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

[pupuce]

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

From 12 weeks my dd slept 7-7 until she was 6mths. She was 100% breastfed, slept in a cot in our bedroom. I fed her laying down at night, but sitting up mostly during the day.

Since she was 6mths she started waking in the night, so she slept in our bed, fed constantly and still wakes to get in our bed aged 3 years!

DD1 was going from 11pm to 6am at 6 weeks, co-bed (for 9 months then part co-bed), fed lying down (lazy cow that I am)

DD2 13 weeks now needs 1 or 2 night feeds still, starts night in her bedside cot, then co-bed after 1st feed, also feed lying down, usually fall back asleep wake up with babe asleep and cold exposed boob!

My theory is DD2 much bigger baby needs more milk, any tips on how to get her to sleep through would be lovely!

I'm sure I'm wrong but I seem to remember DD sleeping right through from the start (8 hours anyway). At first it would be from about midnight until 7/8am then gradually she'd go to bed earlier and sleep from 11 then 10 then 9 right through after only a few weeks. DS was totally different and woke every 2 hours for feeding and never slept through the night until a year old despite trying the same regime.

To answer inital questions ...

co-sleep - yes up until 5 weeks then I went back into my bed with DH
co-bed (never)
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night - nope
let baby sleep in his/her room from about 5 weeks
fed lying down - nope
fed sitting up - yes

Our baby slept through from about 6 weeks, which at the time I thought was great but I now blame for mucking up my milk supply.

Anyway:
no co-sleeping
no co-bed
no co-sleep/co-bed later in the night
she slept in her room from the time we came home from hospital.

tried feeding lying down once or twice but it didn't work very well
fed sitting up almost always

Co-bed (refuses to sleep in bedside cot),\lying down, she would prefer to sleep from 12 to 8 but I wake her up at 3.00 and 6.00. 3.00 feed usually quite good, 6.00 she is really not interested. she is 8 weeks

pupuce - what is your conclusion/theory?

I bf dd until 2 years old. Until she was 7 months old we all slept in the same room but always in separate beds. She slept from 8pm til 6am from around 8 weeks old.

Right finally read the whole thing....
I don't think weight matters but you're welcome to start a thread to check. I know plent of good sleepers who are small and bad sleepers who are big babies !

It's good to see so many BF babies sleeping thorugh early... it is a myth that only botlefed babies do this!(It's usually what breatsfeeding mums think though )

Interesting that no one (who responded) to the "slept early" was co-bedding (baby in the parents' bed). Quite a few have their babies from early on in their own room too.
Could not note a difference in ying down or sitting up feeding....

Thanks again :-)

pupuce, I think i replied earlier, but we co-slept - mostly in the same bed - and 2 of my 3 bf babies did sleep through very young.

sorry fennel - you are in the minority though

Hello, hello, hello

My dd slept from 11pm - 6am form 8 weeks and that is no word of a lie. Fennel knows this too.

Ds however, I have not had longer than three hours sleep at a stretch since he was born nearly 13 weeks ago. At the moment I'm lucky if it's an hour and a half!!!

Didn't see this thread before - but ds slept through from about 2 weeks (too early in fact as he wasn't gaining weight, so I had to wake him to feed him! ). As he gained wieght, I extended the period of waking him, until we'd decided that there was nothing wrong with him (at about 6 weeks, when I saw the consultant paediatrician), that he was just following his own growth curve and so I stopped waking him.

Co-slept (he was in a crib close to the bed) and fed him sitting up.

In his first 6 months, we had one sleepless and one disturbed night - not something we used to talk about loudly in earshot of friends who also had babies! {grin].

Even when he was going through growth spurts, he didn't wake up - although I used to make myself wake up, express and use that to supplement supplies during the day.

Can I have that baby ?

Dis is now 5.5 and still a brilliant sleeper! . Goes down with not (too) much fuss, is asleep within 5 minutes and wakes up between 6.45 and 7.15 in the morning.

We did used to say if we have another one, we would have to have signs put up al around the house sayiing "Remember, they're all different!"