was waking up every 2 hours for about 2oz of her milk every time. I’m thinking she will probably go the opposite soon! Hopefully not though 💗🤞I think all babies are different x

Every time i gave my baby natursutten pacifiers he always had a line on his nose 😀😀

My 4 month old every night does something different 😅😅 But on average wakes up every 3/4 hours at night!!!! God help us 😴😴😴

My little one is just a couple days over the two month mark, when i went back to work and was stressed, she wouldn’t sleep more than 2/3 hrs, I’ve been back at work for three weeks now and except for a bad night ever now and then she’s back up to 4hrs fairly steadily.. she was at 4hrs just before i went back to work but my stress affected her a lot. So every baby and every mom is different- if something is affecting you, it’s affecting your baby. Also, our family doc told us that before they get to about 15pounds the size of their stomach is not big enough to last through the night, so the size of your baby/ baby’s stomach also plays a role in this.

0-4 wks: 3 - 5 hrs 5-7 wks : 4 - 10 hrs. Baby started to learn to sleep through the night w us gently nudging. Erratic, anywhere from 4 to 10 hrs any given night. Each week, baby started getting it more and more. 8 wks : 8 hrs 10-12 wks : 10-11 hrs

Same boat here. Daughter is 6.5 weeks and sleeps 2-3 hours at first and then almost hourly the rest of the night. Hoping things shift soon before I return to work and she starts daycare at 13 weeks...

Our little is 5 months and still doesn’t sleep through the night 😩

At one point, our daughter didn't sleep at all and I was going on 48 hours of no sleep. She got better around 6-8 months old.

Mine is 4.5 months & we average 3-4 wakings a night. Every now and then he has a good week of 2 wakings. I've tried parent led schedules, baby led schedule, different settling techniques, & have a good wind down routine from the beginning etc etc but found no pattern whatsoever! On the one hand its comforting to know its probably not something were doing/ not doing anymore, but on the other I wish there was more I could do to control it without going to extremes. You're doing a great job mumma, each baby is SO different & they keep changing all the time!

Its completely normal ❤ we co-slept so after a while they'd latch on, on their own.

11 weeks here and always wakes up every 2-3 hrs (or less!!) x don’t worry!

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I breastfeed mine and I alway got up 2-3 hours to nursing all night long. Then around 6 months my first born slept 5-6 hours then woke every 3 after. My second child did not do this she still got up about every 3 hours at 1 years old. She is 15 months now and sometimes sleeps all night and sometimes gets up 2x at night but I don’t mind because it keeps my breastmilk from drying up. Of course I want the sleep but she drinks whole milk through the day and I like benefits of breastmilk. Every child is different. Just know it gets better with time. Enjoy your baby while you can! Peoples term for sleeping through the night definition Varys and the amount of sleep the kids sleep vary. Mine always slept 11-12 at night with bedtimes and never having to be woken up.

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Babies sleep longer if you bottle feed them, shorter when you breastfeed them. Very rarely do babies sleep through the nights by 2 months. I did a lot of research. My daughter was up every 4-5 hours for night feeding until I night wean her at 6 months. Now she sleeps through the night, she still make up sometimes because of night scares, but generally she sleeps from 7pm to 6am. It takes a few month, but it’ll come.

Lol! My son is 8 months old and has NEVER slept through the night. He woke up every 3 hours to eat and STILL does. Half of the time he doesn’t even sleep at night. The first couple months I’d be so emotional googling like a mofo to see what I was doing wrong. His pediatrician said I’m doing everything right. She said since he’s so advanced his brain is just on overload and that’s why he doesn’t sleep and he eats so much because he is so active😂 one day we’ll sleep mama!

Apparently in several european countries, they have their kids see sleep specialists if theyre not sleeping through the night by 3-4 months because ot is rare for a child to not sleep through the night by then. They consider it detrimental to their development if they arent sleeping through the night because they can't get sufficient quality sleep (and they learn poor sleep habits). Not in the US though, it seems. I think it's all about what your priorities are.

My child usually slept about 18 hours a day. He would pretty much just sleep while drinking my breastmilk through a bottle. I was crazy lucky the first 3 months.

I think it just depends on the baby and if your formula feeding or breast feeding. We were lucky enough that our twin girls both slept average 10 hrs a night starting at 2 months. They were formula fed at this point bc I couldn't produce enough/ any more milk. 😔

All 3 of my kids woke every 3-4 hours to feed(formula) and continued until they were about a year old. 😫

My girl would wake up every 2 hours on the dot until she was about 4 months old

My baby girl who is 7 months now, started sleeping through the night when she was close to 2 months. I exclusively breastfeed as well so I was extremely surprised when I found out that breastfed babies rarely sleep through the night around 2 months. Never bragged about it I was always afraid I’d jinx it lol 😭😂

My twins were up every 2-3 hours as infants but my newborn baby honestly sleeps! Surprisingly she got on her own schedule which i allowed because after forcing my twins into a schedule when they were infants was just too much/ stress/ chaos! So my newbie baby literally wakes up on her own at 12am 3am and 6am! In the afternoons she tends to nap longer but still feeds every 3-4 hrs! Mind u shes about to be a month

My 3.5 month old wakes up every 2 hours to eat. She’s slept 7 hours through the night twice and we think it was because she didn’t feel good. Most breastfed babies won’t sleep through the night until they start solids

He sleeps about 5 hours and wakes up for one feeding.

