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He slept through the night 🥳🥳🥳🥳
HE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

18 weeks old. Usually feeds every 3-4 hours religiously, day and night. Dream feed last night at 10.30pm and he’s still asleep 😍

I’m very aware that this may be a one time thing but for just now, this Mummy is rested 🙌🏻😅😅

That's wonderful!

My six month old woke at 5.50am - just given her a feed and she's gone back to sleep....I'm wide awake now of course!

(Sorry that should say 5.30!)

@niki26 I’m wide awake too 🤣 DS asleep in Snuzpod to one side and DH asleep on the other side...me in the middle enjoying the peace and quiet too scared to move incase I wake either of them 🤣
DS usually gets up at 7am so we’ll see if we make it to then!

My 18 weekend also just slept through the night! I'm still breastfeeding so woke up with boobs like melons, debated waking her to feed for my own comfort but decided against it. Was quite pleased when she naturally woke though.
Fingers crossed for tomorrow night for us all

@choosername1234 I never thought I’d be jealous of that feeling but our BF journey came to an abrupt end at 14weeks 😭 he had bad reflux and decided to completely refuse the boob. Expressed every 2 hours day and night for a week to try going down the route of bottle feeding expressed milk but my supply just tanked 😓
He’s absolutely fine and doing so much better now but I’m still gutted 🤣
Fingers crossed for tomorrow night! 🤞🏼

Ooooh I remember this feeling so well!! It is the BEST FEELING. For us she didn't start sleeping through every night afterwards and I was bit gutted when the next night wake happened as I assumed the sleep through was a one off then, but actually she did start doing it occasionally from that point and then more and more often until it was pretty much the norm within a month or two! Really hope this is the beginning of good sleep times for you!

I actually also clicked on your thread because I'm also bursting with pride and excitement and will share with you now because I just have to! My LO has had a couple of settling in sessions at nursery and hated it 😢. I've tried settling her to an activity and moving away slightly but she just grizzles constantly, looks around frantically for me, runs over to cling to my leg, tugs my hand to make me follow her. She keeps putting her hands over her ears as well- she's 2 and 3 months and has spent half her life in lockdown with just me and her dad at home, she's not used to other kids at all which is why we wanted her to start nursery but I was starting to wonder about giving it up as a bad job. I left her for 10 mins last time in the hope she'd settle but she screamed the whole time. But her dad took her yesterday and I was so nervous to hear how it had gone - she came running in with a huge grin and said 'daddy had a cup of tea! I stayed with the lady!' I've never seen her look so proud of herself and now my heart is a puddle. Apparently she was really good and actually chatted to the play leaders and was wandering round having fun with the activities. Still a bit wobbly on and off but what an improvement!

Anyway I'm telling anyone who'll listen now so apologies for boring you but thought we can share our joy and pride! Motherhood can be rather lovely sometimes can't it 😃

@Jennyz123 oh bless her 🥰 well done little one!!! Separation anxiety is going to be such a huge thing for lots of children after this lockdown so I completely agree about getting her into nursery!! Once she’s fully settled she’ll absolutely love it ❤️

I’m already dreading this with DS and he’s only 18 weeks old 😓 DH works offshore for 3 or 4 weeks at a time and we have no local support bubble (plenty of family close by but none that are being covid safe 🙄) so DS goes those 3 or 4 weeks literally only interacting with me 😓 Takes him a day or 2 to warm up to DH when he comes home so hoping to get him out interacting with others soon 🤞🏼

Ah that's really hard. It's just not normal for kids growing up with no real noise and bustle - when our little girl was tiny we didn't have a hectic social life by any means as she would only sleep in the cot after a certain point, but at least we could take her to coffee shops, pubs etc. It's terrible all these babies growing up in quiet houses not used to any other adults or kiddies during lockdown. But only a few more weeks to go now - our toddler group is re-opening soon which will be massive for us and I can't wait to start going to friends' houses again- I think my little one will struggle with it at first but she'll get there. Your little one is so tiny they'll be fine, I imagine it's more your sanity that's been affected by lockdown with a newborn!! When my little one started weaning one of the greatest pleasures in life was a massive frothy coffee in a lovely coffee shop where they always brought over my drink and a high chair and cooed over the baby while she demolished some Ella's Kitchen! Imagine the decadence 😃 that'll be you before you know it - hopefully feeling fabulously well rested as well after a lovely night's sleep! 👍

Yay, that's brilliant! We found it happened a few times a week initially (and you could never predict when!), then went to every night consistently within a few weeks. It's an amazing feeling, isn't it?!

@Jennyz123 That sounds incredible 😍🤣 we’re in Scotland so a wee bit behind in terms of things opening but hopefully it won’t be long for us either 🤞🏼🤞🏼 Will be lovely to get him to some baby classes 😊

@RidingMyBike It’s amazing 😊 certainly not expecting it to be every night straight away but once in a while would be amazing lol

It does surprise you suddenly when it happens, my 18 weeks old just randomly did some nights when he was 12 weeks old, now its 4/5 nights a week, they ll hopefully adjust and might just want bigger feeds during the day if it continues.

@1990shopefulftm 4/5 nights a week is the dream 🙌🏻Fingers crossed we get there at some point 😊

I nearly posted this last week. My 3 month old, who a month ago was waking me up about every 90 mins, went 8 to 6! She's now back to waking up once between 4 and 5 and going back to sleep but then she has been sleeping in to 7 or 8, so I can have a lie in!! (I'm not sure I don't prefer one wake up very early morning and then a lie in to through the night!)

It's the most amazing feeling, isn't it? And while DD didn't stick to going through, her sleep (and therefore mine) has definitely massively improved.

Brilliant! I’m very jealous, mine has been awake on and off since 2:45 😭

@Carolina24 I feel you 😓 tonight has been very different to yesterday’s dream sleep 🤣😅 he’s been awake on and off playing and fussing since about 1.30am but didn’t want a feed. Then just decided at 5.15am it was time for a feed 🙄🤣 he usually feeds religiously every 4ish hours, starting with a 7am wake up bottle so that’s out the window today 🙈 DH does NOT do well being woken up in the night, he’s like a stroppy 5 year old on broken sleep so he disappeared upstairs to our spare room at 1.45am 🙄

@110APiccadilly it’s amazing how much better just a little bit extra sleep can make you feel isn’t it?!