My 6 week old DS has (so far) been a really good sleeper both day and night. He takes regular naps in the day including reliably 2 hours plus over lunchtime, and until recently was only waking up once at night between 10pm ish and 6-6.30am - around 2.30-3am - which was BLISS. However, he's shifted slightly and over last couple of weeks, he's slept 7-10pm ish, then change & feed and 11pm-1.30/2am, then feed (& change if necessary) then 2.30/3 till 5/5.30am. I don't wake him up to feed, just wake when I hear him fussing. We get up at 7am when my DH goes to work.
I know he's still small and we are lucky he sleeps as much as he does, but does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get him to go back to longer stretches at night like he was before? I know he can do it because he's easily gone 4 hours on various occasions but he stubbornly only has a short first stretch of night sleep (the 11-1/2am one) and the second stretch is getting shorter as he wakes up earlier. On the other hand, he sleeps like a log from 7pm and we always have to wake him for the feed before we go to bed, which makes me wonder if he therefore doesn't feed well at the 10/11pm feed?
He's EBF, and has his daytime sleeps mostly in his pram bassinet and nighttime sleeps in his cot by our bed. I bring him into bed for night feeds and then settle him back in the cot when he's drowsy (if he's gassy, it can take 30-40 mins as he's not comfy lying down and needs burping/keeping upright). We don't want to co-sleep and in any case it wouldn't help with the gas.
Bit of a long one, sorry - I'm new to all this! Any suggestions? The short stretches of sleep at night are starting to knacker me out and I'm hopeless at napping in the daytime alas. Thanks
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Getting 6 week old to have his long sleeps at night
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Cuppaqueen · 18/05/2017 09:24
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