Night time sleep

[Tryingno1]

How long does ur 12 week old sleep at night? What are her/his hours of sleep and waking?

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DC3 was sleeping 12h uninterputed again night, plus two 2 hour naps at 12 Welsh old.

DC4 was having 2 ish night feeds, waking frequently through the night. Daytime baps were 30-45 mins naps with 1h awake time between naps at 12 weeks.

Both were very good sleepers with healthy and independant sleep habits by 9 months

Focus only on your child without comparing.

At 12 weeks, we were only just cracking 3 hour chunks of sleep at night, so around 11-2, 2-5, 5-8 with small feeds inbetween. He was always a good napper, a good hour at around 10am and then shorter snoozes as and when throughout the day and into the evening (downstairs with us).

At 6mo He now goes to bed between 6.30-7 straight after bath and bottle (seriously flagging from about 5pm) and apart from a few strirrings usually between 7-8 for rocking, shushing, he'll sleep until 8-9am. We usually do a dreamfeed when we go to bed but we've forgotten a couple of times and sometimes he doesn't wake to feed.

Focus only on your child without comparing

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Fate did ur dc4 wake up refreshed after 30-45 Min naps

Mine has just started doing this last week but wakes up so cranky coz before he was doing 1-2 hour naps 3-4 times a day not sure wot happened
I decided to go with flo let him Wakes when he wakes

Results in yawning eye rubbing and crying very soon after awake as not had enough sleep. By end of day he was hysterical so I don’t want to do that to him again.

If u were putting him down after 1 hour awake time he must have been having 5ish naps a day?

Today I picked him up at end of sleep cycle and completed 45 Mins more on me
He’s happy and content so far

Not been able to do a single thing though as a result! So wondering if more frequent short Naps would be better?and also not resulting in him being on me?

Currently I put him down after 1hr 15 -30 as that’s all he can do. Maybe I put him down after an hour and let him have 4-5 shorter naps?

Mine has just started doing this last week... before he was doing 1-2 hour naps 3-4 times a day not sure wot happened...

Absolutely typical for this developmental stage.

Newborn stage = passive sleep that is relatively easy.
After the fourth trimester, so around 3-4 months = sleep becomes active, develops into cycles, requires effort to get your sleep and stay asleep.

Completely developmentally normal to have naps of 30-45 minutes. The way to ensure baby is well rested us to reduce awake time between naps. I could easily have 5, 6, 7 naps per day at that age.

I'd recommend keeping baps in something that moves (bouncy chair) so that you can try to bounce back to sleep at the end if the sleep cycle.

And u think more frequent naps are better than trying to extend the cycles by putting him on me for the remaining 45 mins to make an 1 plus nap

And u think more frequent naps are better than trying to extend the cycles by putting him on me for the remaining 45 mins to make an 1 plus nap

I honestly think you’re overthinking it a bit. If you pick him up and he goes back to sleep on you, great, let him sleep. If he doesn’t, he’s probably done napping. Babies are all different and they’re not robots, just go with the flow a little more it’ll be easier on you