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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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Hayls · 16/04/2004 20:27

My dd is 11 weeks and over the past week has started going down at about 7.30, waking for a feed at around 4.30 or 5 then going back to sleep until around 8am. She sometimes wakes around 2am for 10 minutes or so but just lies making noises then goes back to sleep. She's breast fed and uses a sleeping bag- since we started using one she's definitely more settled during the night as she doesn't wake up cold with no covers!

Ghosty · 16/04/2004 20:58

Having said all of that in my last post DD slept last night from 11.30pm till 7am!!! Hurray!
I think the growth spurt thing is right ... she fed a lot during the day yesterday ... and had a huge late feed so that kept her going through ...
Toddlerbob ... you are so right (as usual ) ... I will not anticipate problems - just causes me stress!!!
I wonder if you can get grobags in NZ?

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marsup · 17/04/2004 21:09

Ghosty, I think you're right about b/fed babies waking more for feeding. But in general these stories are all so varied it is hard to conclude anything except that every baby's different, even in the same family. I'm pretty impressed, though, at the fact that everyone seems to know a fairly 'exact' timetable of waking/sleeping for their little ones - my ds never does the same thing 2 nights in a row. No, he is not a GF baby (GF doesn't believe babies like ds exist, from what I've read of her).

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rolymoly · 17/04/2004 21:50

This is a really interesting thread. A question for those of you whose babies didn't sleep through early--did you do anything to get them to change? Or did they just one day magically sleep through? I'm beginning to worry that dd2 won't sleep through without doing controlled crying, which I'd really hoped to avoid this time around. (And don't want to do yet anyway, as I can't be sure she's not waking up out of hunger at the moment.) She's 18 weeks and exclusively breastfed.

Also--what about the late night feed. I've mostly tried to 'dreamfeed' when I go to bed, but wonder if I'm actually disturbing her more and encouraging her to want to feed every 3-4 hours even while asleep by doing so.

Evita · 17/04/2004 21:58

Dd slept 8pm - 6am at around 10 weeks old. She was breastfed. It wasn't consistent though, she'd always have nights where she woke a bit more or slept a bit later in the morning. I think she first reliably slept through at around 6 months.

This is one of the things that always confused me about GF - she seemed to suggest that once a baby's done the magic 'sleeping through' they always will but I found dd went through good and bad patches. I always just fed her when she woke up, it made life easy for everyone and didn't seem to do any long-term harm as by 6 months she wasn't feeding in the night at all.

charliecat · 17/04/2004 22:01

My dd1 didnt sleep through the night regularly till she was about 5 and a half years old. Bottle fed screaming brat, wouldnt sleep through the day, or night or at any time liked screaming till she passed out with exhaustion many hours later, and then if a bird tweeted shedd wake up screaming again.
dd2 thankfully has slept through from about 4 weeks old and now at 3 and a half has only ever got out of bed at night twice and she was no problem to get to sleep either.
Different children do different things.
I tryed a million things with dd1 to get her to sleep, nothing worked, she still fights sleep now at 6 and a half and will never admit to being tired but she sleeps through 8ish to 7 ish now

elliott · 18/04/2004 12:59

ds1 never went 11pm to 6am - but he went from 7pm to around 1-2 from about 12 weeks, I think. He went through the night (7-7) around 5 months but we did leave him to cry at that stage.
ds2 heading the same way - now 19 weeks, exclusively bf, and went 11-6 a few times early on (around 8 weeks). Now I don't wake at 11 and he generally goes 7pm to 3-4am. I anticipate that he will probably need persuasion to drop the night feed but I'm giving him till 6 months...

rolymoly · 19/04/2004 09:43

I've cut out the 'dreamfeed' for the last couple of nights and it seems to be working: dd2 went 7-2 the night before last, then woke at 6.20; last night went 7-4 and then woke at 7. So I'm hoping she's moving in the right direction. The only problem is that dp and I have had to move into the spare room to achieve this, as dd2 (whose cot is in our room) was getting woken up by us moving around the room when we went to bed, especially if we turned a light on. We'll try moving back after a few more nights in the hope that she'll have got out of the habit of waking at 11 by then.

toddlerbob · 10/05/2004 02:12

Sorry for the late entry Ghosty but I know you can get grobags in Timaru, which means there might be a supplier in Auckland. Otherwise my mum is coming over soon (with a new grobag for ds) and I'm sure she could get you one too.

bunnyrabbit · 10/05/2004 12:06

ghosty/toddlerbob,
Grobag have an aussie website here and they have an NZ number on there.

DS slept 7 to 7, with an 11pm feed, from 8 weeks. Straight through from 12 weeks. Breastfed for 3 weeks then on to formula. I put him in baby bags as soon as he went into his cot at 5 weeks. Always fed quickly and went straight back down after.

Has only woken in the night twice since he was 8 weeks old. (he's now 8 months and has 5 teeth!).

Problem is, now I'm back at work, I get him up at 6.20, so this is the time he wakes at weekends!! Bummer.

inkstigmata · 11/05/2004 15:12

dd2 just turned 8 weeks and sleeps 7-7 with a wake-up feed at 10.30 (1/2 hour). She was waking at around 4-5am when she "suddenly" lasted until 6-7 about a week ago. It's a bit random though and sometimes she will wake earlier. If we give her a full feed (ff) at 4am or later it puts her right off her 7am feed, so we have started giving her a combination of water and a very small feed (provided she has eaten enough for her weight the prior day). This settles her on the nights she does wake and still lets her want the full feed at 7am.

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