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

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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:
jabberwocky · 11/04/2006 04:40

Am the same as chocolate shoes. This is the thread I should be on.

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 Sad

At 2.7 years he still frequently wakes up once during the night.

Original poster
pupuce · 11/04/2006 18:57

Have not had a chance to read all but i will
thank you for all your contributions... and I will look at popsy other thread too Smile

OP posts:
beartime · 11/04/2006 22:44

Ds slept through from 11pm (after 10pm feed) to 6am from 6 weeks old. He slept in his own room right from the start, and always fed sitting up.

mcmudda · 11/04/2006 23:02

Ds - 9 weeks
Own room from 3 weeks
Fed both lying down and sitting up depending on how tired I was!

DD - 8 weeks
Own room from 2 weeks
Fed sitting up.

Also started using Infacol at 8 weeks - dd had been previously waking 3/4 times a night v windy and in pain.

beartime · 12/04/2006 07:16

I think you should ask abt feeding frequency during the day too Smile

suzi2 · 12/04/2006 22:25

Yep - my DS did at about 10 wks. 7 hours between feeds. Although, before anyone gives me Envy... he stopped doing it at 15 wks and has been up at least once 98% of the time since. Not sure where we went wrong there Grin. Sharing a room at the time although I slept in the spare room and DH shared with DS.

elclose · 13/04/2006 10:12

DD1 fully breastfed in own room at 3 weeks slept from 8.30 till 7.30 at 4 weeks 5 days always fed sitting in a chair in her room, fed 3-4 hourly in day with quite a set routine not for any reason just happened like that
DS2 fullybreastfed in own room at 4 weeks slept from 6pm till 4am from 11 weeks but a little unpredictable started sleeping 7 till 6.30 am at about 17 weeks always feed sitting in chair, fed more frequently in day less of a routine but now in a set routine as weaning nearly 6 months.

dinosaure · 13/04/2006 10:14

None of my three (all breastfed) were sleeping through at 10 weeks.

DS1 - breastfed sitting up in a chair

DS2 - started off breastfed in bed because I was too exhausted to get up, then after about three weeks, breastfed sitting up in a chair

DS3 - breastfed lying down because I kept falling asleep and falling out of chair with him in my arms!

blueshoes · 13/04/2006 10:22

I'm with you, Tipex Smile. You are not alone in thinking that way.

Helen38 · 13/04/2006 10:27

Ds1 slept 10-6 from 3wks

Ds2 had bottles as well as breast and didn't

Ds3 is nearly 6wks and has been doing 7-8 hrs most nights for the last 2wks from 9-30 ish. feeding in armchair then putting him down and going to bed Grin then feeding sitting in bed when he wakes. He is just on breast. Don't know if will last but would be niceWink

All 3 slept in crib in our room.

rosebea · 16/04/2006 19:59

DD1 from 3 weeks slept 7-11 where we added a dream feed then 11:30-7 and she's now nearly three and never wakes in the night.
DD2 goes to bed at 7 wakes at 11 for a feed, then 2am then 4 am then 6am then 8 am.
Strangely enough DD2 is a much calmer baby than DD1 was.....possibly because she's so tired all the time from lack of sleep that she doesn't have the energy to cry.......no wait a minute.....that's me! Sad

mabel1973 · 16/04/2006 20:32

My ds slept through at 9 weeks. We found out purely by accident after spending the night at my mums he had to sleep in a travel cot rather than his moses basket and the extra room he had seemed to help him sleep better.
So after that we put him in his big cot in his room and he slept through ever since.

mabel1973 · 16/04/2006 20:35

by the way we didn't have room in our bedroom for his big cot, so that was not an option. I do think though that we disturbed him during the night, so it helped him being in his own room.

fennel · 16/04/2006 20:49

2 of my 3 bf babies slept through the night very young. 10 hours or more nonstop most nights from 4 weeks (dd1) and 8-9 hours nonstop from 5 weeks (dd3).

we co-slept and fed lying down.

dd2 didn't. she was in her own room far younger than the others as she was a light and restless sleeper.

hnl · 16/04/2006 23:50

My ds slept through from 8 weeks. He sleeps about 9 hours a night - the little star :o. I never got the hang of feeding lying down & wasn't confident enough to try co-sleeping - being afraid I would squash him! He's in a crib in my room but due to move into his own room soon :( as he's 7 months & nearly too big for the crib.

Uwila · 17/04/2006 10:25

DD:
co-slept for two weeks, then into her cot in her room.
Fed sitting up.

DS:
co-slept for 8 weeks, then off to his own room.
Fed lying down sometimes, sitting sometimes.

Both slept through the night at 8 weeks, and never looked back..... yippee!! Smile

bossykate · 17/04/2006 10:31

yes, both ds and dd.

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) - ds was in his own room from about 3 days, i thought if he was miserable and waking up a lot we would move him in with us, but he never was. dd was in her room from about six weeks and in with us in a cot before that - but only because we moved three weeks before she was born and there were no curtains in her room until she was about six weeks old.

co-bed (baby in your bed) - no, tried with dd for a couple of nights but couldn't relax, too worried about her suffocating!

co-sleep/co-bed later in the night - no

let baby sleep in his/her room from days old - see above

fed lying down - very occasionally with both

fed sitting up - mostly.

fwiw, my own thoughts are that i had very large (9.5 & 10.5 lb-ers) babies who were slightly jaundiced - therefore they needed waking up to feed at intervals and consequently fell v. naturally into a routine - just my 2c.

marthamoo · 17/04/2006 10:43

No, neither of them did. Ds1 was breast-fed, slept downstairs with us in a carry cot then went to bed with us later - same room and invariably in the same bed. I couldn't feed him lying down - the milk dripped out of his nose (didn't bother him, freaked me out), so I fed sitting up. He didn't sleep more than a 2 hour stretch until he was 8 months old and didn't actually sleep through the night 'til he was three (though I stopped breast-feeding at 12 months so that's a separate issue).

Ds2 was better - was breast-fed, lying down and sitting up..he was in the same room as us but didn't come in the bed with us as often as ds1 had. He first slept through the night (from about 10pm to 5.30ish at about 8 months old).

I just don't have babies that sleep

MumtoBen · 22/04/2006 21:48

Didn't sleep through until 6 months.

Baby slept in cot with me in same room, although did move back into main bedroom at about 4-5 months as his snoring kept me awake!
Occasionally co-slept when he had colic as that was the only thing to calm him down
Fed sitting up
Breast fed until 6 months and after I stopped he starting sleeping through the night - co-incidence? I think not. Although illnesses have since made him wake up.

fsmail · 25/04/2006 21:30

DS - four years, little rascal, DD 12 weeks.

fsmail · 25/04/2006 21:31

By the way DS was off the boob at 12 months so it was just down to him. takes after DH he was five also and bottlefed.

fsmail · 25/04/2006 21:32

By the way DS was off the boob at 12 months so it was just down to him. takes after DH he was five also and bottlefed.

spinach · 25/04/2006 21:33

pupace, collate these replies and let me know what the magical solution is. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeassssssssssssssssssssssse

fsmail · 25/04/2006 21:36

I think where we went wrong with DS was letting him sleep in the bed with us from birth and feeding him to sleep. DD being second to wiser sleep-deprived parents was next to the bed but I always fed her sitting up and put her back in her cot to go to sleep. I will never share a bed again.

hunkermunkfish · 25/04/2006 21:37

Was thinking about this today! Want to know "the answer" - lol!