Aargh! DS is 6 months next week. There have been 2 occasions so far that he has slept for more than 7 hours in a row. There have been less than 10 occasions when he has slept for more than 5 hours and these have been mainly after vaccinations.
Does anyone else have a 6 month old that doesn't sleep a long spell at night?
He is still in the room with me in his cot (DP is in the spare room in order to get some sleep). DS is EBF but we have been BLW for a few weeks and he now gets two 'meals' a day, but it's BLW so kind of hard to tell how much he's getting. He doesn't take a bottle.
Last night we put him to bed and he slept for 3 hours 20 minutes. He then woke and I fed him. I put him down in bed awake and he fell asleep. He slept for 3 hours and 20 minutes. Again, I fed him and put him down awake. He slept for 3 hours and 20 minutes. He then woke and I fed him.... Surely hunger can't be this regular?
His last feed of the 'day' starts at 7pm, he goes to sleep at about 7:30-7:45 then his first feed of the night is usually anytime between 10:30pm and midnight, but he once went until 12:30am. If his feed is around 11, he usually wakes between 3am and 4am for another feed. He goes back down very easily after night feeds and sometimes takes lots of milk, but sometimes (especially in recent weeks) is a bit less interested than during the day.
When he wakes at night I usually ignore him to see what happens. He has a toy rabbit and if he's dropped this on the floor I give it back. He often goes back to sleep and I only feed him if either he cries and won't re-settle or if it's been more than 4 hours since his last feed.
I cannot continue to function only getting sleep in 3 hour slots. All the other local baby mums seem to have babies who sleep 11 hours at night and have issues with naps instead. I think I'd swap the naps for good night sleep. Most days he has 3 naps of 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. But how much naps he has does not seem to correspond to how much night sleep he has. Or there's no pattern I can see.
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JollySergeantJackrum · 12/10/2011 16:43
I have a 15 week old who has twice slept more than 3 hours in a row (4 hours both times)...normally does 2 hour sleep stretches - does that count? 
My baby has slept through the night 5 nights in a row now - anything from 7.30pm-5am and even til 7.30am!
I hope it lasts.
He's 14 months
Congrats RitaMorgan! (secretly wishing that this happens to my DD about 10 months before then....)
My DD didn't sleep more than 3 hours in a row until she was 12 mo. She started sleeping through (intermittently) from 13 mo.
BUT I did find my body evolved various strategies to cope - such as needing less sleep in general and a kind of shoulder-shrug approach to the whole thing. Once I stopped stressing about sleep so much, I was more able to deal with less-than-the-ideal amount of it.
DD was mix-fed in the first few weeks, then EBF, started weaning from 5 months (purees and finger foods) and had her last breastfeed at 19 mo.
We did two bouts of sleep training - two days-worth at 7.5 months to get her to unlatch and get herself to sleep at the start of the night (which also had the effect of cutting night wakings from 5-6 to 2-3) then again at 19 mo.
DD mostly sleeps through now, but we still get occasional early wakings (pre 06.00) and brief night wakings (probably nightmares).
Hang on in there, it'll get better! 
I had to temporarily stop speaking to some friends as they made me feel like an utter failure at this whole sleep thing with their "well my DC slept through at 3 weeks" malarky.
At 6mo, DD was still feeding 2-3 hourly round the clock so you are not alone! 3 hours in a row currently feels like heaven at the mo (now 9 mo). Still, she is better than DS was even if I am a permanent zombie zzzzzzz.
I have since decided it's all genetic and I shouldn't feel bad about it
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I have NO idea. Can't even do the caffeine thing as am pregnant. I spend my days looking like this: 
Sorry Jolly, I don't think I've been very helpful. Although someone did tell me today that the Millpond book is only a fiver on Amazon at the moment..
DD has just turned 1 and her record is 4 hours. I went back to work at 6 months and am now full time. I also run the NCT NNS (happening this weekend) and am in the midst of moving house malarky.
DS slept through... At 23 months. I have only another 11 months to wait....,.,
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Oh bollox it seems never ending doesn't it..
Not sure if I've helped either but fuck it... I love you too 
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