Can a 12-week old sleep too long at night?!

[louisdog]

This is going to sound like I am quite crazy asking this rather than just enjoying it but I am an anxious first-time mum...

My baby is 12 weeks old tomorrow, and weighs 12lbs, she is bottle fed.

Two or three weeks ago she started "sleeping through" from say 11 or 12 until 5 or 6 or which was brilliant.

The last three nights though she has slept from 11pm until 830, when I have actually got up and fed her before she cried for food. (She was awake and smiled at me when she saw me.) Is she sleeping too long? Seems like an awfully long time to go without walking up, is it normal and I am just lucky?! She is fine in herself and feeding really well in the day, happy, smiley and active.

Any advice please, is this ok? Sorry to ask such a daft question!

(Baby sleeps in a bedside cot next to me, btw.)

Thanks!

[gloria2088]

my 12 week old sleeps 11-5 but hoping that when he goes on to solids things will improve as he is a v hungry baby...

[weeblueberry]

DD1 slept through from 6 weeks and for ages I routinely 'woke' her to feed her at midnight until one day DP suggested we leave her and see if it made a difference. It didn't and she slept from 9-9 from then on in until she moved slightly from 7-7 which was amazing.

DD2 is 12 weeks and goes from 10-3 then has a second feed at about 530 then sleeps til 7. Not as good but given that she drops back off immediately I can't really complain

[PollyDolly88]

Hi, this thread popped up as I have been having the same dilemma with my 8 week old son (bottle fed). My son has always been a very good sleeper (from birth) and two nights ago we decided to move his bedtime earlier to 6.30pm as he was screaming the house down and obviously extremely overtired by his normal 7.30-8pm bedtime. He was a lot calmer and happy to self settle in his cot after a 5oz bottle. He uses a dummy so we regularly use this to soothe him back to sleep (I know some people may not agree but it works for us!) so when he stirs in the night I always give the dummy a chance to settle him for a minute or so before we jump up to grab a bottle. After a slight stir from him we noticed we were getting him up, changing his nappy, feeding him without him even opening his eyes or crying which sounds crazy so after much research we decided to try just leaving him two nights ago to "let us know when he's hungry". He feeds every 2 - 2.5 hours in the day (4-5oz) and good weight (already in 3-6 months clothes!!!) I've read a lot about "babies will let you know" etc so I felt confident that he would, but after a restless night of stirring that came and went (no crying or even close to it!) my usually happy, alert boy woke up the grumpiest baby ever!! He was irritable, overall sleepy and his morning nappy was no way near as wet as it should have been. So last night, I WOKE HIM up at 12pm as all my mummy instincts told me so, and he nailed a whole 5oz bottle all the time fast asleep with his eyes closed and went straight back down in the cot. He stirred again at 5am and I did the same. His nappy was as wet as expected this morning but just wanted to say that NOT every baby will tell you or cry in the night for food (my son obviously loves his sleep!!) the only mistake I made this morning was me trying to change his very wet nappy at 5am for fear of nappy rash/leakage as it had been on very long but he was absolutely fine and if I had left him then he would have carried on sleeping another hour I reckon :( (highly recommend co-op nappies btw!!) hope this helps any mummies of daddies out there looking for advice/ideas xxx