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Sleeping through the night

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Rba2022 · 31/08/2022 10:57

How do i get my two month old to sleep longer stretches at night? Currently he sleeps at 9pm, wakes for feed between 1.30-2.00am, sleeps again until 5am for another feed. Then sleeps, but wakes up at 6.30am.

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Hugasauras · 31/08/2022 13:01

He's too young to be worried about sleeping through the night. That's pretty good for a two-month old. You get some good chunks to sleep if you go to bed at 9 too! It'll just stretch naturally in time too.

Xiomara22 · 31/08/2022 13:04

That’s good for 2 month old! Mine is 20 months and has only in the last few weeks started sleeping through but still has the odd night where he wakes 2-3 times.
They’re waking for a valid reason at that young.
Bare in mind a lot of adults don’t sleep through either so society shouldn’t expect babies too either.

Dipsy12 · 31/08/2022 13:04

That's not bad for his age at all. Mine did similar.

I tried to get into a pattern of a feed at 7/8pm then a dream feed at 11pm. They will initially wake in the early hours for a feed but gradually take less and less until they drop the feed altogether

Rba2022 · 31/08/2022 14:29

@Xiomara22 @Dipsy12 @Hugasauras thank you. Its just ive been reading up on baby sleep schedules, and a lot recommend he sleeps earlier than 9, and to incorporate a "dream feed".

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Rba2022 · 31/08/2022 14:29

Dipsy12 · 31/08/2022 13:04

That's not bad for his age at all. Mine did similar.

I tried to get into a pattern of a feed at 7/8pm then a dream feed at 11pm. They will initially wake in the early hours for a feed but gradually take less and less until they drop the feed altogether

How did the dream feed go for u?

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GinnyBee · 31/08/2022 21:24

By waiting for him to be older, unfortunately! That’s good for 2 month old already, you shouldn’t expect to much to soon. Lots of sleep schedule nonsense is targeted at American mums that have to go back to work after 6 weeks and need a solution, but it’s not biologically normal for such a young baby to even have a schedule yet. My LO is 16 weeks and he has a rough bedtime around 9.30-10pm that he decided himself, and no other schedule really, he does what he wants.

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