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Do you think the sleep patterns babies develop in the womb stay with them once they're born?????

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MrsMar · 10/08/2007 13:45

I really hope so, my baby has got his body clock totally in synch with mine, he's just like me already!! I am so not a morning person but much more lively in the evening, and so is this LO... most mornings I haven't felt a peek out of him until at least 9.30.... even if I'm up earlier. And he spends at least an hour from 10pm to 11pm kickboxing!

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LucyJones · 10/08/2007 13:51

usually they are awke in the nght because you are still, lieing down etc, and asleep in the day because you lull them to sleep when you are out an dabout moving around.
But all newborns are awake in the evenings feeding feeding and more feeding

Ceolas · 10/08/2007 13:52

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MrsMar · 10/08/2007 13:53

Mine doesn't wake up at night at all, at least certainly not enough to make me feel it. Even when I go to the loo at night, while I'm settling down there's nothing. I really think he sleeps all night and late in to the morning

Or at least I hope he does

Mind you, I realise once he's born he'll be waking up at night to feed, I just thought it was funny that he's never awake early in the morning.... a real snoozer!

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MrsMar · 10/08/2007 13:56

ceolas... have I said something confusing? I don't think I've phrased it very well. I'm currently 35 weeks pg, and just going by the baby's movements, I think he wakes up really late in the morning. I just wondered if this is something that might carry on once he's born..

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midnightexpress · 10/08/2007 14:25

Ha! I wish.

Mine were both very quiet in utero and I now have a 21 mo who gets up on the dot of five and talks from then until he goes to sleep at about 8pm with brief breaks for a nap, food and to throw his toys in the general direction of his brother's head, and a 6 mo who wakes up every hour or so all night.

But I wouldn't change a hair on their heads. They're scrummy.

So, I certainly wouldn't bet my house on it mrsmar.

expatinscotland · 10/08/2007 14:26

NO!

My two were so active my bump would move.

Now they sleep for Scotland.

Dinosaur · 10/08/2007 14:31

No, definitely not.

Ceebee74 · 10/08/2007 14:38

MrsMar - a good positive story for you. MY Ds sounds exactly like your baby whilst in the womb. He never woke me up with movements in the night - 6am was usually the earliest and he was always really active in the early evenings (towards the end of my pg, I had high bp and spent an evening in hospital having my bp taken and the baby's movements monitored and the midwife was stressing cos he was wriggling constantly and vigorously for about an hour - she made me stay there until he calmed down )

Anyway, since he has been born, he has been a fantastic sleeper - used to wake only once for a feed during the night from day one and then this stopped at 3 weeks and he slept through - and has been a brill sleeper ever since (now 13 months).

So I have often thought that his pattern was set in the womb.

Mellin · 10/08/2007 14:51

From my experience, no way! My baby was very calm in the womb and I was never woken by her at night. As a newborn she was feeding all through the night and day and now at 9 months still isn't a great sleeper.

Babies sleep patterns seem to change all the time, so just because you have a good/crap sleeper now doesn't mean it will continue. That's what I keep telling myself anyway.

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MrsMar · 10/08/2007 14:52

oooh ceebee you've given me hope!!! I was starting to wilt with midnightexpresses story!! I'm so bad in the mornings, I was really hoping I've passed this on to my boy so when he's born he's just like me, likes his lie ins!!! hahahaha I'm living in cloud cuckoo land aren't I?

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MonkeyBear · 10/08/2007 22:13

In late pregnancy, I was woken at around 3am every morning by DS2 kicking around, and lots of period-like pains too. I was convinced he was going to be born at 3am - and he arrived at 3.02am. He is now nearly 3 and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times he hasn't woken up crying at 3am since he was born....

Flibbertyjibbet · 10/08/2007 22:18

DS1 didn't do much moving in the night, and not much till about 10am the next morning. In fact from when I'd got familiar with the movements I used to start worrying every morning till I felt the kicks, which usually co-incided with the office toast/bacon butty order being delivered.
He has the same patterns now. Out like a light at bedtime, sleeps till late if we let him, but will get up if bribed with food...

DS2 just doesn't seem to need much sleep at all but I don't remember him being too active at night or anything when pg.

Rainbowdays · 11/08/2007 08:16

While pg with my ds, he started kicking 7am without fail, whether I was awake or asleep, in bed or up and around!!! The maximum deviation to this pattern was 10 minutes before or after 7am, but it was so consistant, that by the end of the pregnancy I did not even necessarily bother to look at the clock it was always 7am. Now at age 4 he still wakes up at 7am. It does not matter what time he goes to bed. However, now he is old enough to stay quietly in his room until "morning-time" so we do not have to get up to him now, but I do worry if I don't hear him awake at that time!!!!

So MrsMar - perhaps your LO will give you a lie-in each morning!!! Though it might be interesting if it persists at school-age!

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