Luka started sleeping at least 5-6 hours when I started adding a little baby oatmeal to his bottles I pumped. He is now 10 months and sleeps 12 hours at least.

Mine just turned 6 months and has started sleeping through the night a week ago. At 2 months she was going to bed around 11pm and waking up every 3 hours to eat

Mine sleeps about 4-5 hours and wakes up most nights for one feeding at night depending on how early or late he goes to sleep.

mine is 2 months and wake up every 2 hours and derink 2-3 oz each time(breast milk). Doc said that babies stomach are still small and thats normal. Until they get closer to 15 pounds. Just praying he will sleep longer when hes closer to 15 pounds!

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Try dream feeding! baby girls bedtime is around 7-8pm and my husband dream feeds her at 10-11pm. Dream feeding is when u gently pick them up and feed them while they are sleeping and put them back in crib!

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Thank you so much!!!

I breastfeed my youngest she will fall asleep at eleven and sleep till eleven the next morning but I do dream feed her twice during her sleep otherwise I will be in pain. I did the same with my first

I read this book, Cherish the First Six weeks, and it had us put our son on a routine (okay fine, a schedule, I feel like that’s a dirty word) and it worked great. He’s 2 months now and he sleeps from 8PM to until 6-7AM with one dream feed at 11PM. Check out the book!

I saw a lactation consultant who gave me the best advice on this- hand express about an ounce before feeding the littlest (especially when you feel a little engorged). Their tummies are so small that they can only take in a small amount and the first milk that comes out is the watery thirst quencher before the fatty ‘keep em full’ milk. You want them to fill up on the latter! When i started this, my baby went from sleeping 2 hrs to 4!

I have a 15 month old but when he was 2 months old, he only slept 2 - 3 hours throughout the night and woke up to be breastfed or rocked back to sleep. Yes, it was exhausting and we never did the CIO method, meaning we were sleep deprived parents until he turned 13 months, where he all of a sudden started sleeping 8 hours straight. So to answer your question...I have no answers. Lol

Like every 2 hours he gets up to feed or diaper change :( no sleep sleep deprived lol

Mine started sleeping through night (about 7-9 hours) around that time,plus 3-4 naps. She's 7.5 mos now and sleeps about 12hours at night and three 1-2 hour naps/day. Read Baby Wise (or I can give you a crash course), it'll change your life. And it's not a cry it out method.

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Can you tell me more about Baby Wise? Amazon?

Yes on Amazon (they'll give you free if you have your registry with them), local library. I can also give you a Cliffs Notes version

Usually asleep by 9:30 or 10pm wakes up around 2:30am eats and wakes up at 6:30am or 7am.

At two months mine was waking every 2 hrs and more often towards the morning.

Mine will be 3 months tomorrow, and he has been eating every two hours in the day time and will go down for the night around 11, waking up around 6 to eat.

Check out takingcarababies.com! The newborn is a lifesaver and will help your little sleep longer!

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I just purchased the course 2 weeks ago. Has your baby been sleeping long stretches at night consistently? Right now it's a hit or miss for us, but she will for sure sleep at least 4 hours, sometimes 5 and she's 8 weeks.

My daughter is 7 weeks tomorrow and wakes up to feed at night. To be honest if she didn’t I’d be concerned. She goes a little longer between feeds at night (about 4 hours rather than 3). I usually try and time it so that she eats just before we go to bed (usually about 10) then I get up with her at two and if I’m lucky she sleeps til 6 so we just get up and go downstairs. If she does wake up between 2 and 6 my husband usually gets up with her.

My son is 2 months and he’s only sleeping 3 hour stretches at night. It’s only for a little while so it’s not the end of the world

At 2 months old, a 5 hour stretch at night is considered sleeping through the night. If you’re breastfeeding, baby should definitely still be waking often to eat because of how easily breastmilk is digested and because of how small their bellies are. Unless baby is growing, they don’t typically sleep in 8 hour stretches. Some moms get lucky, but I never did. 😂

Sounds totally normal to me. I'd freak if mine didn't.

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My baby usually sleeps for 6 hours and then eats then back to bed for another 2

Maybe she’s not eating enough before she is sleeping 😴

My son sleeps from 1 am until 8 or 9 am. All of my babies have been rockstar sleepers.

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Rockstar parenting!

Totally normal!

My 6 week old sleeps one long spurt, about 3-4 hours. Then he's up every 2. He will eat 2-4 oz of formula. I live for the long spurt.

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