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2 week old sleeping through the night

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Carriesdad · 05/09/2017 21:06

My DD is 17 days old and last night she slept from midnight until 6am. While I am eternally grateful for her thoughtfulness at giving us a night off as it were, after about 3 hours I was getting up every 30-45 mins to check she was still breathing/alive etc. Am I being para, or should I rejoice that she slept so long and next time just go with it?

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DesignedForLife · 05/09/2017 21:27

Enjoy it and pray it wasn't a fluke!

(Assuming she's all well and good during waking times of course, no temp, alert & responding as normal)

ElizabethShaw · 05/09/2017 21:28

Has she regained her birth weight? Healthy and alert at other times?

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Carriesdad · 05/09/2017 21:53

Yeah, she's regained her birth weight (and a little more) and temp is good, alert when awake during the day and she's chugging along fine. Fingers crossed it wasn't a fluke then!

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donajimena · 05/09/2017 21:57

Long may it continue. Mine (second) slept pretty much from birth. In the early days it was feed at roughly 9 then around 2 and sleep until 7. At 21 days a dream feed at 11 and through til 7. Never had you seen such a sprightly mother of a newborn
My first was a shocking sleeper. He still is at 14

AntiHop · 05/09/2017 22:04

My dd is 3 now so it's a while ago but I'm sure my midwife told me I has to wake my newborn every few hours to feed if she was asleep. I can't remember the exact details. I think it was every 3 or 4 hours until she was 4 or 6 weeks. Please talk to your midwife or health visitor.

TeddyIsaHe · 05/09/2017 22:06

Yes I was told to feed a tiny newborn every 3 hours, 4 at an absolute max and to wake dd up if she slept through that window. When they're so tiny you really can't skip a feed. I'm sure lots of people do and everything has been fine, but just going on what I was told a few months ago when I had dd in hospital!

TeddyIsaHe · 05/09/2017 22:07

By tiny I mean young, brains starting to cease functioning this evening!

waterrat · 05/09/2017 22:10

A friend of mine had this with her baby who ended up losing a lot of weight. I would check in with a midwife or HV about it...not that Health Visitors know much about babies..

justdontevenfuckingstart · 05/09/2017 22:10

My dd now 20 slept through from the first night, she then got jaundice because she wasn't feeding enough so I had to wake her for feeds. Maybe that was why?

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis · 05/09/2017 22:14

Wow! You'd think she'd be hungry!

Teddy I was told not to wake them at night, then they learn the difference between night and day.

SpinDry · 05/09/2017 22:17

My dd2 has slept through since a few weeks old. She's a dream compared to my dd1 who didn't sleep longer than 2 hours till she was 1.5! I did wake dd2 to feed though as she did have jaundice and long periods of no milk can make it worse.
For peace of mind get a Snuza Hero breathing monitor that clips to her nappy, it's wonderful as an alarm will go off if breathing isn't detected for a 5 seconds, I have real peace of mind knowing dd2 has got one on and it'll alert me if anything was to happen. She gets her rest as I'm not checking her as often in the night and I do sleep better too.
Enjoy it while it lasts! Dd2 is 15 weeks old now and still sleeping really through and is gaining weight beautifully, am bracing myself for 4 month sleep regression!

teaortequila23 · 05/09/2017 22:18

My DD now 3 also slept from 11pm till 5am (fed at 5 and slept again) every day from the day she was born till she was around 4months BEST THING EVER I didn't even feel like I had a newborn lol

DryIce · 05/09/2017 22:24

I have a 4 week old (sadly he has not yet managed more than a few hours sleep!) - but I was told if they've regained their birth weight to let them sleep without waking for feeds

donajimena · 05/09/2017 22:30

Don't worry too much about sleep regression. My second never regressed and my first didn't sleep to regress from.

Mumof41987 · 05/09/2017 22:31

I'd not hold ya breath . It could just be a one off ! If your ff then it's more likely they will sleep longer but I'd not be happy with a bf baby sleeping that long every night at such s young age . Sleep patterns change frequently in babies so one night sleeping through does not mean it will happen all the time

Barkingtrees · 06/09/2017 08:02

"Para"
What an awful word :/

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Carriesdad · 06/09/2017 08:52

I can think of worse words than "para".

"Twat" and "troll" are two that spring to mind!

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 06/09/2017 08:55

I think the advice is to wake a newborn after 4 hours. I seem to remember it was something about blood sugars dropping to low or something.

WivJammin · 06/09/2017 09:01

barkingtrees was there any need for that?

Barkingtrees · 06/09/2017 09:01

Calling someone a twat because they said they don't like a word.
Low very low .
Sleeping through is not 12-6 BTW

Barkingtrees · 06/09/2017 09:02

Was there any need to be called a twat for saying I don't like a word ?
I find the word very insulting to someone with mental health issues

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 06/09/2017 09:08

I find the word very insulting to someone with mental health issues

You can feel paranoid without having MH issues, the same as you can feel depressed without having clinical depression.

ElizabethShaw · 06/09/2017 09:13

A 5 or 6 hour stretch is the definition of sleeping through.

Foreverhopeful22 · 06/09/2017 09:16

If regained birth weight andfeeding happy during waking hours. Then don't wake her

I dreamed fed mine as she didn't wake but still took feeds

Maybe look into it, it's easy and I was happy she was feeding and sleeping

Google dream feeding

giveyouasmileandaperfectpass · 06/09/2017 09:54

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