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Sleeping through the night

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Mand1A · 31/08/2007 22:12

Hi, I've a 10 week old who has suddenly started sleeping through the night. It's great, but I didn't have this with 1st baby, and feel a bit guilty anout him not having night feeds - but he doesn't seem to cry in hunger...! Does anyone else have any comments on this?

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seeker · 26/09/2007 00:06

Some babies do - some don't. I really don't think you can change the way they are made. Neither of mine slept through (in their own beds) til they were 2!

PregnantGrrrl · 26/09/2007 01:07

Keeps fingers crossed that new baby does this

DS started sleeping right through properly at 12mths. I DESERVE an early sleeper-through this time i reckon!

xXxamyxXx · 26/09/2007 01:10

think so best of luck with that

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miniegg · 26/09/2007 21:36

allyne, i'm also a new mum with a nine week old (bottle fed) DS and have had the same problem - he sleeps really soundly from 7pm, and has to be woken to eat at 11pm, but then wakes really hungry at 3am.
however, in his case we haven't had a problem with him taking the full bottle at 11pm - he just seems to get hungry again in the night anyway!
are you turning up the lights nice and bright (without blinding the poor little thing!) when you feed at 11pm? give her time to "come to" after waking her up - maybe go and change her nappy, or talk to her for a bit, till she's quite nice and awake before you try and start the feed. (you can turn the lights back down low and be nice and quiet for the last few minutes of the feed, so she falls back to sleep once he's eaten.)
in the last week or so my DS has started dropping his 3am feed, though sadly he's not exactly "sleeping through." (he sleeps very fitfully and noisily after about 4am.) he did this himself without me really trying to force the issue - maybe your baby will do the same when she's ready? You don't say how much she weighs. Apprently babies need to be at least 11lb before they can really go through the night.
the danger of you dropping the 11pm feed is that she'll wake at, say, 1am, and then again at 5am, which is worse than just doing an 11pm feed before you go to bed, and a 3am...

tryingtoleave · 27/09/2007 07:25

Enjoy it! You don't know how long it will last. My ds slept through at 8 weeks but started waking again at 16 weeks. He's now 15 months and I've given up counting the number of times he wakes at night...

vesela · 27/09/2007 08:43

Like cheeset's sister, I gave my DD a lot of milk before she went to bed. I would feed her almost hourly in the evening, and then a breastfeed before her bath, and then another straight afterwards before she went to bed. (I didn't give her water during the night, though - I read you weren't supposed to give very young babies water?)

Anyway, she slept up to 11 hours at night. She doesn't any more - she's just started a 6-month waking at night thing - but I'm glad I got the sleep before.

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