Sleeping habits past 3 months

[CasDk]

For the first three months of my baby's life I haven't worried about his sleeping routine, as I now it's all over the place. He usually does a long stretch of three hours first at night, followed by waking up every 1.5 hours. I think this is normal, but just wanted a bit of advice around how I can start to get longer stretches in the second part of the night as he gets older? He is coming up to 12 weeks now and I just wanted to reassurance that this does get better really too! From 6am he always gets really noisy too, making stretchy movements and the sound effects to go with it. Thank you

No advice as I'm in the same boat. DC is nearly 5 months and has only slept for 7 hours once. Since 3 months her sleeping has reduced in length to 2-3 hours. I've tried formula before bed but that's not making a difference

My daughters 4 months and I’ve come to the conclusion you can’t change it! My daughter does about 4 hours stretch first then about every 2. But we’re in the regression now which has turned everything upside down anyway! So even if you fight it for another few weeks you might hit the regression and itll change anyway.

I’ve tried and it wasn’t worth the hassle. Same with naps..they’re sill tiny so I figure it’ll sort out eventually!

Thanks both. Fingers crossed things improve for us all when they're a little older!

My dd started going to one wake up between 7am-7pm at 3 months whrn she went into her own room.

At 5 months she dropped her night feed and slept through 12-14hrs.

She's just about to turn 1 now and still doesn't wake up in the night

Lazyopuppy - how did you achieve this? Was it through a solid routine? How about daytime naps? Thank you!

She naturally started to drop the feeds. Once she was in her own room, if she woke up i'd always wait 5 mins or so until she was actually crying to go into her to give her a chance to go back to sleep herself. Most of the time it was half hearted whinging.

Day time naps took longer, we started doing them in the cot making sure she was really tired and ready. She also has a blanket to cuddle and a comforter.

Sometimes even now when she is with my mum we give her a small toy to the travel cot to distract her while she gets sleepy as she took longer to be happy sleeping in the travel cot.

We don't have a solid routine she goes to bed somewhere between 7-8, sometime she has a bath, sometimes a story. But she always has a bottle upstairs in her room with us then we put her down.

Thank you Lazypuppy

My DS (now 3) slept 9pm - 6am at least from 10 weeks, and by 12 weeks I think we were moving his bedtime early as his wakings were getting later. He was in his own bedroom at 12 weeks, which I do think helps and isn't for everyone at that age.

Similar to PP we stopped jumping to pick him up just because he was awake, and would only do it if he actually cried. Also started putting him down awake from a young age (this was accidental as he woke up once during a transition, but I think it helped so much with teaching him to go off on his own).

For what it's worth, don't fear the alleged "regressions". The only thing that's every affected my DS' sleep is teething and illness. Sleep patterns may change, of course, but the regressions imply it's one size fits all at certain ages, which IMO is rubbish.

Expecting DS2 next month and dreading the lack of sleep as I've been so well-rested the last 3 years!

Lookingforadvice123 - that is amazing! My son is almost 12 weeks and averages 3/4 night feeds! But I might try the waiting thing to see if he is actually hungry or just awake. Good luck with number two!

My dd is 5 months now and luckily she's never been a really bad sleeper. But we decided to move her from her moses basket to her cot in our room about 2 weeks ago and she has been sleeping amazingly! we put her up there for naps too and put her up on her own in the evening about 7 30 and then we go up a few hours later.