Poll - if your breastfed baby did NOT sleep through the night at an early age.....

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popsycalindisguise · 10/04/2006 19:31

following on from Pupuce's thread about BF babies who DO sleep through....thought I would test out my theory...

Sleeping through = at least 7 to 9 hours non stop (so from 10/11PM to 6/7AM)... 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

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Original poster

popsycalindisguise · 10/04/2006 19:34

Here is my response:
Always in our room. Mostly in own cot until about 3 weeks old and fed sitting up in the night. Got zero sleep like that so then fed lying down.

Since he started going to bed at 7pm at around 4 months ish, he starts off in his own cot, then has a feed at 10ish. If I am in bed at that poit, he comes in with me and will probably stay in all night unless I can be bothered to move him. Otherwise he goes back in his cot and ocmes in when he next wakes...around 2ish usually. Feed lying down unless I am feeling very virtuous and try to get him back in his cot.

13 months and wakes loads.

Second child....

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nowanearlyNicemum · 10/04/2006 19:35

dd didn't really sleep through until 7 months.

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) - just for the first month
co-bed (baby in your bed) - never
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night - no
let baby sleep in his/her room from days old - one month
fed lying down - during the night and sometimes first feed in the morning
fed sitting up - the rest of the time

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popsycalindisguise · 10/04/2006 19:45

I feel a co-sleeping lying down parents' room theme about to emerge

and maybe also a second baby theme....

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waggledancer · 10/04/2006 19:48

Ds2 co-bed till around 6 weeks
co-sleep in moses basket, then cot next to bed, then cot at end of bed till 6 months
own room at 6 months.
Fed every 2 hours for 5-6 months
Now 12 months and wakes to feed once a night more often than not.
Timings all vague due to sleep deprivation memory loss

chocolateshoes · 10/04/2006 20:00

Oops I posted on the other one not having red the thread properly. This is where I belong!

DS slept from 10 - 7 from 4mths, & then 7-7 from 5 mths. And has slept brilliantly ever since.

co-sleep - Yes in Moses basket in his room until we fed him at 10, then in with us.
co-bed - never
let baby sleep in his room from days old - for daytime naps from day 1
fed sitting up

leogaela · 10/04/2006 20:01

Ds didn't sleep through at a early age, he sleeps through now sometimes (13 months), was mixed fed from about 5 months.

No - first 3 weeks he was in bed with us and in a carry cot in with us. Then he was in his own room.

No - only first 3 weeks, then if it was a really bad night occassionally, but I made a conscious effort to put him back into his own bed if it was before 6am.

Occassionally - if it was a really bad night
After about 3/4 weeks.

yes, sometimes in the night if dh brought ds into to me I wouldn't bother to sit up and sometimes during the day if i wanted to sleep.

yes, if I got up to him I would sit in his room, sometimes up in our bed if I ahd the energy.

monkeytrousers · 10/04/2006 20:06

Ds bf till 13 months - began to sleep thru when stopped but think that was more to do with the fact that he got the last of his teeth through then too.

TheBlonde · 10/04/2006 20:07

Slept through from 12 weeks

Did not co sleep/ co bed
Baby was in cot in own room from 5 weeks
Fed sitting up

monkeytrousers · 10/04/2006 20:13

Sorry for rest of questions

slept in our room in cot till 4 months then into his own room (creaky floorboards waking him up)

NO. For some reason I judt didn't feel comfortable with him in bed with us. I wanted to co-sleep but worried I would smother him too much and so never slept myself.

no, same reason

no

fed lying down on b/feeding cushion

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PiccadillyCircus · 10/04/2006 20:24

DD (6 months) does not sleep through.

Up until a couple of weeks ago we were in the same bedroom, with her in the cot and DH and me in a bed. She has recently moved into her own room.

I feed sitting up although I often fall asleep doing it. I'm not sure if this is quite co-bedding or not - not deliberate but it happens anyway.

She goes to bed between 7 and 8, has either a dream feed or a demanded feed between 10 and 11, and then wakes between 2 and 3 times between then and 7am. Almost always fed back to sleep as I know it will work.

