Sleeping through?

[Serennos]

My 11 week old is ebf and his weight is tracking along the middle line on his weight chart in the red book. He's happy and alert when he's awake, so I have no worries about him.

He has started to sleep for 8 - 12 hours overnight, grumbling when his feeds should be, but not crying, and not waking up properly. Should I be waking him, do you think, or enjoying my extraordinary luck for as long as it lasts?

And will I ever not feel tired again??

enjoy it!and duck from all the MNers throwing bananas
(inc me!)

My (nearly) 11 week old has started doing the same thing, from what I understand quite a few babies do this at this stage but not all continue to do so! I have asked the HV, MNers, midwife if it will affect my milk supply and they have all said no so I am enjoying it while it lasts!

i would leave them, dont wake them, if baba is hungry he will let you know! your lucky! enjoy it, my little girl slept through like that from about 6 weeks old, and i never woke her, shes 7 months now and has a great sleep routine, she goes to bed at half 6 has a feed at 10.30 and sleeps through till 7am no problem, i dont know if you'll ever not feel tired again, im still tired all the time, but only cuz hubby snores lol, x

my dd slept thru from 10.30pm until 5am this morning for the first time - I'm enjoying it while I can and there's no way I was going to wake her! My boobs were incredibly full and quite painful by the time she did feed tho

My dd1 slept through the night from 5 weeks, just bf, but fed every 2 hours during the day.. However the others have been more like 6 months, and my ds2 11 weeks is awake 2/3 times each night! I wouldn't wake a sleeping baby if they feed well during the day.

be grateful. ds1 slept 7-6 at 13 wks. ds2 not till months and months, still wakes up for a feed once a week, and he is 1.5 !!

Mine did that at around that age- I woke him up at first (mainly because I couldn't sleep as my boobs felt like they were gonna explode!) but then decided whats the point-he'll wake up if he's hungry. It only lasted a couple of weeks then he was back to waking up twice a night. From what I've read it seems pretty common.

Enjoy it while you can. Not that I'm or anything. I have had several mums with babies a similar age or younger than mine telling me theirs are sleeping through.

Mine is most definitely not.

my DS1 is 13 weeks ebf and no sign of any intention to sleep through! Still wakes up several times a night,mostl for feeds,sometimes just for a comfort and cuddle. I don't really mind and am sure he'll settle with time...only slightly envious of friends and op whos ebf babies sleep through. I sometimes just watch and see if i can leave him but he doesn't settle himself. He very rarely cries,just squirms and grumbles with increasing frustration. If it gets to the point of him actually crying out he is heartbroken by this point. Normally has tears before this! Because of all this i am glad to hear other mners young uns also don't sleep through! Though this doesn't detract from my happiness for Serennos!

Definitely don't wake him. My 3 ebf babies slept through 11 or 12 hrs a night from 8, 10 and 12 weeks respectively (and didn't regress). Some of us are just very lucky and you should appreciate it!! I found it took about a month of them consistently sleeping through before I began to feel almost normal again and not quite so tired.

My (ebf) DD reliably slept an 8 hour stretch between about 11 and 19 weeks, at which point things went tits up. She finally began sleeping all night at about 10 months. So I would leave him be, provided that he is content and gaining weight and ENJOY!

Crikey, this thread gives me hope! DS2 is nearly 10 weeks and still waking at 12, 3 and 6 (on a good night, sometimes it's 2 hourly!) and I'm shattered. He's just under 50th centile (was 9th centile when born) and feeds constantly in the daytime.

Cannot wait until I can have more than 2 hours stretch of sleep at a time, heaven!

Anyway, in response to the OP original question, I'd say definitely let your LO sleep and enjoy it whilst it lasts.

LOL Oblomov I read your 1.5 yo as 15!

OP just enjoy it, it might pass it might not, but it would be madness to wake him up at night.

enjoy it, my daughter was doing this until last week only getting up for a 5min feed once in 12 hours but since last week she has been getting up 3 times a night again. I am feeling the strain and looking forward to longer sleeps again!

I wouldn't wake her. DD (bfed) slept through from 7pm - 6pm from around 6 weeks. I wasn't comfortable with her going that long without a feed so I'd dreamfeed her at 10pm. I did fall asleep a couple of times and forgot to dreamfeed but that didnt make a difference, still just woke at her normal time.

Still sleeps like a dream, 7pm-7am now though.

So if you do feel like I did (as a first time mum, I feel guilty over every little thing!), you could try a dreamfeed just before you go to bed? Probably not necessary though.