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Poll - if your breastfed baby slept though the night at an early age....

114 replies

pupuce · 09/04/2006 20:13

First let's qualify sleeping through : at least 7 to 9 hours non stop (so from 10/11PM to 6/7AM)... and let's qualify an early age... anything below 10 weeks....
Did you:
co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed)
co-bed (baby in your bed)
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night
let baby sleep in his/her room from days old
fed lying down
fed sitting up

Am quite curious.... have a few thoughts on this now that I work with some many postnatal mums.
Thank you!

Thanks

OP posts:
hunkermunker · 09/04/2006 20:15

Interesting poll - would love to give you answers for my babies, but will wander off cackling in a maniacal, sleep-deprived way, stumbling and bashing into things if it's all the same to you... Grin

Will be back to do Envy faces later though.

moondog · 09/04/2006 20:15

MIne didn't but no matter.
Just wanted to say hello Pupuce and how are you?? (meaningful nudge)
Smile

Original poster
pupuce · 09/04/2006 20:16

I am all right Wink

OP posts:
alittlebitshy · 09/04/2006 20:17

dd was in her own room at 7 weeks.

by the defintion of sleeping through she (honestly) did that from just past birth- only ever woke once a night , and stopped that at around the time she went into her own room.

when i DID feed at night it was sititng up. never mastered lying down.

lockets · 09/04/2006 20:18

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TicTacsMum · 09/04/2006 20:18

DD, aged 4 months has slept through (nearly every night) since coming home from hospital at 2 days. Exclusively breastfed, fed to sleep in my bed (as i recline on the pillows) and put down in her moses basket next to me. Never taken her into bed with me to sleep - only to feed last thing at night and first thing in the morning.

moondog · 09/04/2006 20:18

Grin P
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moodywren · 09/04/2006 20:18

My ds slept through the night 9pm til 7am from 5 weeks. His cot is in our room but I never let him sleep in bed with me. He has his first fed of the day lying down in bed with me but all other feeds are sitting up.

jabberwocky · 09/04/2006 20:19

Okay, I'' bite:
We co-slept with one of those small cribs that attaches to our bed and fed sitting up
(never could get the hang of feeding lying down). Ds woke up every 2 hours for 8 months!!!

mesenfantsmaman · 09/04/2006 20:20

Let baby sleep in own room, fed lying down Smile I had twins first and found the babies in own room worked for me (before anyone jumps on me for being a meanie Grin)

4blue1pink · 09/04/2006 20:23

My last three have gone from 11 till 8 from two weeks - even i am surprised.
My seven week old woke us today at 9.15
Once they are sleeping through ( two weeks) I move them to their own room ( odd but we find they sleep better on own)
Feed sitting up and dream feed the 11.00 one we feed expressed in a bottle. We find they dont even wake up on boob just suckle and snore! The expressed feed is less snuggly and they dont wake just feed - gets a lot more down them!
HTH !

cjmummy · 09/04/2006 20:23

hi, my ds slept through ... 10 or 11pmish until 6amish after about 5 days ... prob 2 nights after getting out of hospital after an emergency cs. it didnt last for ever though - the midwife even told me i should be waking him up for feeds in the night as she thought it was too long for a baby to sleep without a feed - i ignored her though! he was sleeping in a moses basket in our room .. we kept him up pretty late and gave him a bath v late just before a final bf sitting up in a chair ... then he went off and we went to bed at the same time. after a few weeks he started waking up once .. maybe twice at night for a feed but by 8-10 weeks he was sleeping through again on and off. not sure if this was what you were after ... let me know if you need to know anything else.

roosmum · 09/04/2006 20:25

first 3 weeks were hell - ds would only fall asleep on my or dh's chest, so we took it in turns to have him on our chests (in bed)
hr was either 6 or 7 weeks when he started doing 9pm-4am reliably (in moses basket next to me, then swing crib). this lasted til somewhere between 4 and 6 months (see, the sleep deprivation means i can hardly remember when exactly!) when he became a terrible sleeper, worse than a newborn...this lasted up until a couple of weeks ago when he started sleeping 7.30 til 5ish - hooray! Grin
no sleep training here, bf at night until recently, into cotbed in his own room at 6 mths. used to feed him sitting up in bed at first, later lying down, when we'd both fall asleep mid-feed (still do that now when he wakes at 4/5ish, go fetch him from room, feed in our bed, sleep for another hour or two).
phew!

roosmum · 09/04/2006 20:26

ds now 14 mths btw.

