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

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About to post questions...

forgot to say, he only started sleeping through when I stopped bfing him during the night - about 15mo

good thread, popsy. I was thinking of starting a similar one called "bad nights = co-sleeping? or co-sleeping = bad nights?"

DS is 6.5 months:
co-sleep - him in cradle for first week or so till i was blind with exhaustion (he'd be up every hour or so), then...
co-bed til he was nearly 3 months (slept from 11ish to 7ish getting up twice, mostly getting up and feeding him sitting up - saw alot of late night TV) then we got a 3 sided cotbed, then...
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night which worked so well at first. he'd sleep from 10 til 3 when i'd bring him in with us. then it was 2 then 1 then 12:30. now he'll stay in there for 45 minutes before waking up. He's been going through a bad sleeping phase since late December. but he's been teething. things are stating to get better. sometimes he'll sleep for 4 whole hours. WOW!
fed lying down at night (ALL NIGHT sometimes!)
fed sitting up during the day though sometimes we'll do lying down for naps.

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 Sometimes if we* fell asleep
let baby sleep in his/her room from days old no
fed lying down If feeding in the night
fed sitting up At other times

I think it'll be feeding lying down that's the problem - don't get as much?

co-sleep no

co-bed no

later in night - yes from 12-18 months

slept in his own room from 3 weeks

fed sitting up

DS now 19 months and still wakes 1-2 times/night. Generally awke from 5am as well

DS1 - co slept, fed sitting and lying etc. Woke every hour till I stopped feeding at 13months. Started sleeping through at about 2yrs 8months. No joke I can tell you!

DS2 - b/f till 10months. Woke 3/4 times a night. Did not co-sleep as ds didn't want it, prefered to sleep alone. Sleeps through about, well, ummmm, not very often, though last night after chicken pox treated with piriton only woke once between 8pm and 6.30am.

I think it just depends on the child, some are sleepers and some aren't.

Ds (first child)
Did you:

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed)Yes
co-bed (baby in your bed) Occasionally
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night No
let baby sleep in his/her room from days old No
fed lying down No
fed sitting up Yes
Ds couldn't sleep longer than 2 hours without crying and sucked to sleep and then vomited most of it back up when put to lie down or raised up -nightmare. He did once sleep for 4 hours in the day. He also slept through the night once in the first 11 months. He started doing it regularly after that but by then I was heavily pregnant with dd! He, like someone else's child, liked to sleep on my shoulder or on my tummy and face down. Breast fed for the first 7 months then partly self weaned and partly weaned by me as I was pg and wanted some rest. He was exclusively breast fed for the first 4 1/2 months.

Dd (second child)
Did you:

co-sleep (baby in same room but not in your bed) Sometimes
co-bed (baby in your bed)Mostly, I think
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night No
let baby sleep in his/her room from days old No
fed lying down No
fed sitting up Yes
She was much, much, better, though had impeccable timing and would wake for feeding just as I was about to eat. I wish I'd had 2 like her, though. She was breastfed for 10 months, exclusively for the first 4 1/2 months.

DS slept through at 13 months.

(Well he did once sleep through at around 8 months but it was fluke and /or cruel joke).

co-sleep - Only until 8 weeks old
co-bed - see below
co-sleep/co-bed later in the night - Always started in own room, co-slept from 2nd / 3rd feed until 4-5 months, thereafter always in own room from 7 - 6.30am unless ill.

Fed lying down - yes, always from around 2 months
fed sitting up - initially yes, until I fell asleep with DS dangling precariously from my arm over edge of bed, & then we quickly got the hang of lying down feeding!

After 4-5 months, lying down feeding took place on a makeshift bed on floor in his room, where I would go, feed, put him back in cot, go back to bed (mostly, unless v. knackered).

I think I'd say DD slept through at around 8m (although she did a decent stretch for a few nights at 15wks but it was a blip!)

She was getting up for (very brief) bfs 3x a night at around 5m at which point we started offing a dummy instead and this settled her back to sleep (such a relief that DH could see to her in the night!) Still some night time bfs but not as many. From 5-8m she started sleeping longer before needing a dummy (didn't go to bed with one) and now she can go to 5am or maybe all night without needing it to settle her back to sleep.

I think we have come off 'average' in terms of how this all went. However, I daren't read the other thread and hear about these long stretches of sleep people were able to get!

co-sleep - did this for 5 months
co-bed later in the night - happened a handful of times only

fed lying down - didn't do it regularly until 5 or 6 months in, when I started doing the morning feed that way, but wish I'd done it sooner!

Ds2 has slept with me every night since he was born, he is now 18 mths and you can count the number of times he has slept through on one hand. He still feeds during the night most nights. Is this bad?

In cot in own room until 5 months, then co-sleep. Still co-sleeping with dd at 2.5 years.

Fed sitting up until 5 months, then fed lying down.

Slept through from 17 months, right after dd was completely weaned from bf-ing.

Dd is just very tricky with sleep. Not entirely related to bf-ing though I was shocked that stopping bf-ing resulted in her waking 3x an hour to sleeping through in a matter of weeks!

I don't think it is a co-incidence that DS slept through properly when I cut down BF to one feed a day (before bed), and he didn;t ever have much at that feed.

Didn;t I read somewhere once about BF babies do usually feed in teh night because that is when they put there order in for the next day i.e. night feeding is part of telling your body how much milk to make for the next day?

Or did I dream it in some sleep deprived hallucinatory moment?!

Their order.