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What age did your child sleep 11pm -6am?

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marsup · 14/04/2004 20:24

Just a quick survey for interest's sake. Any of you who have seen my other posts on sleep will have guessed that things are much better now for me even to be imagining a sleep from 11-6! But I admit I'm secretly hoping that not all mumsnetters have angels who slept 11-6 from 8 weeks old...

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mears · 15/04/2004 00:05

DS1 slept all night 8am-8pm at 9 weeks old - exclusively breastfed. He turned into a shite of a toddler at age 2 yrs and he has only turned pretty nice at age 17yrs

DS2 slept 12 hours at 12weeks.

DS3 was 8 months old before he slept through every night - had a dummy - think that was a problem.

DD1 (no.4) slept though at 4 months, woke for feeds around 5 months then slept through again. Exclusively B/F till 6 months.

The moral of this story - babies who sleep well from an early age are shitty toddlers and even worse when they hit puberty

mummytojames · 15/04/2004 00:13

thanks i will remember to tell my mother that one as she told me up until i was 2.5 i would wake every hour and half to play ad be wide awake so i can safely tell her because she didnt get much sleep is why i grew up to be the perfect daughter to which she will reply right when you going to start being the perfect bit then lol

2babies · 15/04/2004 00:52

DD-from 6 months - but then on again off again depending on teething, illness, etc.

DS-from 6 weeks, but on again off again for no apparent reason.

frogs · 15/04/2004 09:16

My first two slept 11pm till 5 am from the beginning, then feed and back to sleep till 8. Dropped the 5am thing at about three months.

dd2 slept 11pm till 6.30ish from about 4 weeks. Wasn't expecting it, but I'm not complaining!

The older two, contrary to what other posters have said, carried on being good sleepers (they're now 5 and 9). I think the crucial thing is learning to fall asleep by themselves in the very early days. Apart from that I put it down to luck and dh and me being EXTREMELY grumpy when woken in the night. I think they learnt it was more than their life was worth to want things in the night.

God, I sound like a complete cow...

suedonim · 15/04/2004 13:02

Ds1 slept 9pm-9am from three wks. He was f-fed from 3 wks of age. Ds2 slept 11pm-6am at about 6mths, dd1 was 5mths and dd2 was 2.5yrs. all b-fed.

muddaofsuburbia · 15/04/2004 13:37

ds (exclusively b/f) 7pm-7am at 9 wks. Although he was woken up for a feed at 11pm, so 11pm-7am at 9 weeks, plus the four hours previous to that IYSWIM. GF routine again...

Although he was b/f, we had to put him in his own room at 2 weeks because his snuffling was keeping us awake. We stopped disturbing him when we went to bed too.

Oh and btw, I've got a new name cos I'm trying to hide from the people who've discovered me in RL. Will have to leave a trail of subtle clues

Codswallop · 15/04/2004 13:42

no all my dsses vary

ds1 fab
ds2 average

and ds3 an abomination (but with a lovely smile)

papillon · 15/04/2004 13:51

this depresses me today... dd last nite managed a 5 hour stretch then 2 hour stretchs then up at 5.20am - and that is a good nite...
i think it is the teeth

papillon · 15/04/2004 13:51

oh she is 5.5months

Codswallop · 15/04/2004 13:51

How old?

Codswallop · 15/04/2004 13:52

I think she is very little to sleep through no matter what people telly you.
we gave ds1 a bottle at 11pm to keep himgoing

are you sure she isnt cold?

papillon · 15/04/2004 13:54

wollen underlay
duvet
aircell blanket
two layers of clothing... body and over body (whatever u call them) both long sleeved.

room at constant temp--- 20C

how much more do they need.

Babyannabel · 15/04/2004 13:57

We swear by sleeping bags. Mine were both about 4 months when they slept through.

papillon · 15/04/2004 13:59

trying not to sabotage everyones beautiful children who sleep stories. But I have wondered about sleeping bags -- she always kicks the blankets off. Anybody got recommendations on where to get them - I have not seen them in Switzerland.

bathtimebabe · 15/04/2004 14:03

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motherinferior · 15/04/2004 14:03

DD1 very suddenly got the hang of it at three and a half months - around the time she started getting formula, but at that point it would only have been a bottle in the day (she went on b/fing at night till she dropped it at 10 months). She got a bit gruesome when dd2 came along but seems pretty OK now (she's over three), albeit with occasional tendency to charge into Mummydaddy's room.

DD2 was much harder slower work but seems to be pretty OK now, at nine months, or rather she would be if she wasn't running a vile wakey-up cold. She is still breastfed, and was exclusively breastfed to six months.

Ghosty, when you say you feed her, are you sure she's hungry? If you left it a minute or two would she go back to sleep? Because that's what worked with dd1.

bathtimebabe · 15/04/2004 14:04

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Thomcat · 15/04/2004 14:13

8 Days!!!!!!!!
I know - she's a freak!!!!!!

kiwicath · 16/04/2004 08:13

Baby boy "slept thru" at 6 weeks - 7-7 with a dream feed at 10.30pm. Counting my blessings daily but well prepared for it all to turn tits up at some stage. You sound much happier Marsup - well done.

Ghosty · 16/04/2004 08:40

MMMMmmm, interesting range of stories here ..
Last night we had our first night of hell ... not bad considering she is 10 weeks old. For the first time EVER she woke at 2am and refused to go back to sleep until 4
Usually she is down by 7 ... I wake her for a feed at 10.30pm and she is back down by 11.15pm and then she has gone through till at least 4 but has been known to go till 6.30am.
Why would she wake at 2 suddenly? She fed really well the day before ... in fact she sneaked in an extra feed at 1pm ...
MotherInferior ... I do try to leave her but when she begins to cry rather than grumble I go to her ... Last night I tried to settle her without feeding but she wasn't having any of it ... as soon as I offered her a feed at 3.30am she fell on my breast like she had never had a meal in her life before and then went straight off to sleep like an angel.
I am really hating the dummy now as well ... she is getting far too dependent on it. For some reason I can see sleep problems developing in the future .... don't know why ....

Not sure I am ranting on the right thread but hey ho ...need to get it off my chest!

suedonim · 16/04/2004 12:51

You dd's been poorly, hasn't she, Ghosty? Maybe she's making up for lost time and having a growth spurt. Hope you get back to your usual routine asap!

Heathcliffscathy · 16/04/2004 13:30

papillon grobag are the best (imo) available from here bathtimebabe, i felt just like you, i had ds in babygro (long sleeves) with no vest underneath...he had done fine, much better not to be too hot this was in 2.5 tog which is fine for most of the year (lower tog on hot days in summer). hth

hinnigan · 16/04/2004 13:58

7 weeks old, bf - formula at 10:30pm feed

toddlerbob · 16/04/2004 19:44

Ghosty - sounds like a growth spurt. Feed her, you'll only tire yourself out more staying up trying to comfort her (and probably waking both of you up properly in the process). Do what works now, you don't know what "problems" you will have in the future, so don't try to anticipate them and make more work for yourself.

Homsa · 16/04/2004 20:16

DS (bf) used to wake 3 times a night until he was about 7 months. I think this was because he was such a poor feeder and just not eating enough during the day. At 7 months he started to eat loads more during the day (probably because he had started to crawl and was much more active) and cut back to one feed per night. And now at almost 10 months he's finally cracked it and slept 10pm-6am for several nights!!!
I'm ever so pleased it's worked out like this - I was starting to feel I should be doing something so he wouldn't have sleep problems later in life. But I didn't like the idea of CC and I'm really glad he's worked it out for himself!