Waking in the night 15 week old

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Hi,

How many times does your 15ish week old wake in the night and how many of those times do they want feeding?

Thanks

Depends. How long is a piece of string. My DD sometimes sleeps through but during growth spurts, she has been known to feed all night off and on.

At 15 weeks, twice a night 3am and 5am (up for the day at 7am). Only woke to feed.

Thanks, my baby is waking at 11ish 3ish and then up for the day at 8ish. She's hungry each time she wakes. Which I thought wasn't too bad but my husband thought she should be sleeping more by now. Then I was talking to an NCT friend and she said that her baby is waking up a couple of times and although he will eat then she thinks he's not really hungry and he's waking out of habit. So she now won't feed him before 3am. How does she know he's not hungry if he's awake and will feed?

I have a 15 MONTH old who woke last night for a feed at 2am and 4am and woke for the day at 7am.

She goes to bed between 6.30pm and 7pm when she has a both sided feed but I tend to feed one sided at night as she gets very sleepy and doesn't want the other side.

She also has an AnyWay Up cup in the cot with her if she wants to have a drink of water but she still prefers Mummy (DH generally goes in first to see if she settles with him, sometimes she does and some times she doesn't). The older DDs have water on their bedside tables but they are old enough to help themselves and then go back to sleep (3.2 & 4.11y/o).

Waking in the night for a feed at 15m is on the scale of normal though so a 15 week old waking for two feeds in the night is VERY normal. That's not to say a baby that sleeps longer without waking isn't normal just that night waking for feeds isn't peculiar or wrong - I wake for a drink in the night - why shouldn't my baby/toddler?

The older DDs have water on their bedside tables but they are old enough to help themselves and then go back to sleep (3.2 & 4.11y/o). I don't expect my toddler to get herself back to sleep if she is hungry/thirsty (she is always put down awake but sleepy however she has only started doing that from about a year old prior to that she fed to sleep).

11, 3 and up for the day at 8 sounds pretty good to me! I was feeding ds at 10ish when I went to bed too.

When ds hit the 4 month sleep regression he was waking every hour or two, and obviously not every time was hunger. 5 months he was down to 11 and 3 again. I don't feel you can expect that 11-7 stretch til they're weaned - ds is 6 months and eating three meals a day and mostly does 11-6 now.

17 weeks. Feeds at 8-3-5-7 but lat couple of nights has been 8:30-3:30-7 . Bit more sociable.

18 weeks - bed @ 9.30 then up at 1ish, 4.30ish and up at 8.30

I'm surprised you all know the time. If DD wakes, I just stick her on the breast and go back to sleep again. I have no clue what time it is. I must feed her in my sleepsometimes as I have no recollection of it and yet I have moved to the other side of the bed and my nighty is open.

Your DD sounds normal to me. He still has at least one night feed now at 13 months. Like TruthSweet, I often need a drink in the night too so I can't object if DS wants one too.

At around that age, DS woke for one or two feeds, until he hit the 4 month sleep regression, when he woke maybe 4 times a night and I fed him each time. It went back to 1 or 2 without me doing anything.

I know he's hungry when he wakes and won't be rocked to sleep, only fed.

Tryharder, do you co-sleep by any chance? I always used to know what time / how often DS woke, but since we've been co-sleeping, I don't wake up enough to even remember properly either.

14.5 weeks here. We were down to one feed a night, about 2 or 3am, then up at 7am, but over the last few weeks has been anything - including every 2 hours!! Better last night - 11.30pm, then 6am. Tryharder, I can't believe you have switched sides in your sleep - do you ever sleep walk??? I always have to go to the loo, drink water, lay down his little blanket in bed for catching the barf, etc etc.

My 14 week old twins go to sleep at about 7pm, then wake at 1am ish, 3am ish and then up for the day at 6 ish.

Once, they both slept from 7pm to 6am . Its never happened again though.

I think you are doing pretty well there. 15 weeks is still very young.

Be prepared that the wakings may get more frequent before they stop though!! :)