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To ask how many times your baby woke last night and how old they are?

103 replies

bumpandkind · 15/11/2013 08:08

Going mad with sleep deprivation and need support!

OP posts:
CrohnicallyTired · 15/11/2013 13:09

At 5 months, DD woke every 2 hours like clockwork. If we went to bed at 9, she would wake at 11, 1, 3, 5 and 7.

Now she's 13 months and woke twice last night, she does have rare periods of sleeping through but I think she's getting another tooth.

zatyaballerina · 15/11/2013 13:10

2, woke up about five times and went back to sleep with a cuddle, which is typical. Massive improvement on the torture her constantly interrupted sleeping used to be. I long for the night where I can sleep for six or seven hours straight........

Lj8893 · 15/11/2013 13:11

Dd is nearly 3 weeks. She didn't actually go to sleep till about 1.30am last night but DH was still up anyway. And then she woke for feeds at about 4.30am, 7.30am and 9.30am. She then slept right through till 12 so I got to catch up on sleep this morning!

I'm sure she wakes up in between feeds too but by the time I have noticed and woken up properly to attend to her she has settled back asleep.

I'm pretty lucky I know! And I know it could all change yet!

SaucyJack · 15/11/2013 13:12

Twice- and she got into our bed from about 4.30 onwards. She's nine in March.

TheFabulousIdiot · 15/11/2013 13:14

loads - 5+ including one trip downstairs for a drink and then downstairs for a straw.

He will be 3 in December.

ElleBellyBeeblebrox · 15/11/2013 13:15

DS is 5 months. Typically he's up 5-6 times but last night I was so shattered I snuggled him in next to me and every time he whinged I supplied boob to send him off again. So have no idea how many times! I'm just desperate for more than a couple of hours sleep. And DP is desperate for some canoodling but I'm just TOO TIRED!

Cruze · 15/11/2013 13:20

5 months old.
5 wake ups between 7pm & 3:30 then awake properly from 5:05...

3.4 year old slept from 7pm-7:30am with no wake ups.

Squitten · 15/11/2013 13:26

5yr old and nearly-3yr old sleep 6:30pm-6:30am with no wake ups.

Baby is 5 days old. I think she woke up about 700 times. She just feeds constantly and sleeps very little. Spends all bloody day sleeping instead!

Lutrine · 15/11/2013 13:28

6 month old woke up 3 times, but came into bed with me at 5.30ish to be fed with us both lying down as I was knackered, we fell back asleep for 2 hours! (while poor DH slept in the sofa).

mumbaisapphire · 15/11/2013 13:37

6 months. Went to sleep at 6.15- she is exhausted as she is heavily constipated at the moment as we have just embarked on solids. Slept through until 10pm when we dream feed her. She went back down at 11pm and slept through until 4, when she woke up screaming due to her bowels! Settled back until 6.30 and it happened again. More prunes for her today!

Thegreatunslept · 15/11/2013 13:41

Ds 5 months went to sleep bout 7.30 put into cot at 8.30 woke at 4 had a feed back to sleep til 6 dp went in tried bottle but ds refused so turned the night light on and he dozed til 7.10 good night for us!

FudgefaceMcZ · 15/11/2013 13:50

Twice. Aged nearly 4. The 11 yo didn't wake up at all though... Only 7 more years.

PeazlyPops · 15/11/2013 13:51

3 times. 19 months old.

BergholtStuttleyJohnson · 15/11/2013 13:53

3 year old woke zero times, 20 month old 3 times

Idocrazythings · 15/11/2013 14:00

5 1/2 years. Up four times. Taken back three times, didn't notice her the fourth time to take back . Also woke up to 3 1/2 year old in the bed and DH on lounge suite.

ShirazSavedMySanity · 15/11/2013 14:03

5 year old slept through (hurrah)
3 year old up 4 times

Started our day at 5.45 today. Yawn.
I'm now at work for a rest/

cupcake78 · 15/11/2013 14:05

4.5 months, went down at 8.30. Woke at 12, 1, murmured at 3 then woke for good at 5.30.

She used to sleep through but that's all lost for now.

Ds is 6 and wakes up at some point maybe 3 nights a week. Is up for the day by 6.30 everyday.

BuntyCollocks · 15/11/2013 14:24

10 months. Her brother woke her up an hour after she went to bed, she didn't go to sleep until 11:30, but slept until 7am. We're hopefully coming out of the otherside of horrendous reflux/no sleeping, where she'd be up every hour, or for hours during the night.

Sirzy · 15/11/2013 14:26

Ds was 4 on Wednesday he woke up 4 or 5 times (I lost count!). Last night was particularly bad because his asthma is playing up but normally its at least twice

Wibblypiglikesbananas · 15/11/2013 14:27

26 days. He woke every hour. The same last night too. I can't see straight, I'm so tired!

The irony is that 2yo DD now sleeps 8pm - 7am so is getting more sleep than the rest of the household, despite not sleeping through the night until she was 15 months.

RunningKatie · 15/11/2013 14:35

Dd is 2.10 and woke once but that's unusual.

ds is 12 months and woke up 5 times. Worst night all week. He's currently fighting his nap too Sad

WhereIsMyHat · 15/11/2013 14:40

16 months and three, bloody times. When will it ever end?!?!

FriendlyElephant · 15/11/2013 14:47

8 months, she was up four times before I took her into my bed at around 3am... then she woke up again and I fed her back to sleep an hour or two after that. I'm with you, it's totally exhausting :(

sebsmummy1 · 15/11/2013 14:56

I co-slept with my son from birth till about 4 months. I had a Moses basket but he couldn't settle in it because of his chronic reflux. I ended up taking him into the spare bed with me and bought a co sleeping bassinet. This was the only way I actually hot some sleep and kept my sanity.

At around 4 months I would wait until he fell asleep then moved into the main bedroom to sleep with OH. He would then wake about 2x 3x a night. I was ebf so would stagger in there, feed and stagger back.

I got him into a routine once he stopped cluster feeding. I think it was around 4 months. As long as I knew he was fed I would leave him to go to sleep on his own at about 7pm. I think this helped develop a good sleep routine as now he sleeps from about 7.30 - 7. He will cry for a bit though, when I leave the room. But we have a video monitor where we can watch him and he soon starts bottom feeding around the cot (basically face planting from one end to the other) and rolling about. Then he'll find a sweet spot and go to sleep.

I'm trying to imagine if I would have felt so chilled if I could only hear him and not see him, and I'm thinking not. I might have wanted to check him a lot more which would have made the situation spiral.

Don't know if you want yo give us any more info so we can try and help? I will say it is very usual for little babies to cry scream with no outwardly obvious reason. Gripe water definitely helped us xxx

HeffalumpTheFlump · 15/11/2013 15:12

Dd is 5 weeks, she's sleeping for an hour at a time and up for half an hour in between. I'm also going doolally through lack of sleep. We are having issues with reflux, constipation and colic though.

I'm using the mn 'this too shall pass' saying as my personal mantra at the moment!