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If your breastfed baby wasn't sleeping through by 7 months, when did they start?

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CantSleepWontSleep · 19/09/2006 08:07

There are 5 of us on our post natal thread who are still having to bf during the night, but all of our RL friends seem to have babies that sleep through, so I'm curious to find out others' experiences. Also, when they did start going through, had you changed anything, or did it just happen by itself?

Oh, and if Popsycal comes on this thread then I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and go la la la la la!

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BarefootJasnem · 19/09/2006 08:09

Sadly csws (being on of the above mentioned five) my dds both started to sleep through only when I stopped breast feeding at 8 months.
I am not planning on stopping yet this time round.

I think everyone in RL lies

Twiglett · 19/09/2006 08:10

coming up to 11 months for DD

happened by itself

but she'd have something like a 5min feed in the night and go straight back to sleep

tissy · 19/09/2006 08:11

You really want the truth?

My dd didn't have an uninterrupted night till she was 2 though I had long since stopped feeding her at night (that happened around 12 months, I think).

munz · 19/09/2006 08:12

we've had one night and then a horror! lol - not BF at night but am by day so I think stoppin all together isn't gonna do a right lot for my boy!

how many times are you up? thankfully now (l;ast two night) it's only been once here.

Flamesparrow · 19/09/2006 08:12

My desperation is shining through....

trinityshiftingherleatheryarse · 19/09/2006 08:13

dd1 was bf till she was 14 months and she didn't sleep through till she was about 2 1/2

dd2 was bf till she was 9 months and at 18 months she is a nightmare for sleeping

belgo · 19/09/2006 08:14

MY dd is one tommorrow and still wakes up at night for bf, but I'm going to try and stop feeding her at night because it's wearing me out. I'm just thankful that she feeds and goes back to sleep; my first dd would wake up crying and wide awake at all hours of the night, in fact she's two and a half, and she still cries at night.

ProfYaffle · 19/09/2006 08:15

9 months, like Twig's dd she only woke up for a 5 min feed and then straight back to sleep and had been doing that for 3 or 4 months.

I got her to sleep through by turning the baby monitor off. If she bellowed properly I could still hear her but I wasn't waking up at a small whimper. To my surprise she didn't bellow, just settled herself down to sleep.

Flamesparrow · 19/09/2006 08:16

See this is the thing - he's not having long feeds during the night, just loads of them. I tried offering water, which he guzzled, slept for about 10 mins then sobbed until I fed him (which was a huge feed).

DD was sleeping through early, but she was a totally different child as well as being bottlefed so I don't know which variable did it.

Flamesparrow · 19/09/2006 08:17

Oooh that an extra question... where are/were they sleeping?

munz · 19/09/2006 08:19

I think it's the child flame - as I say we're mix feeding a tthe minute - Joey doesn't have night boobie unless he's drank all the bottle and wakes again later (bad mummy alert!). for us the whole bottle/boobie thing doesn't seem ot m,atter - althou I do have a lazy little boy by night - who won't suckle properly and uses me as a dummy! so with the bottle he gets his milk and I can see it - the boob he wakes again after about an hour wanting more

(althou we have other issues at the mo re waking screamin 2 hours after feeding on some nights)

munz · 19/09/2006 08:20

joey's in his own room next to ours, no moniter only real crys/chaatering I hear.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 19/09/2006 08:21

Hmmm - not quite the messages of hope that I was hoping for!

Munz - my DD is nowhere near as bad as she used to be now that her reflux is under control - it's usually only once or twice a night these days. She had a run of 4 nights sleeping through a few weeks ago, but hasn't managed it even once since!

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sancerre · 19/09/2006 08:21

Still waiting at 19 months....I can count on one hand the number of times he's slept through
He goes to bed (with some hassle and resisting!) in his own room, ends up in bed with us anywhere between 11pm and 3am. Am totally fed up of it, but not prepared to do cc, so am sticking it out (and planning revenge sleep-sabotage when he's a lazy teen...)

hermykne · 19/09/2006 08:22

8 and a half months
he fed at 6.30/7 bed at 7.40 or so and slept thru til 8 sometimes later.
i deliberately feed him a bit back from bedtime.
he woke the first few nights in the middle but after 2/3 that was it, and has been fab since now 2+2

BarefootJasnem · 19/09/2006 08:22

So I'm just kidding myself that it will get better when I stop bf then?

DD1 was in her own room from 6 months and still woke for 2 more,
DD2 was in our room until 11 months, but slept through from 8

Boy is in our room and will be for ?(ever) as we have nowhere else for him to go.
He up every 3-4 hours and regularly starts his day at 5.30

kama · 19/09/2006 08:23

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munz · 19/09/2006 08:24

LMAO@ Scarn! lol - I like that idea! he he he! banging pots and pans as well after the first heavy night drinking! he he!

csws - i've resided to the fact he can do it - and will do it again - one day! lol - just hope it's one day soon! lol.

fs - just see you were up so much last night (((hugs))) possibly DS is after more solids?

Flamesparrow · 19/09/2006 08:25

I'm thinking he'd be better away from the milk, but if he isn't then DD will be being disturbed several times a night....

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munz · 19/09/2006 08:27

we tried that flame - the whole cold turkey on feeds at night - and for 3 nights solid he would not sleep - quite litterally I was up every hour on the hour so we personally didn't see the point and caved (probably not good for the boy with mixed messages but least he settled back down a bit)

munz · 19/09/2006 08:28

(is it teeth even? we had a nightmare with the town front ones coming thru - I swear next door thought I was killing the boy!) lol. must have been up a good 4/5 time in the night.

guppinbuppin · 19/09/2006 08:28

DS will be ONE on saturday and he has never slept through.

Flamesparrow · 19/09/2006 08:30

I'm trying to feed him up more. He's already on 3 meals a day, so I'm thinking 3 meals and some snacks... and possibly more food when he wakes a 10pm!!!