To think that no one on here has a baby who sleeps less than mine does?

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My daughter is 23 weeks old. She has always been a terrible sleeper but I am starting to think that there is something seriously unusual about her sleeping habits.

She usually sleeps from 8pm - 11pm (although this is a fairly welcome recent development), 12am - 3am, and 5am - 7am, so basically 8 hours at night. She will also, under protest, have one 20 - 30 minute nap in the middle of the day.

I seriously DEFY anyone to have a baby that sleeps less than this. Or, maybe give me some hope, I am on my knees after 5 months of this...

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ohhh OP, if only i could have introduced you to ds2 when he was younger.

my lovely, lovely second child. he fed every 45-90 minutes, every. single. night until he was nearly TEN months old.
and he only stopped then because I introduced a dummy and a comforter. and then he STILL woke but i didn't have to feed him every time and after a while he stretched out so he was "only" feeding every 3-4 hours

My first dc slept so little that when dc2 went 5 hours without waking I rang the health visitor thinking something terrible was wrong . Hv was puzzled but patient at my panicky complaints and refused to treat it as an emergency. She explained that's what babies do.

But in 3 and 1/2 years dc1 never had. In fact he went through a phase of not sleeping anywhere at all except on top of the washing machine (spin cycle).

I was pretty smug when ds slept through 630-530 at least from around 8 weeks. Everyone told me I was very lucky,I thought it was my great routines etc.
Not so smug when it stopped. In fact I broke down in tears at baby clinic. The absolute loneliness of being a mum & ds not sleeping is exhausting. I am dreading how I'll manage when I go back to work full time in 4&half months.