PiccadillyCircus · 10/04/2006 20:25

She is also a second baby (DS slept through from about 12 or 13 weeks, having gone into his own room at 8 weeks)

Bozza · 10/04/2006 20:28

DS:
co-slept in same room - yes until 6 months
co-bed - no
co-bed later in night - yes sometimes if I fell asleep feeding or couldn't get him to settle in cot
baby in own room - not til 6 months
fed lying down - yes
Sletp through from about 5.5 months - 7.45 - 5.30

DD:
Co-slept - yes until 6 months
co-bed - no
co-bed later in night - yes but much less often than DS
baby in own room - 6 months
fed sitting up
Slept through - 7.30 - 3.30 from about 7 months. Yes I know that is a rubbish time frame and I did try instigating a dream feed but it didn't make any difference other than she was hard to settle after it.

waggledancer · 10/04/2006 20:31

Should clarify, ds2 is third child. Both others slept through from between 4 and 5 months.

Always fed lying down at night, couldn't bear that jarring shock as your chin hits your chest as you doze off yet again. .

singersgirl · 10/04/2006 20:37

DS1. Co-slept in same room until about 5 months.
Frequently slept in same bed in first couple of months. Fed lying down until developed mastitis at about 10 weeks.
Did controlled crying at 7 months when I knew he no longer needed night feeding.

FrannyandZooey · 10/04/2006 20:47

Ds co-slept in our bed from birth and fed lying down. He is 3 today. He still doesn't sleep through :(

He's the first and so far only child - mostly, because I am too knackered to have another.

Rhubarb · 10/04/2006 20:56

I did exactly the same with ds as I did with dd.

Both were in our room until 3 months old. But not in our bed.
Both fed on demand in the night.
Both fed sitting up (although I finally mastered lying down and feeding with ds at about 2 months).

Dd slept through from around 4 months old. Ds at about 8 months, when I finally gave up and put him on formula.

suedonim · 10/04/2006 23:08

Did you:

Ds2: Slept through from about 6mths

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) - Yes

co-bed (baby in your bed)- Not to start with

co-sleep/co-bed later in the night - Yes

let baby sleep in his/her room from days old - No

fed lying down - Yes

fed sitting up - Yes
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DD1: Slept through from 5mths
co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) - Yes

co-bed (baby in your bed)- Sometimes

co-sleep/co-bed later in the night - Yes

let baby sleep in his/her room from days old - No

fed lying down - Yes

fed sitting up - Yes
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DD2: Slept through at 2.5yrs!!!

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) - No

co-bed (baby in your bed)- Yes

co-sleep/co-bed later in the night NA

let baby sleep in his/her room from days old - No

fed lying down - Yes

fed sitting up - Yes

PinkTulips · 11/04/2006 00:02

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed)-put to bed in cot in our room for first part of night, if i was still up i'd feed her and put her back in cot.

co-bed (baby in your bed)- once i'd gone to bed if she woke i'd haul her in, shove boob in and go back to sleep

co-sleep/co-bed later in the night- see above!

let baby sleep in his/her room from days old- dd didn't get her own room til 9 months as we lived in a 1 bed so no choice, although from about 2 months - 3/4 months i put her cot in the hall but flat was very small and loud and door was open so really made no differance, thats why i moved it to bedroom again

fed lying down- at night once i'd gone to bed

fed sitting up- anytime before i went to bed

at 5 months she started sleeping through from 10/11pm to 5/6am, at 7 months she stopped, gradually got more and more difficult to get down til it got to the stage at 11 months she wasn't going into her own cot at all most nights and was coming to bed with me when i went, even than she often wouldn't sleep. had to do c/c at 11 months, she now sleeps from 7pm-8am no problems and is fantastically easy to put down

sorry so long!

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threebob · 11/04/2006 04:05

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

We did all of these, but not necessarily all in the one night. Ds slept through once before he was a year old.

We moved house and he was a lot further away, and he just slept like a log and still does. Weird, and proof that the one thing that might work might not be something you have any control over.

sassy · 11/04/2006 08:12

dd1 - not much co-bedding(only by accident!), slept in moses basket nnext to me. Did not sleep through for some months.

dd2 - co-bedded. Slept from 11pm-6am by 3 weeks!

CarolinaMooncup · 11/04/2006 08:35

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) - in his moses basket for the first 3-4 weeks
co-bed (baby in your bed) - from 3-4 weeks because the house was too cold and he kept kicking off his blankets
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night - sometimes during the first few weeks, would try and put him back in the moses basket where poss as was afraid of squishing him
let baby sleep in his/her room from days old -no

fed lying down - from about a week old
fed sitting up - for the first week. I kept falling asleep though, so thought lying down safer as well as more restful