Sleeping through at 4 months

[Layla72]

hi was looking on the net, has anyone used the drhull.com Night night common sense sleeping DVD? He advocates 'activity, eat then sleep' - has anyone made the transition from eat activity sleep (which seems to be what the majority say to do)??? Also anyone found the DVD useful?

Don't bother! Sleeping through for more than about five hours at night at 4 months is unnatural - babies are still very hungry at night at this stage.

I am sorry, but thats an odd comment!!! lots of babies sleep through at 4 months, and parents shouldnt be pooparhed for wanting babies to seep through at the point either!

Surely its better to say 'some babies are ready at 4 months, and some arent?'

OP - not tried that wy. I just picked the best Babywhisperer and GF bts and Alf slept through at 7 weeks. Hope you get to nice sleep filled nights soon.

Oh yes, the old activity, eat then sleep. So much better than the eat activity sleep. Or the sleep activity eat. Mind you, there is always the sleep, eat activity.

Sorry OP, I'm not taking the piss out of you but more the people who write these books/do these DVDs. The idea that one kind of routine would work for most babies is just a bit bonkers imho.

4 months isn't a great age for sleeping through - they tend to have growth spurts/developmental things going on that make it pretty difficult.

Unnatural to be sleeping through at 4 months? My DS is 19 weeks and on Monday he suddenly went from waking every four hours to sleeping for 7/8 hours overnight.

I agree with MrsGravy - most of these books/DvDs that tell you how your baby should live their life are a bit mental. As I repeatedly yelled at the paediatricians in hospital, "babies don't believe in rules, let alone follow them!"
Every baby is different. Yours will probably settle into a routine by themselves soon

Agree, to say sleeping through at 4 months is 'unnatural' is a bit strong in my view. DD slept through from about 10 weeks (and was BF) and now at 10 months sleeps til about 8.30am if we don't wake her. I did cluster feed up to her going to sleep and i think that maybe helped? Some babies just like to sleep. I don't know how helpful DVDs etc are and they will all find their own rhythm eventually. I just think whilst we thinks it's great now that she loves to sleep, we might not be so keen when she's a teenager! [hgrin]

DD slept through the night from 10pm to 6am from 14 weeks.

And wasn't I smug about that.

Until DS came along and didn't sleep through until he was 2.5yo.

:o

Don't waste your money on a book. Do what you think suits your baby.

Not sure about unnatural, DD is 10 wks and will sleep from 7pm till around 3am most nights. Then a feed then an extra few hours till between 6 and 7.

Should have said she is EBF.

My DD slept like that at 10 weeks MrsC2010. I shan't tell you what she's like now at 4 months for fear of scaring you half to death

Haha, I do keep telling DH that it could/prob will all change when we hit teething etc! Am trying to stovck up on sleep now.

They're all different. DD1 slept 10pm till 7.30 am from 10 weeks - fully BF. DD2 didn't - had a feed at 11.30 and 2.30 until she was almost a year, at which point we did pick up/put down with her and had her sleeping through within three nights - but only because she was ready for it.
The feeds were not snacky comfort feeds, they were full on, both sides in about 15 minutes then straight back down - she was just very hungry and growing very fast.
Oddly enough DD1 had a very bad night waking phase round about age 2 - DD2 kept on sleeping through once she'd started. I never bothered with books and DVDs.

Octaviapink what bollocks!

Both my dcs did this and were EBF and have grown up to be perfectly natural children, thanks!

Nice of you to disagree with me so politely, SauvignonBlanche. Netiquette pass you by, did it?

take the lead from your baby IMO - I did this with DS1 and now doing this with DS2. It's less stressful for everyone if you just relax about it. Honestly!

DS1 slept through from about 5 mo. DS2 is 13 weeks old and still up twice during the night for feeds (also BF, same as DS1). They sleep through when they're ready. It's not really something that should be forced IMO.

Every baby is different Im on no 4 and (whispers in case it changes) she has slept from 22:30 till 07:40 (when I wake her in time for the schoolrun) from 6 days old.
DD from 6 weeks, DS1 from 8 months and DD2 from 3 weeks. All were exclusively breastfed and big babies so according to 'logic' should have been eating evry 2-3 hours etc.

I looked at DrHull yesterday as I googled hiccuppy babies. Whilst readin ghis/her other stuff I decided it was b***ks as there was stuff written like 'all babies have, without exception, birthmarks. White babies all have stork bites' then there was a caveat saying 'at least I cannot recall seeing one that hasn't. What rubbish. My baby has no birthmarks and no stork mark. I decided that the author was speaking rubbish.

Not unnatural in my opinion. My DD is 16 weeks and last night slept from 9pm until 7.30 am.

However, the night before she woke twice. It's still very random and of course all babies are different.

Plus I can feel some of her teeth starting to come through so Im sure it will all change again [hgrin]

every baby is different, mine at 8 weeks from 11pm to 6am then by 4 moths 11-7 and by 7 moths from 8pm-7pm but I believe in a routine not the GF type of regimental routine but same time everyday.
also as DH snores bad we put her in own room early as he was waking her ( with monitor of course)I was lucky as DD very contented but all babies are different and telling anyone yours should be doing this or that is just unhelpful, I would never wake a sleeping baby if she was hungry she would wake but sometimes I think babies wake in the night and if left a few minutes go back to sleep, just like us we wake momentarily in sleep cycle but dont need fed

I agree Sarah - I heard my DD wake a few times last night but each time she settled herself back off to sleep. She is also in her own room BTW.

Having said that she does sometimes need a feed.