Flossam · 09/04/2006 20:26

Hi pupuce - did you manage to book rooms at st thomas' at all a few months ago? Where did you go in the end?!

With regards to the OP I think I will follow HUnker.... Wink

LIZS · 09/04/2006 20:29

dd slept through earlier than ds, at around 8/9weeks, having been very unsettled at first due to undiagnosed reflux.

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) yes
co-bed (baby in your bed) no
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night no
let baby sleep in his/her room from days old no
fed lying down }both
fed sitting up }

As soon as she slept through her weight gain became much less and she developed an ear infection.

Bozza · 09/04/2006 20:32

Envy x 2. i.e. neither of mine did this.

JennyWren · 09/04/2006 20:54

My dd slept from 7pm to 7am, with a dreamfeed at 10/11pm (usually I woke her but occasionally she woke herself) from about 7/8 weeks old. She slept in her moses basket in her own room from about 2 weeks old (in moses basket in our room until then) and was always fed sitting up. She actually had EBM from a bottle until about the same age (7/8 weeks) as she was very slow in learning to breastfeed, but after that point was 'properly' breastfed. For her dreamfeed and on the rare occasions that she woke at another time I almost always went into her room to feed her there, in the dark, rather than bring her into our room.

Why - what are your thoughts?

dreamteamgirl · 09/04/2006 21:15

DS slept through from 12 weeks to 26 weeks so slightly outside your time frame, but thought Id answer anyway...

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) Only til 5 weeks
co-bed (baby in your bed) No, both of us hate sharing a bed
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night no
let baby sleep in his/her room from days old no
fed lying down }never mastered it
fed sitting up } yes

Just wish he would go back to sleeping through now.... :-(

alicemama · 09/04/2006 21:24

dd1 slept thru from 2 weeks! and went into her own room at 6 weeks.
dd2 now 4 1/2months has only just started sleeping thru after weeks and weeks of waking twice a night.
Fed sitting up and always slept in her own cot in our room til a few weeks ago.

Frizbe · 09/04/2006 21:37

dd1 woke every 3 hrs until I started her on a bottle of breast at 3mths, then she started going from 7-7 for me, with a dream feed in a bottle at 11pm!

dd2 is currently 5 wks old and is stocking up all evening, then sleeping for 5 hrs straight most nights!

expatinscotland · 09/04/2006 21:40

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in our bed)
fed sitting up (still haven't got the hang of lying down)

she started sleeping thru at about 14 weeks

fruitful · 09/04/2006 21:52

Envy Envy Envy

I knew I shouldn't have read this thread!

lovecloud · 09/04/2006 22:04

My dd slept from 9pm - 7/8am from 8.5 weeks old.

At the age she was sleeping next to me in her cot.

I breastfed her as much as she wanted in the day which fell into a rountine quite early. Although sometimes I remember feeling like I fed her all evening!!!

The last feed was always in my bedroom on the bed lying down or sitting up - mainly sitting!

It changed to always lying down, night and morning feeds in my bed, usually the morning one we would both snooze off again.

Ahhhhhhhhh - i loved it!

No.2 coming soon so hopefully will be just as good as their sister :)

rarrie · 09/04/2006 22:07

From 5 1/2 weeks, my DD slept 12 - 5, by six weeks she sept 12-6, by ten weeks it was 11 - 7 easily.

My DD was 100% breastfed, but we did do the 'cluster feeding' as recommended by the Baby whisperer.

I did not sleep with her, but her moses basket was right next to my bed. I was fed sitting up (big boobs, could never get the hang of doing it lying down) and I fed her wherever we were at the time!